#SaveGoldsmiths BCA pens letter to the Council & Senior Management Team at Goldsmiths, University of London

This year marks Black Cultural Archives’ 40th anniversary, and since our inception, we have been dedicated to ensuring that Black British history and culture is adequately represented at all levels of society. Our charitable purpose is to educate the United Kingdom public and therefore we recognise the importance of embedding Black history at all levels within the education system and have been focussing on engaging with partners in the Higher Education sector, to bring new research and new stories about our shared histories to everyone.

Recently, Goldsmiths, University of London announced job cuts targeting its English and History departments, which would affect courses in Black British and Caribbean Literature, Queer and Black British History (the UK’s only course of its kind), and Critical Theory.

Read our full letter below, to the Council & Senior Management team in support to "halt the decimation” of the departments.

Read the original petition, written by academics, researchers, and artists who have been acquainted with Goldsmiths in various ways.