Marika Sherwood (born 1937) is a Hungarian-born historian, researcher, educator and author based in

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. She is a co-founder of the

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Biography

Sherwood was born in 1937 into a

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living in

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. With the surviving members of her family (many had died during

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), she emigrated to

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, in 1948. She was briefly employed in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

(then under Australian control) for a period before moving back to Sydney to attend university as a

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. Sherwood eventually emigrated to

with her son after divorcing her husband in 1965, finding employment as a

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. There, she learned of the

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faced by

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students in the educational system, which spurred an interest in Sherwood to research the history of the

African diaspora The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were e ...

. This resolve was strengthened by five-year period of academic research in

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, from 1980 to 1985. Sherwood has a desk, but is not on the staff of the

Institute of Commonwealth Studies The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, founded in 1949, is the sole postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented ...

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. In 1991, with

Hakim Adi Hakim Adi is a British historian and scholar who specializes in African affairs. He is the first African-British historian to become a professor of history in the UK. He has written widely on Pan-Africanism and the modern political history of A ...

and other colleagues she founded what is now known as the

(BASA), in order to encourage research and disseminate information, and to campaign on education issues. This is ongoing. In 2007, she published ''After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807''. Stephen Shapiro, writing in the Ohio State and Miami University history journal ''Origins'', described the book as "provocative" and "a worthwhile read" for "those interested in British or African history." In 2010, she invited to contribute to the Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Colloquium in

Accra Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...

, convened by the African Union and the

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. Apart from her formal publications listed below, she has also contributed to a number of films, radio programs, conferences. Sherwood set up Savannah Press, a publisher for some of her books "at cost" prices. In 2017, Sherwood was planning to give a speech about treatment of the Palestinians during the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

's Israel Apartheid Week under the title "You're doing to Palestinians what the Nazis did to me". The Israeli embassy intervened, contacting the university with concerns that the title violated the International Holocaust Remembrance Association's definition of antisemitism, adopted by the UK government. Manchester University censored the title and put conditions on the speech. She has written nine entries in the ''

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:'' Dusé Mohamed (1866–1945), journalist and playwright; Peter McFarren Blackman (1909–1993), political activist; Robert Broadhurst (1859/60–1948), pan-African nationalist leader;

William Davidson William or Bill Davidson may refer to: Businessmen * Bill Davidson (businessman) (1922–2009), Michigan businessman and sports team owner ** William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, named in honor of Bill Davidson * William Davidson ( ...

(1786–1820), conspirator; George Daniel Ekarte (1896/7–1964), minister and community worker; Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe (1893–1944), writer and anti-colonialist;

Claudia Jones Claudia Vera Jones (; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and black national ...

(1915–1964), communist and journalist; Ras Tomasa Makonnen (c. 1900–1983), political activist; and

Henry Sylvester Williams Henry Sylvester-Williams (24 March 1867 or 15 February 186926 March 1911) was a Trinidadian lawyer, activist, councillor and writer who was among the founders of the Pan-African movement. As a young man, Williams travelled to the United States ...

(1869–1911), pan-Africanist.

Selected publications

Books

*''World War II: Colonies and Colonials'', Savannah Press] , 2013. *''The Life and Times of Albert Makaula-White, an African Farmer in Kent 1904–1937'', Savannah Press, 2012 **Reviews: *''

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: Visits abroad April 1964 – February 1965'', UK: Savannah Press, 2010, ; USA: Tsehai Publishers, 2011. *''The Origins of Pan-Africanism:

and the African Diaspora'',

Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and ...

, 2010. **Reviews: *(with Kim Sherwood) ''Britain, the slave trade and slavery, from 1562 to the 1880s'', Savannah Press, 2007. *''After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807'',

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, 2007. *(with Hakim Adi) ''Pan-African History: political figures from Africa and the diaspora since 1787'', Routledge, 2003. **Reviews: *''

: a life in exile'',

Lawrence & Wishart Lawrence & Wishart is a British publishing company formerly associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain. It was formed in 1936, through the merger of Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party's press, and Wishart Ltd, a family-owned Left-wing ...

, 2000. **Review: *''Ernest Bowen and Printers' Trade Unions in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1927–1941'',:Savannah Press, 1999. *(with Martin Spafford) ''Whose Freedom were Africans, Caribbeans and Indians fighting for in World War II?'', Savannah Press/BASA, 1999. *''Kwame Nkrumah: the Years Abroad 1935–1947'', Freedom Publications (Ghana), 1996. **Review: *(with Hakim Adi) ''The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited'',

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, 1995. *''Manchester and the 1945

Pan-African Congress The Pan-African Congress was a series of eight meetings, held in 1919 in Paris (1st Pan-African Congress), 1921 in London, Brussels and Paris (2nd Pan-African Congress), 1923 in London (3rd Pan-African Congress), 1927 in New York City (4th Pan-Afr ...

'', Savannah Press, 1995. *''Pastor Daniels Ekarté and the African Churches Mission'', Savannah Press, 1994. *(with Bob Rees) ''Black Peoples of the Americas'',

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, 1992. *''Black Peoples in the Americas — a handbook for teachers'', Savannah Press, 1992. *''Women Under the Sun'' (African Women in Politics and Production — a bibliography), IFAA, London, 1988. *''Many Struggles (West Indian Workers and Service Personnel in Britain 1939–1945)'',

Karia Press Norris Chrisleventon "Buzz" Johnson (2 November 1951 – 11 February 2014), generally known as Buzz Johnson, was a Tobago-born publisher and activist who in the 1970s relocated to England, UK. There he set up a small publishing company called Kar ...

, 1985. *''The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland'', OC Publishers, 1982.

Articles

On peoples of African and Asian origins / descent in the UK *"Two Pan-African political activists emanating from Edinburgh University: Drs

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and

Richard Akinwande Savage Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935) was a prominent physician, journalist and politician in Lagos, Nigeria during the colonial era. Early years Richard Akinwande Savage was born in 1874, the son of a successful merchant in Lagos descended fr ...

", in Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence (eds), ''Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa'' (Leiden: Brill, 2014). **"

Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British ...

", ''Total Politics'', June 2011. *"Africans in Britain 2000 years ago", ''

New African ''New African'' is an English-language monthly news magazine based in London. Published since 1966, it is read by many people across the African continent and the African diaspora. It claims to be the oldest pan-African monthly in English, as well ...

'', October 2010. *"

Krishna Menon Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, politician, and non-career diplomat. He was described by some as the second most powerful man in India, after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawa ...

, Parliamentary Labour Party Candidate for Dundee 1939–1940", ''Scottish Labour History'', vol. 42, 2007. *"Lascar Struggles against discrimination in Britain 1923–1945: the work of N. J. Upadhyaya and Surat Alley", ''The Mariner’s Mirror'', 90/4, 2004. *"Riots, lynchings, fascists and immigrants: what’s changed?" ''

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'', October 2003. *"Lascars in Glasgow and the West of Scotland during World War II", ''Scottish Labour History Journal'', vol. 38, 2003. *"Black People in Tudor England", ''

History Today ''History Today'' is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and pub ...

'', October 2003, . *"Lynching in Britain", ''History Today'', 49/3 March 1999. *"Blacks in the Gordon Riots", ''History Today'', December 1997. *"The Comintern, the CPGB, Colonies and Black Britons 1920 – 1938", ''Science & Society'', Spring, 1996. *"Quakers and Colonials 1930–1950", ''Immigrants & Minorities'', July 1991. *"Racism and Resistance: Cardiff in the 1930s and ‘40s", ''

Llafur Llafur (''Labour'' in Welsh) – the full name of which is Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society – was founded in 1970 as ''Llafur: The Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History'' to promote the study of the history of the working peop ...

(Welsh Labour History Journal)'', September 1991. *"Race, Nationality and Employment among Lascar Seamen 1660 to 1945", ''New Community'', January 1991. *"Ticket of Leave", ''History Today'', August 1990. *"The War Against Blacks in Britain", ''Freedomways'', 4th Quarter 1982. On the trade in enslaved Africans, and slavery *Legitimate' traders, the building of empires and the long-term after-effects in Africa", in T. Green (ed.), ''Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial Western Africa'', British Academy/OUP, 2012. *"Slavery: the Atlantic trade and Arab slavery", ''New African'', October 2012. *"The trade in enslaved Africans", in F. Brennan & John Parker, ''Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’'', Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2011. *"The British illegal slave trade 1808 – 1830", ''British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies'', 31/2, 2008. *"Manchester, Liverpool and Slavery", ''North West Labour History Journal'', #32, September 2007. *"Slaves and slavery, 1807–2007: the past in the present",

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23 March 2007.
*"The Nefarious Trade", ''

'', March 2007. *"Britain, the slave trade and slavery, 1808 – 1843", ''

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'' 46/2, October–December 2004. *"Perfidious Albion: Britain, the USA and slavery in the 1840s and 1860s", ''Contributions to Black Studies'', 13/14 1995/6 (published 1999). On Pan-Africanism / Kwame Nkrumah *"Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism 1942 – 1958", in Lazare Ki-Zerbo (ed.), ''Hands Off Africa'' (forthcoming, 2013). *"The Pan-African Conference, Kumasi, 1953", in T. Manuh and A. Sawyerr (eds), ''The Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Colloquium Proceedings'', Accra: Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Committee, 2013. *"

George Padmore George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author. He left his native Trinidad in 1924 to study medicine in the United States, where he also joined the Com ...

and Kwame Nkrumah: a tentative outline of their relationship" in Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis (eds), ''George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary'', Ian Randle Publications, 2009. *"Pan-African Conferences, 1900 – 1953: what did Pan-Africanism mean?" In Charles Quist-Adade and Frances Chiang (eds), ''From Colonization to Globalization'', Dayspring Publishing, 2011/ ''Journal of Pan-African Studies'', 4/10, 2012. *"Nkrumah: the Student: Years in London 1945–1947", ''Immigrants & Minorities'', September, 1993. On Africa / Africans *"The African Diaspora in Europe", in ''Encyclopaedia of the World’s Minorities'', Routledge, 2006. *"Jamaicans and Barbadians in the Province of Freedom: Sierra Leone 1802–1841", ''Caribbean Studies'', 13/2–3, 1998. *"

Elder Dempster Elder Dempster Lines was a UK shipping company that traded from 1932 to 2000, but had its origins in the mid-19th century. Founders Alexander Elder Alexander Elder was born in Glasgow in 1834. He was the son of David Elder, who for many ye ...

and West Africa 1891 – 1940: the genesis of underdevelopment", ''

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'', 30/3, 1997. *There is no new deal for the blackman in San Francisco': African attempts to influence the founding conference of the United Nations April – July 1945", ''International Journal of African Historical Studies'', 29/1, 1996. *"Strikes! African Seamen, Elder Dempster and the Government, 1940–1942", ''Immigrants & Minorities'', July 1994. On education
"Racism by omission"
''History Extra'', ''

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'', 29 December 2009. *"Have we progressed since the Lawrence Enquiry?", summer issue, ''Race Equality Teaching'', 27/3 2009.
"Miseducation and Racism"
''Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal'', February 2009. *"Black School Teachers in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", ''History of Education Researcher'', #.81, May 2008. *"Teaching Black history: the struggle continues",

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br>(November 2007).
*There is so much more to the history of Black peoples than slavery…, ''Race Equality Teaching'', 25/2, 2007. *"Racism in Education?", ''race equality teaching'', 22/3 summer 2004. *"Race, Empire and Education: teaching racism", ''Race & Class'' 42/3, 2001. *"Education and the Lawrence Inquiry", ''Multicultural Teaching'', 18/2, 2000. *"Engendering racism: history and history teachers in English schools", ''Research in African Literatures'', 30/1, February 1999. *"Sins of omission and commission: history in English schools and struggles for change", ''Multicultural Teaching'', Spring 1998, *"The Dangers of Ethnocentrism", ''Teaching History'', January 1996, *"SOS: Is Anybody Listening?", ''Teaching History'', June 1994. On racism *"White Myths, Black Omissions: the historical origins of racism in Britain", ''International Journal of Historical Teaching, Learning and Research'', 3/1, January 2003. *"It's Not a Question of Racism; a case study of institutional racism 1941–1943", ''Immigrants & Minorities'', July 1985. Other *"William G. Allen in Britain"
''Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World'', vol. 2, issue 2, winter/spring 2011.
https://ercw.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/ercw/article/download/57/53 with Kathy Chater), "The

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Family Across Three Continents", ''Proceedings of the Huguenot Society'', 28/3, 2005. *"

in Manchester, 1964", ''North West History Journal'', #27, 2002. *"India at the Founding of the United Nations", ''International Studies'' (India), 33/4, 1996. *"The UN: Caribbean and African-American attempts to influence the founding conference in San Francisco, 1945", ''Journal of Caribbean History'', 29/1, 1996. *Diplomatic Platitudes': the Atlantic Charter, the United Nations and colonial independence", *''Immigrants and Minorities'', September 1996. *"Walter White and the British: a lost opportunity", ''Contributions to Black Studies'', Nos. 9/10, 1990–1992.

References

External links

Savannah Press website.

The Black and Asian Studies Association website.

"Dr Marika Sherwood at Discover Black History: Beyond the Windrush".

''Canterbury Times'', 2 November 2012.
Ms Marika Sherwood: School of Advanced Studies, University of London
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sherwood, Marika 1937 births Australian Jews Australian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent British Africanists British Jews British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent British publishers (people) Historians of Africa Hungarian Africanists Hungarian emigrants to Australia Hungarian emigrants to England Hungarian Jews Hungarian pan-Africanists Living people People from Sydney Writers from Budapest