WE ARE NOTTS

In Spring 2025 Rachel Carter and the Legacy Makers were invited to take over BBC Radio Nottinghams, ‘We Are Notts’ programme. Click on the images to hear each of the programme chapters.

Introduction

Artist Rachel Carter will introduce the programme along with Legacy Makers Ethel Anderson and Isalyn Martin.

Chapter 1 - Nottingham’s textile heritage

  • Hear clips from archive recordings of lace makers.

  • Rachel discusses her Framework Knitting and Lace making ancestors

  • The cotton spinning mills and Bright Ideas Nottingham’s heritage project.

  • Meeting the Legacy Makers

  • Discovering the Transatlantic trafficking of Africans

Chapter 2 - Challenging the 5%

  • Looking back on our silent protest in 2022 and Challenging the 5%

  • Starting the project to create the sculpture design

  • Finding the models through Dancing

  • Fundraising for the sculpture

Chapter 3 - Challenging the 5%

  • Reflecting on the unveiling event for the scale model in 2022

  • Hear from the models; Judy Robinson and Legacy Maker Louise Garvey

  • Creating the statue with textiles and digital technologies.

Chapter 4 - A walk around the sculpture

  • Discover the meanings behind some of the elements of the sculpture

  • The braids made by women from across the Midlands

  • The hidden messages “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister”

  • The apron pocket and the journey ‘Jonny’ cake

  • Footprints in the soil, walking in the footsteps of our ancestors

Chapter 5 - The Legacy Makers

Hear from some of the Legacy Makers from the project, recording at the National Justice Museum.

  • Hyacinth Banton - Honouring and celebrating our ancestors

  • Viv Oliver - Celebrating women

  • Winifred Thomas - Education

  • Fatou Marong - Local history

With thanks to the BBC Radio Nottingham team for the use of this audio

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