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		Althea McNish • 2010 see news. • 2009 • Work for Hull Traders featured in exhibition and book by Lesley Jackson, curator and author: Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Post-War Fabrics and Furniture (Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; and ACC Editions). • Work illustrated in Liberty and Co. in the Fifties and Sixties by Anna Buruma (ACC Editions). • The designs of Althea McNish, talk by Lara Goodband, project curator for Hull Traders, on 21 October, at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. "Trinidadian-born Althea McNish - Britain’s first and most distinguished black textile designer - created eight patterns for Hull Traders. This talk examines the vital contribution of her painterly florals to this innovative textile company." Part of the City of Hull’s celebrations for Black History Month. • 2007-8 • Work and career described in 'A Dash of Colour' by Angela Cobbinah in Black History, vol 2, no 1, Summer 2008, p5. • Printed textiles formed part of the exhibition Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery at the Whitworth Art Gallery. • Work illustrated in Silk by Mary Schoeser and others (Yale UP). • Work illustrated in Twentieth Century Pattern Design by Lesley Jackson (Princeton Architectural Press). • 2006 • November: awarded degree of Honorary Doctor of Fine Art by the University of Trinidad and Tobago. John Weiss: design • 2010-11 see news. • 2009 • Exhibited with the Designer Jewellers Group at the Barbican Centre, London, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and at the RWA Gallery, Bristol. • A Crown for the Tree of Life, a talk at the Spiro Ark, London, on recent work for the Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Congregation, with a review of the historical background of synagogue scroll ornaments. Part of the European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage, September. • Designed and made a scroll crown in silver for the Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Congregation. • 2008 • Designed and made a pair of scroll finials in silver for the Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Congregation. John Weiss: history • 2008 • Participated as interviewee and expert in the making of the film 1812: The War We Forgot, a documentary on the War of 1812, co-production of WNED-Buffalo/Toronto, WETA, Washington, DC and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc., with US and Canadian funding. • Research by John Weiss on The Merikens described in 'The Great Escape' by Korkoh Duah, in Black History, vol 2, no 2, Autumn 2008, pp6-7. • 'Taking their freedom by way of the Royal Navy in the War of 1812', a paper given at the 5th International Congress of Maritime History, Greenwich Maritime Institute, UK. • 'The early workforce of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Bermuda: African Americans in transit from slavery to freedom', paper given at the conference War, Empire and Slavery, University of York, UK. • 2007 • 'Sir Alexander Cochrane's first Corps of Colonial Marines: Marie-Galante 1808', US Naval Academy, paper given at the Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, USA. • 'Apprenticeship in the 1807 Slave Trade Act: a novelty and its development', paper given at the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick University, UK. • 'Sir Alexander Cochrane's Trinidad Apprentices: an early application of the Slave Trade Act', paper given to the UK Society for Caribbean Studies, London Metropolitan University, UK.
		photo of Althea McNish by Derek Tamea revn 1 January 2010