Great Hall Audio Described Tour

Описание: In consultation with an intergenerational panel, an accessibility panel, independent experts and arts and heritage charity Culture&, Revealing the City’s Past is a project to reinterpret two statues of prominent City figures (William Beckford and Sir John Cass) with links to the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans.

The statues are located at the Guildhall, a site inextricably linked to enslavement. As part of the Revealing the City’s Past project, permanent plaques have been installed alongside both statues containing responses by two poets, historical texts and QR codes linking to more extensive online material about the two men depicted in the statues. Importantly, it also represents a shift in narrative, with Black voices represented permanently in these spaces for the first time ever at the Guildhall.

Importantly, it also represents a shift in narrative, with Black voices represented permanently in these spaces for the first time ever at the Guildhall.

This video is an audio described tour of the Guildhall Great Hall in the City of London and it is where the Beckford statue is located.

Authored by Elaine Lillian Joseph, and peer reviewed by Dr Carol Ann Dixon. The text was commissioned by the City of London Corporation as part of the ‘Revealing the City’s Past’ project.

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