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Yorkshire Dales

Dales exhibition explores black and Asian history

31 October 2007

A new exhibition in the Yorkshire Dales will explore the ‘untold stories’ of black and Asian people in the area.

Held at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, the exhibition – entitled The Hidden History of the Dales: People and Places Waiting to be Discovered – features vibrant costumes made by Hughbon Condor for the Huddersfield and Leeds Carnival.

Coinciding with Black History Month, which is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the act that abolished the British slave trade, the exhibition will run until 15 November.

Museum manager Fiona Rosher said: ‘With so many Yorkshire people employed in the transatlantic slave trade and in the plantation economies that it supported in the 17th and 18th centuries, this area’s economy grew enormously.

‘One of the really exciting aspects of this exhibition has been the way it has acted as a catalyst for people from within and outside the area to find out more about their own ancestry and their links with the British trade in enslaved Africans.’

The museum was reopened earlier this month by Professor Tim Thornton, a member of the Board of Museums, Libraries and Archives Yorkshire.

 
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