Now We Sit With It

Episode 17  - Now We Sit With It 

The title of this episode is taken from a new painting created for permanent display in Calderstones Mansion House by Liverpool-based artist Sumuyya Khader. The artwork responds to new research by a historian and Reader heritage volunteers into links between the Mansion House, its owners and the transatlantic slave economy. In this episode we speak to Robert, one of the volunteer researchers, and to Sumuyya Khader, to hear about the process of uncovering and responding to this research. 

This episode has been funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of ‘Making Meaning at Calderstones’ – The Reader’s two-year project to uncover and celebrate the unique stories of our reading home. 

More information about ‘Now We Sit With It’ 

Calderstones links to transatlantic slavery – what we know (The Reader website) 

Sumuyya Khader 

‘The White Man’s Guilt’ by James Baldwin in Dark Days (Penguin)