The Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies is very pleased to welcome Malik Al Nasir (University of Cambridge) to Glasgow. He will be giving a talk about his memoir and research into the Sandbach-Tinne company at 3:15pm on Tuesday 9 May in Room 432, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow, School of Education, 11 Eldon Street Glasgow G3 6NH.

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Malik Al Nasir is a researcher, poet and author from Liverpool. His independent research into his family history has featured on the BBC, the Times and the Wall Street Journal. His writing about his mentor, legendary musician Gil Scott-Heron, was featured in The Guardian.

His current research was recently recognised with the Vice Chancelors Award for Global Social Impact at the University of Cambridge, where he is a doctoral scholar. His project, Kinship Networks and Mercantile Hegemony in the Latter Days of British Slavery – The Case of Sandbach Tinne, c. 1790-1840, examines the long history of a company of enslavers, merchants and innovators whose activities ranged across the British Empire.

Malik's memoir Letters to Gil was published in 2021 by William Collins.

First published: 2 May 2023

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