The exhibition Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections & Local-Global Journeys – first shown in the Lamb Gallery in 2018 – has been restaged at the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. As part of Black History Month, a special online event is being held on 15 October at 6.30pm, hosted by Dr Susan P Mains (Geography, University of Dundee) and Sam Walker (St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum). It will provide a unique virtual tour of the exhibition, short films by the photographers Varun Baker and Stephen McLaren, and a live Q&A discussion. Places can be booked via Eventbrite.
A view of the landscape at Glen Isla, a sugar plantation once owned by Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean, 6th Baronet of Blackness (1729–1803) . Wedderburn returned rich to Scotland with a black slave, Joseph Knight, who sued in the Court of Session for his freedom.