{"id":1532,"date":"2020-10-06T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:16","slug":"moving-jamaica-a-virtual-tour-and-online-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/moving-jamaica-a-virtual-tour-and-online-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Jamaica &#8211; a virtual tour and online discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition <em>Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections &amp; Local-Global Journeys<\/em> &#8211; first shown in the Lamb Gallery in 2018 &#8211; 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&amp;A discussion. Places can be booked via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/moving-jamaica-a-virtual-tour-and-online-discussion-tickets-120365048099?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1533\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Glen Isla, photograph by Stephen McLaren\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/McLaren.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the landscape at Glen Isla, a sugar plantation once owned by Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean, 6th Baronet of Blackness (1729\u20131803) . Wedderburn returned rich to Scotland with a black slave, Joseph Knight, who sued in the Court of Session for his freedom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections &amp; Local-Global Journeys &#8211; first shown in the Lamb Gallery in 2018 &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-museums","category-photography"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}