Does research always need to be a lonely affair? We don’t think so. On 1st May 2011 we hid five hundred golden tickets in Brixton Tate Library, between the pages of select books that reference themes from sugar … Continue reading
These a few of many who helped to forge links between the history and contemporary resonances of Henry’s legacy
We arranged to meet for the first time on Saturday 14 May, at Brixton Tate Library. Everyone introduced themselves, and we took a group portrait under the bust of Henry Tate, which stands outside the library in Windrush Square and lends … Continue reading
On Saturday 28th May we gathered on Windrush Square, where the paving slabs are patterned with sugar cane. Local historian Alan Piper told us a history of Brixton and the Tate Brixton Library. … Continue reading
Our third and final day trip on Henry’s Trail took us to the Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery, in Silvertown. An early archival photograph of the original packaging of Tate Cube Sugars… And Tate & Lyle sugar … Continue reading
Gran-u-late by Melanie Mauthner * Melanie Mauthner is a member of Malika’s Kitchen Poetry Collective. * Yo, Henry time to make amends for slavery, thank you for your library, sugar gravy you liquefied purified into crystals, so … Continue reading