Tag: Madge Dresser

  • Roy Hackett

    Roy Hackett

    AUDIO: Madge Dresser and Julie Tang interview Roy Hackett in November 1985. (3 minutes only) Below is a transcript to a longer interview. Roy Hackett – interview with Testimony Films The team at Testimony interview Roy for their Hope and Glory series. All rights remain with Testimony Films , who kindly supplied this footage for…

  • Paul Stephenson at Wesley Chapel, Bristol BHM 2005

    Paul Stephenson at Wesley Chapel, Bristol BHM 2005

    Paul speaks of the Bristol bus boycott as my fight. At this event, he speaks about the history of Black History Month, the connection to Bristol and translatlantic slavery; his English-born black family going back 200 years; his public fights in the 1960s and the needs for education, especially for black children. The talk at…

  • Madge Dresser Interview

    Madge Dresser Interview

    A short clip from an interview with Dr. Madge Dresser in 2011. Here she explains about what piqued her interest in the story after arriving in Bristol and motivated her to pursue the project.  The pamphlet , ‘Black and White on the Buses’ was the result, which remains the key text for understanding  the history of…

  • Madge Dresser Archive

    Madge Dresser Archive

      Dr Madge DresserBA (California), MSc (LSE), MSc (Bristol), PgDip, Radio, Film and Television (Bristol), DPhil (UWE),  FRHistS. Dr Madge Dresser was a Reader in History at the University of The West of England. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her work is concerned with questions of national identity,…

  • Owen Henry

    Owen Henry

    Madge Dresser interviews Owen Henry in 1985.

  • Owen Henry – Animated Story by Emma Grant

    Owen Henry – Animated Story by Emma Grant

    https://vimeo.com/29772030 Animation: Emma Grant,  Interview and Recording: Madge Dresser, Testimony:  Owen Henry. Thanks to Madge Dresser for the recording – and all her work and generosity.