Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this film, Dr Grace Redhead (rebrand.ly/AboutGraceRedhead) (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter) in conversation with Independent curator and Heritage project coordinator for the Sickle Cell Society, Alinta Sara (rebrand.ly/AboutAlintaSara), about the sickle cell archive which was recently acquired by Wellcome Collection. Grace completed her PhD at University College London on ‘Histories of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Postcolonial Britain, 1948–1997 and co-produced with Alinta, ‘Our Journey, Our Story: History and Memory of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Britain, 1950–2000’(rebrand.ly/AboutSickleCellSociety), an exhibition hosted at the Black Cultural Archives in 2021.
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In this film, Dr Grace Redhead (rebrand.ly/AboutGraceRedhead) (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter) in conversation with Independent curator and Heritage project coordinator for the Sickle Cell Society, Alinta Sara (rebrand.ly/AboutAlintaSara), about the sickle cell archive which was recently acquired by Wellcome Collection. Grace completed her PhD at University College London on ‘Histories of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Postcolonial Britain, 1948–1997 and co-produced with Alinta, ‘Our Journey, Our Story: History and Memory of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Britain, 1950–2000’(rebrand.ly/AboutSickleCellSociety), an exhibition hosted at the Black Cultural Archives in 2021.
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/wellcomecollection
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/explorewellcome
See us on Instagram: instagram.com/wellcomecollection
