Norma Gregory
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Norma Gregory (B.A, PGCE, M.A) is an historian and author. Born in 1969 in Nottingham and the daughter of Jamaican migrants who came to Nottingham in the early 1960s, Norma Gregory uses her love of social history, literature and the arts to produce publications and community educational projects. Norma was educated in London and Nottingham: at St Mary’s University, Twickenham; the Institute of Education University of London/UCL and Nottingham University.
As founder of Nottingham News Centre CIC in 2013, Norma has sponsored many events and projects including the first Blue Heritage Plaque to a person of African descent in Nottingham, dedicated to the entrepreneur George Africanus (c1763-1834) in October 2014. She was also project coordinator of the Nottingham Carnival (HLF) Heritage Project in association with Tuntum Housing Association, Nottingham and is currently project coordinator for her own HLF project titled, Miners of African Caribbean Heritage, Narratives from Nottinghamshire.
Norma is currently working with the BBC to produce a programme about the experiences of black miners of Nottinghamshire through her research findings. Norma has written and published articles and academic papers concerning her topics of interest being: black British literary, social and industrial history, black feminist theology/literature (see http://nottinghamnewscentre.com/normagregory/ for complete listings). Her latest publication, Crooked Carousel, Selected Poetry (Nottingham News Centre Publications, 2016), aims at sharing postmodern, poetic expressions and experiences relating to repression, abandonment and resilience, expressed through black British, womanist perspectives. Norma’s first book titled, Jamaicans in Nottingham, Narratives and Reflections (Hansib Publications, 2015) has been widely acclaimed as a valuable contribution to British social and cultural, literary history.
