Eric will appear in one of the episodes of Sky HISTORY’s Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter.
Starts Monday 18th April 2022, 9pm.
Further information: https://www.history.co.uk/shows/ross-kemp-shipwreck-treasure-hunter
BBC Radio 4’s Classified Britain – the heartbeat of history in the front page small ads of old UK newspapers.
The Edinburgh Evening Courant, Saturday April 14th 1827
Eric discusses the adverts for passenger sailing to London and the Baltic from Leith in 1827.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bc2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009kqz
Pupils from schools around Scotland delve into their local history and produce their own radio documentary. This week, taking over the microphones are the Primary 5 pupils of Leith Primary School in Edinburgh as they set out to discover more about their community’s links to Scotland’s whaling industry.
The story begins in Leith in 1750 as maritime historian Eric Graham tells of the first whalers to leave for the Arctic to hunt the Greenland whale. But it’s a journey that ends in the south, in the Antarctic, over two hundred years later as the pupils hear the memories first hand from some of the whalers who left Leith bound for South Georgia.
Dr Eric Graham introduces us to Leith’s other royal yacht, no, not Britannia but the King of Thailand’s SY Maha Chakri, built by Ramage and Fergusons there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001348
“The female is more deadly than the male” – with history enthusiast Susan Morrison. Dr Eric Graham tells Susan the horrid saga of a cargo of female convicts bound for Australia on the ill-fated ship commanded by Captain John Hunter of Ayr.
Eric is a contributor to a two part BBC documentary Slavery: Scotland’s Hidden Shame presented by David Hayman.
BBC2 Scotland on 6 and 13 November 2018, at 9-10pm
BBC TWO – Slavery Scotland’s Hidden Shame
City Arts Centre
Market Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DE
City Arts Centre
For Black History Month in October 2018 The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) and the City Art Centre would like to invite you to a series of afternoon talks that will give an insight into Scotland’s history. The talks are free and take place at The City Art Centre.
Dr Eric Graham will discuss the Black faced minstrel shows from America at a critical time in the battle for “hearts & minds” on the issue of slavery in the southern states of America – in the two decades prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The great emancipation campaigner Frederick Douglass, then in Scotland, denounced the shows as rooted in racist bigotry.
Further info and booking here: www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000pnl
Time Travels
Susan Morrison goes to Ayr with maritime historian Dr Eric Graham, to find out about the grand Bruce dynasty plan to invade Ireland and grab a crown for Robert Bruce’s younger brother Sir Edward. If it had worked, the two countries might have been united.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000pnl
Time Travels
Susan Morrison finds out more about the darker side of Scottish settlement in Australia. Moving back to the 18th century with Eric Graham, we\’re on the trail of a gallant and dashing privateer Luke Ryan who scourged the coast of Scotland and gained the favour of Marie Antoinette.
Conference for Kirkcaldy Civic Society.
Speakers include:
Dr Eric Graham: The Bounty Hunters and the Innuit
Dr. Rob David: The Story of the “Abram”, a Kirkcaldy Whaling Ship
Matt Ylitalo B.Sc. B.A. M. Litt: Steamships, Stowaways and Smithsonian Polar Bear
Sonja Heinrich: From Whaling to Whale Science – why whales matter and how we study them
Jo Woolf (RSGS): Shackleton\’s Trek for Life to the Graves of Whales
Also – Kirkcaldy\’s Beached Whales/Leith Harbour and Scottish Involvement in the Antartic 20th Century Whale Hunting
Tickets
Tickets cost £10 and can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kirkcaldy-and-the-whale-tickets
