{"id":1649,"date":"2026-10-07T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:56:48","slug":"black-knight-or-blackness-in-the-archives-feature-for-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2026\/10\/07\/black-knight-or-blackness-in-the-archives-feature-for-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Knight or Blackness in the Archives &#8211; Feature for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Black History Month, our stellar PhD student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuarthallfoundation.org\/scholars-and-fellows\/georgie-anderson\/\">Georgie Anderson<\/a> has launched a YouTube episode with Bodleian Libraries on Moriaen, a medieval black knight:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you heard of a medieval black knight from the Arthurian world? If not, meet Moriaen, the protagonist from a Dutch chivalric romance by the same name, and researched by Georgie Anderson, a PhD candidate from the University of Kent. The story of Moriaen is just one of many stories giving us insights into the role and representation of people of colour in the medieval period. Georgie is a visiting scholar at the Bodleian Libraries and this video is part of our series, We Are Our History. Georgie Anderson&#8217;s research is funded by CHASE AHRC and The Stuart Hall Foundation. We would like to thank the KB National Library of the Netherlands for the image of their manuscript of Moriaen. Movie clips come from Excalibur, 1981 movie, under fair dealing exception to the UK copyright law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3T5jbaYw4U4?si=baRQLtrXrThXV598\">YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Black History Month, our stellar PhD student, Georgie Anderson has launched a YouTube episode with Bodleian Libraries on Moriaen, a medieval black knight: &#8220;Have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2026\/10\/07\/black-knight-or-blackness-in-the-archives-feature-for-black-history-month\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82691,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}