Routes of Wreckage: A Walk and Talk with Peter Nicholls

Join Peter Nicholls, co-founder of the Thames Estuary Sunken Slave Ships Project, for a walk and talk through Gravesend, from the Library and Archives to the site of a previously unrecognised slave ship wreck.

At the site, we’ll hear a story, informed by archival documents and Creole poetics, that reaches for what can be known or imagined about those trafficked on board, and traces the ship’s transition into an oceanic entanglement of wreckage that maps history and memory across a diasporic world.

From the shore of the Thames, we will return inland, following the recovered traces of the ship, until we arrive back at Gravesend Library and Archives.

This event is part of Exodus Crooks why live anywhere else?, which has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Creative Estuary, Gravesham Borough Council, and Ebbsfleet Development Corporation through the Northfleet Place Partnership. With additional support from Northfleet School for Girls.

This event includes a 10-15 minute walk, a pause for 30 minutes, and another 10-15 minute walk back again.