Tionne Parris

Small Group Project 2024-25

Society for Black British Historians

A Society of Black British historians, run for and by us, is a learned society for scholars of Black British and/or Black diasporic heritage, with the aim of improving retention and admission of students from these marginalised backgrounds. Adopting a similar framework to the organisation, Museum Detox, the Society will provide an autonomous space for intellectual nourishment, networking, peer to peer support and institutional crisis management for Black historians in, and of, Britain.

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Areas of interest

History Black Radical Thought Black Power Movement Activism Colonialism Capitalism Gender Public History Race

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Biography

Tionne Parris is a PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire, and a graduate of the University of Dundee, holding an MA Honours Undergraduate and Masters degree in History.

Tionne's current PhD research concerns the ideological connections between Black Radical Women of the early 20th Century and the Black Power Movement of the latter half of the 20th Century. Tionne is interested primarily in the transfer of tactics and ideology, as well as the interpersonal and intergenerational exchanges between activists.

Tionne is also a coordinator at the Young Historians Project – a non-profit organisation formed by young people encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25