We will be closing the GPI search room and office from Friday 3 August and will reopen on Monday 20 August 2018. 

If you wish to book research appointments for the week of 20 August, please contact us prior to 3 August.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused during this period.

The GPI in collaboration with Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions welcomes you to an evening of discussion and reading with Anthony Joseph and Nicole-Rachelle Moore on Thursday 12 July at 7:00pm. Joseph's new work 'Kitch A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon' (Peepal tree Press) looks at the life of the Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Kitchener who arrived in England in 1948 on the SS Empire Windrush.

The GPI along with so many others around the world send condolences to the family of Winnie Madikizela Mandela who died yesterday in Soweto South Africa at the age of 81.

While often described as "a polarizing figure", there is no uncertainty about the pivotal role Mrs. Madikizela Mandela played during the many years of anti-apartheid struggle in her country.

Jay Bernard, Poet in Residence at the George Padmore Institute (GPI) for 3 months in Autumn 2016, has won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. Jay won the award for Surge:Side A, a moving and intimate performance at Camden Roundhouse. The show was produced by Speaking Volumes. Surge:Side A was formed out of the poems and essay Jay created during the residency at the GPI when researching archives relating to the New Cross Fire and New Cross Massacre Action Committee. For more information see:

Dream To Change the World The Life and Legacy of John La Rose was the GPI's exhibition which ran from May to August 2015 at Islington Museum.

We will be closed for 2 weeks from 5-16 March 2018 to allow for work on our archive storage areas.