The Cunard Yanks (2005, 30 mins.) and speaker Dave Cotterill.

Bristol premiere of a film already shown in Liverpool and New York to popular aclaim. In the early 1950s young, white, Liverpool seamen who worked the Cunard Line, were sailing to New York. Although they did not know it at the time, they about to collide with the explosion of a new cultural scene in the U.S.A. The great migration of Afro-Americans to the northern states and the cities of Chicago, Detroit and New York had brought new music, dance and fashion to the streets. One of the reoccurring themes of this History Week is the importance of the ship as conduit for information via the crew 'below decks'. Thus a small group of cooks, pantry-men and waiters who were later to be nick-named "The Cunard Yanks" would act as this conduit and consequently change the cultural history of Liverpool. £3:00