History PhD student partners National Library of Scotland on football project

The National Library of Scotland has partnered with Yesternight Productions Director, and St Catharine's PhD student, Malik Al Nasir, to develop a pilot project in Glasgow based on Andrew Watson, the world’s first Black International footballer.

Poet, activist and scholar Malik Al Nasir (formerly Mark Watson) is an ancestral cousin of the 19th–century sportsman. Mr Al Nasir’s considerable body of work includes award-winning projects based upon his academic research exploring his ancestry. His work also explores how his personal story up to the present day is bound up in the UK’s legacy of enslavement and colonialism, of which the negative effects are still evident.

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