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Mary Prince A Slave 15 Mar 2013 | 01:41 am
Mary Prince (1788-1833) was a Bermudian woman, born into slavery in Bermuda. The published story of her slavery was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in England and the bo...
Books about Black British History 11 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
A reading list of books related to the ongoing Black presence in Britain, Slavery, colonialism and black Settlement in the U.K The list is by no means exhaustive! Books about Black British History Sta...
Caribbean Women in WW2 24 Feb 2013 | 06:51 am
Caribbean Women in WW2 Britain There were plenty Caribbean Women serving in WW2. When we think of the British Armed Forces, there is often a tendency to think exclusively of men. In the past this has...
Black British History Must Feature throughout the School Curriculum 18 Feb 2013 | 06:30 pm
When the Government of the day start to role out their ministers, in defence of a topic that they have already managed to largely keep out of the mainstream agenda, you know something’s afoot. Perhap...
Andrew Watson – Black Scottish Footballer 15 Feb 2013 | 04:10 am
Andrew Watson was the perhaps, world’s first black international football player, capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882 and considered as one of the top ten most important players of t...
Black Loyalists in 18th Century London 14 Feb 2013 | 04:06 am
It was during the War of Independence in the colony of America that Britain gained herself these unlikely allies. Black loyalists fought for Britain against the American colonists. Free blacks were jo...
Ending The Confusion About Peoples War Carnival Band & Peoples World In London 14 Feb 2013 | 03:40 am
It is fitting that on Carnival Tuesday we should be writing to set the record straight and put down an accurate historical record. Ever since the end of Peoples War Carnival Band in 1998 there has bee...
Finding African Ancestors in the Caribbean 11 Feb 2013 | 04:37 am
Windrush Foundation presents its first community event for 2013 on Saturday 16 February. It will bring together people who are interested in finding relatives who lived between 1800 and 1900 in the C...
Fleeing Malians have nowhere to run to, says new report 24 Jan 2013 | 01:00 am
In a briefing paper released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), thousands of people have been displaced since the military intervention on the 10th January, joining an estima...
Jeff Green Seeks info on African American Fugitive 1850s 23 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
Contributed Email from Historian Jeffrey Green African American Fugitive My latest entry on my website (put Jeffrey Green Historian into your search engine) is page 107 and concerns fugitive slave J...
