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Black History Month

2025 LISTINGS

Manchester Wednesday 2 April

Malik Nashad Sharpe – Goner

The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless…

Bromley Thursday 3 April

Teaching Information Event

Join us for an informal chat about the different routes into teaching and the pathways available to gain Qualified Teacher Status…

Manchester Saturday 5 April

The George Michael Singers: 2025 Live

The ultimate celebration of George Michael‘s music, brought to you by the singers who performed and recorded with him…

Cardiff Tuesday 8th April

The George Michael Singers

The ultimate celebration of George Michael’s music, brought to you by the singers who performed and recorded with…

Thomas Clarkson, ‘Cabinet of Freedom’, Anti-slave trade campaign chest, 1787—8. Reproduced and used with the permission of the Trustees of the Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Cambridge Thursday 10 April

The Rebel From Wisbech

In this lunchtime lecture, join Sarah Coleman – former Articles for Change Project Curator at Wisbech & Fenland…

Northampton Friday 11 April

The Real Thing

The Real Thing, with original vocalists Chris Amoo & Dave Smith, are on tour promoting their first new album…

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ARY1E8 paul boateng labour mp portrait at the labour conference bournemouth uk 2004. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.

Paul Boateng: Breaking Barriers, Building Legacies

There are moments in history when the course shifts, when a figure emerges who doesn’t just walk through…


1986: Diane Abbott, the new labour MP for Hackney and Stoke Newington makes history today (12/6/87). Miss Abbott, 32, a Cambridge graduate and a member of Labour's hard left, becomes the country's first black woman MP. Picture taken 18/2/86 when she was an equality officer for the union ACTT.

Diane Abbott: A Legacy of Courage, Change, and Endurance

In a political landscape that often marginalises those who dare to be different, Diane Abbott has stood tall…


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2M0FXCW Sir Geoff Palmer, leader of Edinburgh's Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group, stands alongside a plaque commemorating the historic Scottish slavery case, Knight v Wedderburn, during an installation ceremony at the Court of Session at Parliament House in Edinburgh, to mark the case's contribution to tackling slavery. Picture date: Tuesday December 6, 2022.

Joseph Knight v. John Wedderburn: A Defining Moment in Scotland’s Struggle with Slavery

The story of Joseph Knight isn’t simply the story of a man seeking his freedom in an 18th-century…


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