Explore Your Nursing Family History for Black History Month (Virtual Event)
Nursing often runs in families. Perhaps your grandmother or great-uncle was a nurse. But how would you go…
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60 Years On: The legacy of Martin Luther King’s first London sermon
Martin Luther King preached in London for the first time on the 29th October 1961, at Bloomsbury Central…
Windrush Generation Legacy Association (WGLA) exhibition – “Gaan a Farin”
Black History Month, a time to reflect upon the contributions that people of colour have made within their…
Black Stories Southampton – a talk by Don John for October Books
Black Stories Southampton is a series of true accounts which aim to increase knowledge of the experiences of…
The Changing Face of Nursing: Black Nurses in Surrey Hospitals by Dr Catherine Babikian
From its launch, the National Health Service relied on the labour of thousands of nurses, doctors, and health…
Staffordshire Libraries to host online Black History Month animated film season
Staffordshire Libraries to host online Black History Month animated film season and are delighted to be working again…
Windrush Celebration of Black Heroes and Legacies during Black History Month 2021
We wish to improve the social, health and well-being of our beneficiaries. Our activities impact education, self-knowledge, motivation,…
Transatlantic Black Rights Activism / Labour Movement Pamphlets
The Summer Scholars season explores the broad and exciting range of research being conducted in the Americas collections…
Does #BlackLivesMatter Still Matter To The UK Music Industry?
Does #BlackLivesMatter Still Matter To The UK Music Industry? In this third and final instalment, BBM/BMC/RE:IMI’s Kwaku opines…
British Black Music Still Finding Its Feet?
It’s July, and we are in the middle of British Black Music Month (BBMM), an annual June-July window…
Celebrating UK Reggae Runnings Tinged With Sadness And Disappointment
Celebrating UK Reggae Runnings Tinged With Sadness And Disappointment Today is International Reggae Day (IRD). It’s a global…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA
Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets,…
Zoom This Monday Into London’s Wonderful And Varied Representations Of Africans And History
History consultant Kwaku presents a fun, inclusive, interactive, family-friendly journey of discovery of African history and representations across…
Soho Theatre Celebrates Re-opening With The Premiere Of The Verity Bargate Award Winning Play Shedding A Skin
Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award winning play Shedding A Skin written by Amanda Wilkin has been chosen to…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA – 20 May – 11 July 2021
A solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar,…
COMING HOME: Jem Wharton – Portrait of a Liverpool boxing legend on display Liverpool 18th May – 4 July
James ‘Jem’ Wharton was one of the most successful boxers in Britain in the first half of the…
Rising Star: Charles Entsie talks about his debut play No Strings Attached at the King’s Head Theatre
Charles is an actor and writer from Wood Green, London. His first play, No Strings Attached, is being…
BTWSC/African Histories Revisited Highlights The British African Presence On London History Day 2021
Community organisation BTWSC/African Histories Revisited is once again supporting Historic England’s London History Day with a screening of…
EXHIBITION: Portrait of Black Britain
Portrait of Black Britain is a major public exhibition at Manchester Arndale that will profile a range of Black…
Books, Violence and Resistance – Eric Huntley
Black bookshops in 1970/80s Britain were few and far between. Those that did exist were subject to continued…
