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Sunday, 25 September 2022

Review: Keshia N. Abraham & John Woolf (2022) Black Victorians: Hidden in History

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I had the pleasure of being sent an advance reading copy of Black Victorians: Hidden in History . The introductory email claimed “ Black Vic...
Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Where'd Me Dad's Love of Country Music Come From ?

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 I met the musician and educator professor Nate Holder at the Black British Book Festival we had a good old chat black music and history ...
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Monday, 29 November 2021

Review: BLACK - a graphic bio of Tobias Taitt with graphics by Anthony Smith

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  Tobais Taitt's graphic bio BLACK is the second book I've read in as many months that tells a harrowing story of the cruelty and br...
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Saturday, 5 June 2021

Review: WAKE:THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN LED-SLAVE REVOLTS

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It was not until I was reading the acknowledgements that I was reminded that I’d helped in a very small way to make this important and wonde...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Review: Chater, Kathleen. (2021) Henry Box Brown: From Slavery to Show Business,

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Review  Chater, Kathleen. (2021)   Henry Box Brown: From Slavery to Show Business , McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA ...

The Black King a slave ? No!

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Twice I re ent times I have read that image of the Black King has its origins in slavery both times from leading white Western institutio...
Friday, 7 August 2020

Image of the Black in London Galleries Webinars

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  Add caption If you like what you see and read on this blog you can hear the history, the ideas and thinking I discuss in my blog by atte...