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Van Gogh, Bob Marley, Kate Humble, Ardal O'Hanlon... not too shabby.

Why were the manifold contributions of the colonies not recognised in the many VE Day celebrations of 2020, asks Marika Sherwood. Writing for HistoryExtra, she explores the contributions of Black Britons, and people from Africa, India and the West Indies, during the Second World War…

Ivor Cummings, once dubbed the "gay father of the Windrush generation", was a proudly queer Black man who fought discrimination all his life.

More than 100 years after her death, the work of a native of St Vincent and the Grenadines who served as a nurse in a hospital in the United Kingdom (UK), has been acknowledged by Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. In an address on October 1 to mark Black History Month observed in the United Kingdom (UK) during October, the British Prime Minister hailed the work of generations of Black health …

Kit Heren (26 May, 2021) A new book discusses a benefit event for Ms Seacole held by the army at the former Royal Surrey Gardens in Penton Place in Walworth A new book has been published about Mary Seacole, the pioneering Jamaican nurse who helped look after British soldiers in the Crimean War in the 1850s. The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole is the script of a one-woman play by author and actress Cleo Sylvestre, which she has been performing for years. The book refers to a benefit event for Ms Seacole held by the army at the former Royal Surrey Gardens in Penton Plac...