British acts dominated the honours at the annual Mobo awards ceremony for music of black origin, which this year paid tribute to the late King of Pop Michael Jackson. London Hip hop trio N-Dubz scooped the awards for Best Album and Best Act, while JLS, finalists in Britain's X Factor talent television talent show, won ...
Ottobah Cuggano was born around 1757 in Ghana, he was kidnapped as a slave at around thirteen. He came to England from ...
Not many people in Britain today are aware that during World War II, there were over 400 air crew from the Caribbean who flew with the RAF - about 70 receiving commissions, 103 decorations for distinguished service, and over a hundred who gave their lives fighting for the 'mother country.' Group Captain Larry Osbourne, the ...
In the Early 1980's the tensions of inner City Living and intense policing collided. Rioting erupted in inner city London. This film shows some of the events of the 1981 Brixton riots. Were you there? Do you know anyone who was there who participated in the disturbances? Related Links: The Met The Scarman ...
Ces Podd Arrived in Britain from the Caribbean when he was just nine years old. When he was 16 years old he had managed to get himself into a Leeds ...
Arthur Wharton was the world's first Black Professional Footballer.Arthur was born to parents who were both mixed race. His father was half Grenadian and half Scottish, and ...
William Cuffay was one of the principle leaders of the Chartist movement, the first mass political movement of the British working class. He was born in Chatham Kent in 1788, the son of an African ...
The talented African violin Prodigy George Polgreen Bridgetower was born in Biala, Poland on February 29, 1780; his father...... the African Prince was married to a German woman who is named in English documents as Mary Ann Bridgetown. They had two sons, who both became fine musicians. The younger brother, "Fredrick", was a cellist......... (Prodigy George ...
Was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1882 and came to London in 1904 to study medicine at Kings College.? Despite being an excellent student and the recipient of many prizes - Moody found it difficult to get both work and lodgings. Eventually he set up his own successful practice in Peckham where he met and married ...
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! Staying ...