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Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
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Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
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EGM Heritage Projects and Programmes
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A Charmed Life : Eddie Martin Noble
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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
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Reclaiming Our Family History
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Who do you think you are?
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Black History Month - Origins
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Masters of the Airwaves: Pirate radio
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Akyaaba Addai-Sebo Interview
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Keep Mary Seacole on the National Curriculum
Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
The petition calls upon David Cameron to posthumously award Walter Tull the Military Cross for which he was recommended. Walter Tull was the first Black officer in the British Army. He was also Britain’s first Black professional footballer ...
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Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
After launching the successful website and campaign of the 100 Great Black Britons over 10 years ago where Marcy Seacole was voted the Greatest Black Briton by the public, Michael Grove, Secretary State for Education wanted to remove her fr...
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
Family Genealogy in the black community is a difficult and painful process. The impact of slavery still has a mental, physical and socio economic impact on the sustainability of families. The African tradition of the family history and gene...
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EGM Heritage Projects and Programmes
EGM Heritage and Education Programmes Since 2001, Every Generation has delivered over 140 workshops and film screenings on family genealogy, oral history and cultural heritage at museums, libraries, archives, schools, youth groups, communi... Read more...A Charmed Life : Eddie Martin Noble
This is the story of one man whose life spanned several decades of change. Eddie describes a physical and emotional journey that takes us from colonial Jamaica to contemporary Britain. But Eddie’s journey also reflects the distance this cou...
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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
During 2002, the BBC devised a campaign and television series called 100 Great Britons where the public voted for Winston Churchill as the Greatest Briton of all time. Every Generation developed an alternative campaign and poll to raise the...
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Reclaiming Our Family History
WITH THE recent launch of the online database Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, which provides details of the £20 million paid to slave owners, key issues have been raised not only about the whole debate regarding reparations and...
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Who do you think you are?
Local residents from the Harlesden Routes family history programme went to Olympia in London on Saturday 23 February 2013 to attend the popular BBC1 TV family history show Who do you think you are.
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Black History Month - Origins
The conception and notion of Black Ephemera describes not only the process and how negatives images were created but also how they can be challenged and provide positive and alternative perspectives. This is why the creation and development...
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Masters of the Airwaves: Pirate radio
The book tells the story of the birth of black music radio in Britain in the seventies. It starts out with a few black music shows on legal radio, leading on to the black music pirate radio boom, and culminating with legal, black music radi...
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Akyaaba Addai-Sebo Interview
Akyaaba Addai-Sebo is responsible for putting forward the concept of a Black History Month in Britain, into what we recognise today, and is celebrated throughout the country. What follows is an edited version of an interview with Kubara Zam...
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Keep Mary Seacole on the National Curriculum
A new campaign is calling on the community to sign a petition opposing the government's proposals to remove Mary Seacole from the National Curriculum. Campaigners are opposed to the government's moves and wish to see Mary Seacole retained s...
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November 2019 Update
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Raise the Windrush anchor – and make it a statue to modern Britain
On the inaugural Windrush day, Patrick Vernon proposed that the anchor, languishing in the Mediterranean, would stand for racial equality and shared history
On the inaugural Windrush day, Patrick Vernon proposed that the anchor, languishing in the Mediterranean, would stand for racial equality and shared history
A Masterclass in Leadership and Campaigning
Wed 27 Nov 2019 at 18:30
Tickets: Eventbrite
by Martha Cuffy and Patrick Vernon
Masterclass in Leadership and Campaigning. Becoming a champion for an issue or cause you feel passionately about can be a lonely journey especially at the beginning when the way forward feels unclear and you may have little support.
Wed 27 Nov 2019 at 18:30
Tickets: Eventbrite
by Martha Cuffy and Patrick Vernon
Masterclass in Leadership and Campaigning. Becoming a champion for an issue or cause you feel passionately about can be a lonely journey especially at the beginning when the way forward feels unclear and you may have little support.
100 Great Black Britons book
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Little, Brown imprint Robinson will publish Patrick Vernon and Dr Angeline Osborne’s book 100 Great Black Britons to coincide with the announcement of the new list in 2020.
Vernon’s first campaign in 2003 was a major media movement to focus on the role of black people in British history. Originally a response to another BBC poll of 100 great Britons,
Award for Patrick Vernon community activist
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Community activist and Windrush campaigner Patrick Vernon has been honoured by the University of Wolverhampton.
Patrick has a 25-year track record working in health and care, and led the campaign for Windrush Day and amnesty for the Windrush Generation.
He received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University at a graduation ceremony on Thursday, 20 September 2018.
Windrush Commemorative magazine 2018
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We provide personal narratives, insight, comments and reflections highlighting the Windrush Generation who came to Britain to those born in the Millennium and the diversity of migration over the last 70 years from the Commonwealth and Europe.
Every Generation Game: Windrush Edition
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