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Home school competition to explore Black British History
2013: Calls for Annual Celebration of Windrush Day
Reclaiming Our Family History
100 Great Black Britons Book 2020
Masters of the Airwaves: Pirate radio
Black Ephemera
After the love has gone - Dougies
A Charmed Life : Eddie Martin Noble
Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
Case Study Motherland
EGM Heritage Projects and Programmes
Alex Haley - Roots

Home school competition to explore Black British History

In the light of the COVID-19 crisis and with schools closed until further notice, we are launching a new “home school” competition for children and young people, to explore Black British History and multicultural Britain. The competition... Read more...

2013: Calls for Annual Celebration of Windrush Day

Campaigners are this weekend calling for an annual celebration of the positive contribution of immigration to Britain. The call, led by politicians, faith groups, academics and artists, comes as the nation prepares to celebrate Windrush ... Read more...

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... Read more...

100 Great Black Britons Book 2020

A long-overdue book, 100 Great Black Britons honours the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over history, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina... Read more...

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... Read more...

Black Ephemera

Retroism is becoming a growing fashionable trend where styles, images, music, manufactured products and fashion of bygone years are now recreated for a discerning X and Y generation of consumers. The reinvention of cultural and historical m... Read more...

After the love has gone - Dougies

ORIGINALLY a cinema back in 1910, Dougies went on to become a hugely important nightclub in the black music scene from 1983 until its closure in 2007... The club was first opened in 1983 by Mr. Irvine Douglas who had previously owned a pop... 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... Read more...

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 ... Read more...

Case Study Motherland

An epic film - shot in Britain, Africa, the Caribbean and America - which follows the first ever descendants of African slaves as they 'return' to Africa armed with the science that will finally enable them to rediscover their lost African ... Read more...

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...

Alex Haley - Roots

The History of Roots I decided to write a book. My own ancestors’ would automatically also be a symbolic saga of all African-descent people-who are without exception the seeds of someone like Kunta who was born and grew up in some black ... Read more...

Details: Category: 100 Great Black Britons

A long-overdue book, 100 Great Black Britons honours the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over history, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osborne. With a foreword written by David Olusoga, this book includes a list of Black British names and accompanying portraits – including new role models and previously little-known historical figures. Each entry explores in depth the individual’s contribution to British history – a contribution that too often has been either overlooked or dismissed.

Home school competition to explore Black British History

Details: Category: 100 Great Black Britons

The competition, sponsored by The National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in Europe, is part of the special launch of the 100 Great Black Britons campaign created by Patrick Vernon OBE to celebrate the continued legacy and achievements of Black people in Britain.

100 Great Black Britons book and game

Details: Category: 100 Great Black Britons

Launching Oct 2020: As part of the 100 Great Black Britons campaign a book co-written by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osborne, will be published later this year along with a board game celebrating important Black British figures and their impact on British culture.

Patrick Vernon & the Ubele Initiative Launch Covid-19 Bereavement Fund

Details: Category: Heritage Projects & Programmes

Frontline staff from BAME backgrounds have lost their lives to Covid-19 throughout the past weeks, with the BAME community disproportionately affected by the virus. Figures from NHS England show that of patients in hospital testing positive for Covid-19 at time of death, 16.2% were of BAME ethnicity, while BAME people make up 10.8% of the UK population (according to the 2011 census).

100 Great Black Britons book

Details: Category: 100 Great Black Britons

Robinson snaps up 100 Great Black Britons book

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,