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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
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Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
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A Charmed Life : Eddie Martin Noble
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Case Studies on Family History
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Books
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
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After the love has gone - Dougies
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Alex Haley - Roots
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Jamaica Fi Real
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2013: Calls for Annual Celebration of Windrush Day
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Harlesden Routes
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Case Study Motherland
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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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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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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Case Studies on Family History
Every Generation is keen to collect and share examples of best practice of people researching their family history. If you like to write a feature article or a short case study please register as a contributor on our website or email
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Books
Publications Every generation Media have compiled an excellent reading list with a selection of the books available to assist with your genealogy family research Amazon.co.uk Widgets Read more...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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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...
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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 ...
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Jamaica Fi Real
To the world at large Jamaica means sunny beaches, reggae and rum, but Jamaica Fi Real: Beauty, Vibes and Culture goes far beyond the surface...
Exposing and exploring the unique things that make Jamaica. In some cases setting the record s...
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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 ...
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Harlesden Routes
Harlesden Routes is a free family history programme which will run between January to March 2013 to support local people in taking the first steps in learning and researching their family history. We are looking for committed individuals wh...
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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 ...
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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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2013: Calls for Annual Celebration of Windrush Day
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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 Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the arrival into Tilbury Docks of the MV Empire Windrush and the first wave of post-war immigration.
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