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Case Studies on Family History
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Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
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Masters of the Airwaves: Pirate radio
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100 Great Black Britons book
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Alex Haley - Roots
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Black Ephemera
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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November 2019 Update
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Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
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Who do you think you are?
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After the love has gone - Dougies
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The Windrush Generation Legacy
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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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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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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100 Great Black Britons book
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 cam...
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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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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...
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
SUPPORT WEST INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PERSONNEL £1.4 MILLION CAPTIAL BUILDING PROGRAMMEI was invited to attend in Clapham the Remembrance Sunday memorial service and function organised by the West Indian Association of Service Personne...
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November 2019 Update
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
A Mast...
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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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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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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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The Windrush Generation Legacy
The transformation of post war Britain started on 21 June 1948 with the first major wave of migration, the docking of MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury with 492 men and women from Jamaica and Trinidad. Although there has been a black presence i...
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Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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- Category: African and Caribbean Independence & Emancipation
SUPPORT WEST INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PERSONNEL £1.4 MILLION CAPTIAL BUILDING PROGRAMME
I was invited to attend in Clapham the Remembrance Sunday memorial service and function organised by the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (formerly West Indian Ex-Servicemen and Women’s Association UK). I was impressed and felt honoured by their efforts and energy in reminding us of the contribution of not only people from the Caribbean but also from Africa, and the Commonwealth who volunteered, fought and died for the ‘Mother Country’.
100 Great Black Britons Campaign
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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 profile of the Black contribution to Britain and to challenge the notion of Britishness.
A Charmed Life : Eddie Martin Noble
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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 country has travelled to adapt to its multi-cultural and multi ethic heritage, reflected in London's 2012 Olympics.
The Windrush Generation Legacy
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The transformation of post war Britain started on 21 June 1948 with the first major wave of migration, the docking of MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury with 492 men and women from Jamaica and Trinidad. Although there has been a black presence in Britain since Roman times and at one stage 10,000 black people lived in London during the 17th Century.
