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Masters of the Airwaves: Pirate radio
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Black Ephemera
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100 Great Black Britons book
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Jamaica Fi Real
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Every Generation Game: Windrush Edition
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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
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Windrush Commemorative magazine 2018
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Harlesden Routes
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Akyaaba Addai-Sebo Interview
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Black History Month - Origins
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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Books
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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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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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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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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Every Generation Game: Windrush Edition
Every Generation Game: Windrush Edition is a storytelling board game designed to keep the experiences and stories of the Windrush Generation alive. It has been created to help families, friends and communities share their heritage, history,...
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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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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 Commonweal...
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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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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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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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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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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...Yes! Inclusion on National Curriculum
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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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.
