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Roman mosaic of a woman, British Museum | Pixabay | Public Domain

The Ivory Bangle Lady and the multi-culturalism of Roman Britain

Not What You Thought You Knew

Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough

Black Britons who shaped history

British History

Miss Lala, born Anna Olga Albertina Brown was a famous 19th-century acrobat | Public Domain | Wikipedia

How ‘Not What You Thought You Knew's’ Dr Fern Riddell uses Ancestry

Black History

Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor

Ancient History

HMS Brisk and Emanuela. Capture of slave ship, also known as Manuela, an 1854 | Public Domain | Wikipedia

The blockade of Africa: how Royal Navy ships suppressed the slave trade

Black History

Left to right: AC W P Ince of British Guiana, AC E Johnson of Jamaica and AC S E Johnson of Jamaica) during a passing out parade of West Indians at a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire | Public Domain | Wikipedia

The Caribbean, Indian and African RAF pilots of WW2

Black History

Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.), awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe William

'The Harlem Hellfighters': WW1's African-American regiment

Black History

Slave Ship by JWM Turner and portrait of Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme | Public Domain

Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre

Not What You Thought You Knew

Left: Only known photograph of Mary Seacole , 1873. Right: Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) by Albert Charles Challen | Public Domain | Wikimedia

The wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands

Black History

Bust of the Emperor Caracalla who was of African descent

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans

Ancient History

The story of Black History Month

Black History

Portrait of Toussaint Louverture, foreground and painting 'The Battle at San Domingo' by January Suchodolski, background

Toussaint Louverture and the birth of Haiti

Battles

Darwin used taxidermy to preserve Galapagos goldfinches. The differences he observed between species played an important part in developing the theory of evolution.

John Edmonstone – the man who taught Darwin

Not What You Thought You Knew

John Jellicoe Blair (pictured far left) alongside his RAF Crew.

John Jellicoe Blair and the Black RAF

Hitler

Nelson Mandela: The prison years

Black History

Althea Gibson: The Woman Who Changed Wimbledon

Sport

The Portrait of an African Man by Jan Mostaert, 1525 | public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Black History Month and the importance of celebrating black British history

Popular Culture

Image Source: The Independent

HISTORY's Forgotten People: Walter Tull

Sport

1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Black History

Nelson Mandela Facts

Popular Culture