Black History

Exploring the historical, political and social experiences of black men and women throughout the ages.

Not What You Thought You Knew
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Tulsa Massacre: The single worst moment of racial violence in US history

Black History
The lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King: The firebrand and the pacifist

Black History
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
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
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela: The prison years

Black History
John Jellicoe Blair (pictured far left) alongside his RAF Crew.
John Jellicoe Blair and the Black RAF

Hitler
Althea Gibson: The woman who shattered the race barrier at 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