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Art exhibition focuses on mystery of Easter

12th April 201911th April 2019 Josie McFarlane 194 Views 0 Comment art, christian, community, easter, exhibition, Faith, God, University

A multi-format art exhibition, exploring the journey towards Easter in Christianity, is being organised by the University of St Andrews.

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A secret network that helped slaves find freedom

2nd February 20191st February 2019 Josie McFarlane 265 Views 0 Comment African American, art, black, christian, community, Dawoud Bey, exhibition, Network, Night Coming Tenderly, Photographer, Slave trade, Slaves

During the late 18th Century, a network of secret routes was created in America, which by the 1840s had been

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New Tiger Bay material to showcase Cardiff docks’ history

7th January 201919th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 409 Views 0 Comment black, Cardiff, community, exhibition, Faith, History, Multicultural, oldest multi-ethnic community, Tiger Bay

More than 7,000 photos and videos will be used to tell the history of what life was like in Cardiff’s

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Oxford museum ‘educated about Maasai objects’

8th December 20186th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 313 Views 0 Comment Africa, community, culture, exhibition, History, Maasai objects, Maasai people, Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, sacred, Samwel Nangiria, tribes

A delegation from East Africa has been in the UK to educate the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford about its collection of

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Call for churches to welcome the handicapped

19th October 201818th October 2018 Josie McFarlane 428 Views 0 Comment #CRE, choir, christian, churches, community, exhibition, Faith, handicapped, Sally Phillips, Steve Goddard

Actress and comedian Sally Phillips wiped away a tear as she heard an 82-strong choir from the Notre Dame School,

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Cambridge to celebrate black alumni with University Library exhibition

8th September 201810th September 2018 Shirley McGreal 451 Views 0 Comment #BAME News, #Cambridge, #Cambridge University, #St Johns College, #UK News, black, exhibition, University, Zadie Smith

The exhibition, entitled ‘Black Cantabs: History Makers’, will be on display along the UL’s Royal Corridor throughout Michaelmas term The

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How Britain imprisoned some of the first black fighters against slavery

16th August 201830th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 11163 Views 0 Comment Abigail Coppins, African, African-Caribbean, Black British, Black fighters, Black history, Black population, Brigadier-General John Moore, brigands, British prison, Captain Louis Delgrès, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Caribbean people, Caste, Coppins, Delgrès, dying, English Heritage, Eulalie Piemont, exhibition, Fighting, Forgotten history, Forgotton, former slaves, free-born property owner, guerrilla campaign, Jean-Louis Marin Pèdre, l’Année de la Liberté, L’armée Française dans les bois, Martinique, Matouba on Guadeloupe, mixed race, Napoleonic France, Panthéon, Pont Neuf, Portchester Castle, Portsmouth Harbour, prisoners, revolutionary, Runaway slaves, Second Carib War, Sir Charles Gordon, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Slavery, St lucia, St Vincent, struggle against slavery, War of Austrian Succession

Forgotten history to be revisited with an exhibition revealing how some of the most celebrated black fighters in the early struggle against

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