Why this year’s Black History Month is pivotal
2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 19 enslaved Africans, brought to mainland English North America for the first
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UK needs black culture museum
Architect Sir David Adjaye has called for a “long overdue” museum celebrating black culture in Britain. He believes it would
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Britain’s first female black headteacher
In 1969 Yvonne Conolly became Britain’s first female black headteacher. Arriving from Jamaica in the early 60s she had worked
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400 Years of African History Commission
Every year of our life we get a chance to celebrate a wonderful milestone, our birthday! Birthdays are special days
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Missy Elliott makes songwriting history
Missy Elliott first female rapper inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame Missy Elliott made history on Saturday by becoming the first
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Pre-Aztec ‘Flayed god’ temple uncovered in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico say they have made an important discovery, uncovering a temple to Xipe Tótec – the pre-Hispanic “Flayed
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New Tiger Bay material to showcase Cardiff docks’ history
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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The curious history of the Christmas carol
Everyone knows Silent Night, but contemporary carols are still being written. We meet two of the UK’s most popular composers,
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Bethlehem church mosaics sparkle in time for Christmas
Experts clean, repair surviving fragments of 12th century masterworks at famed Church of the Nativity, some of which were covered
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Oxford museum ‘educated about Maasai objects’
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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Old City of Jerusalem, where seeing is also believing by Tayo Fatunla
The 18th Israeli International Festival for Animation, Comics and Caricature, established in 2001, was held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, last August.
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What do you know about Africa’s ‘looted treasures’?
During colonial rule in Africa, thousands of cultural artefacts were seized from the continent by western countries. But now, France has
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Bath Spa University appoints UK’s first black woman history professor
Olivette Otele hopes her promotion ‘opens the door to more receiving the recognition they deserve’ A history academic has entered
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Focus on slavery is putting black children off history, teachers warned
Teachers must stop devoting so much time to slavery because it puts black children off History, the Royal Historical Society has
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Jeremy Corbyn vows to increase teaching of black history in schools
Jeremy Corbyn has announced proposals to increase the amount of black history taught in schools, along with the history of the
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