Presented in association with Barnet Libraries
Black History Walks has worked with Pearson education to convert our Notting Hill walk into a GCSE exam text book. The book covers individuals and topics never covered before at this level, including:
- Baron Baker and Black self defence groups
- Notting Hill ‘riots’ of 1958
- Black economic self empowerment
- Black British Civil rights
- Claudia Jones and the Black media
- The Mangrove 9
- Housing racism and West Indian community solutions
- The White Australia policy
- Caribbean food, blues/shebeens and music
- Police brutality before Black Lives Matter
- African/Caribbean World War 2 connections
This illustrated talk will take you through the book, pointing out the exciting new areas for study, the resources and additional references as well as intriguing histories outside the scope of GCSE.
This event is organised by Barnet Libraries in conjunction with Black History Walks
This is an online event the link will be sent to the email you register with please check your JUNK mail when you register and on the day of the talk.
Look out for our new book ‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’. This is part of Jacaranda Books revolutionary Twenty in 2020 initiative to publish 20 books by 20 Black British authors in 2020. An unprecedented feat. ‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’ is the 20th of that series but was delayed to this year due to the Coronavirus
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- 20 Banned Black films you need to see
- Black History Success Stories in London
- African Graphic Novels; the rise of Black superheroes
- The economic impact of African hair, local and global
- 19th century superheroine Sarah Parker Remond
- Black British Civil Rights, Behind the scenes
- Black history bus tour
- Black history river cruise
- How to rip off Black historians
- Black British Civil Rights and Darcus Howe day
- Secrets of Soho Black History Walk
- St Paul’s/Bank Black History Walk