Pearl Connor-Mogotsi, née Nunez, was a Trinidadian-born theatrical and literary agent, actress and cultural activist, who was a pioneering campaigner for the recognition and promotion of African Ca...
Person, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Theatre, Caribbean Islands
Following Claudia Jones’ indoor carnival, community activists working with the London Free School, Rhaune Laslett and her husband Jim, and Andre Shervington and his wife Barbara, organised a street...
Lawrence Noel is credited with bringing the first costumes to the Notting Hill Carnival, in 1973. Grew up in Trinidad. Lawrence, his wife Joan, and the family continued to make mas (masquerade) co...
Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands
"Merle Major is credited with saving {the Notting Hill} Carnival in 1972. ... She was a local woman who stepped up to the task of leading the event when it was facing financial ruin, and was under ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Caribbean Islands
Selwyn Baptiste was a Trinidad and Tobago-born pioneer of the introduction of the steel drum into Britain, forming the country's second steel band in 1967, and early organizer of London's Notting H...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands
Sterling Betancourt MBE, FRSA is a Trinidad-born pioneer, arranger and musician on the steelpan, a major figure in pioneering the Pan in Europe and the UK and an important pioneer participant in th...
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll) was an Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of Black and Asian literature, and a women's and commun...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, South America
Unusually, in this husband and wife team there is more information available about Jessica than about Eric. See Jessica's page for their work together and for a photo of them when younger. This i...
Broadcaster (e.g. with BBC Pause for Thought, 2021). A 2019 Church of Scotland page has photos and "Rev Alan Sorensen of Wellpark Mid Kirk in Greenock". The Wallace plaque mistakenly has 'Sorenson'.
Martin Raymond Dudley FSA FRHistS is an English author and politician. A former Anglican priest, he served as a City of London common councilman and authored various books about the Christian Churc...
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