A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Britain commemorating black people and events through the ages.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
BBC History Project
Bill Richmond, freed slave, boxer, entrepreneur, spent the last evening of hi...
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020:...
Black trumpeter John Blanke musician at the courts of Henry VII & Henry V...
In 2001-2 Clark was living close to Vauxhall Park and was a member of the Friends of Vauxhall Park. He restored the model village there. Harry, his son, seems (2021) to be connected with Southwark...
Established to promote close and friendly relations between Brazil and Britain, and to increase British people's knowledge of Brazil and its culture.
Frank Sylvester Rollock was born and grew up in Trinidad. He followed his brother Roy to England in October 1959 and the next year they were playing the pans in Brixton Carnival. He played a number...
2011 - we could find nothing current about them on the web.
Born as Freda Pulverness in Stepney but lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as...
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