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MembershipaudioBeing Black and gay in postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jason Okundaye explores the social, sexual and political history of London’s community of Black gay men in the late 20th century
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MembershipaudioBlack Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Miranda Kaufmann tells the little-known stories of several Africans who resided in 16th-century England
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MembershipaudioIs black history still being overlooked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
As the UK marks Black History Month, three expert historians discuss whether the focus on black history sparked by 2020's global protests has been maintained
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MembershipaudioDisease killers: the black nurses who conquered TB. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Maria Smilios recounts the remarkable story of the black nurses of Staten Island who were on the frontlines of finding a cure for tuberculosis
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Membershipaudio**‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.**
Meg Foster unpicks the shadowy legend of the 19th-century Australian bushranger known as ‘Black Douglas’
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MembershipaudioBlack Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From political agitators and artist’s muses to composers, sailors and the goddaughter of the queen herself, John Woolf shares the stories of black people in Victorian Britain
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MembershipaudioTrailblazers of black British theatre. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Stephen Bourne chronicles the rise of black theatre in Britain, from 19th-century Shakespearean actors to ground-breaking playwrights
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MembershipaudioReconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dr Kimberly Welch reveals what legal records can tell us about the lives of black people in the Antebellum South
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MembershipaudioBlack cowboys on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Tony Warner discusses some of the real historical figures depicted in the new Netflix western The Harder They Fall
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MembershipaudioBlack British history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Hannah Cusworth answers listener questions on black British history – from Cheddar Man, to the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott
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MembershipaudioBlack Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Stephen Bourne discusses the experiences of Britain’s black community during the Second World War
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MembershipaudioBlack radical: William Monroe Trotter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Kerri K Greenidge explores the life and career of the pioneering black newspaperman William Monroe Trotter
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MembershipaudioBlack radicalism with Kehinde Andrews. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Kehinde Andrews discusses his new book, Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century, and offers his opinions on issues including Black History Month, reparations for slavery, and history education in the UK
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MembershipaudioFighting racism in postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Preeti Dhillon discusses the thousands of black and Asian Britons that campaigned against racism between the 1960s and 1980s
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MembershipaudioAmazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor James Walvin tells the story of Amazing Grace, the hymn that was written by a one-time slave trader and ballooned to become a global phenomenon
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MembershipaudioBefore Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Christienna Fryar reveals the longer history of British-Caribbean relations that predates the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948
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MembershipaudioHow the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Hannah Cusworth reflects on a landmark moment in the campaign for racial equality in Britain
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