Black in Time: A daily exploration into Black British History

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The blog post: http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/

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Further reading: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/10/vernon-vanriel-windrush-boxer-who-lost-everything-then-battled-his-way-back 

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Topics Covered:

February 1st 1959 - Britain's first onscreen interracial kiss
https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-hot-summer-night-1959-online
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1134115/

February 2nd 2018 - Announcement that The Big Narstie Show was commissioned by Channel 4
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-big-narstie-show
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/jan/19/big-narstie-im-the-epitome-of-making-it-from-the-ground-up

February 3rd 1965 - Birth of Dave Benson Phillips
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ez8knj/the-vice-interview-dave-benson-phillips-get-your-own-back
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/dave-benson-phillips/

February 4th 2011 - Formal registration of Memorial 2007 as a charity
https://www.gofundme.com/f/enslave-african-memorial-london-hyde-park
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/23/memorial-2007-enslaved-africans-black-history-britain 

February 5th 1940 - Ita Ekpenyon enrols as an Air Raid Precautions warden
http://westendatwar.org.uk/documents/E._Ita_Ekpenyon_download_version_.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8972000/8972701.stm

February 6th 2020 - Press night for Death of England
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jan/15/clint-dyer-interview-writer-actor-director-death-of-england-football-racially-abused-bananas
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/death-of-england

February 7th 2008 - Official opening of the Stephen Lawrence Centre 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7230503.stm

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Topics Covered:

January 25th 1981: New Cross Fire Meeting

https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1981-bufp-new-cross-massacre.pdf

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/darcus-howe-a-political-biography/ch14-thirteen-dead-and-nothing-said.pdf?dl

January 26th 2020: Jo Martin becomes the first Black doctor
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/28/doctor-who-jo-martin-becomes-first-bame-actor-to-play-the-doctor

January 27th 2018: Reimagining Black Britain Conference

https://issuu.com/reimaginingblkbritainconf/docs/_re-imagining_black_britain__-_conf

January 28th 2017: End of The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles
http://themissingchapter.co.uk/exhibition-in-a-box/

https://vimeo.com/206429005

January 29th 1900: Death of William Craft - a formerly enslaved man who settled in the UK

https://www.history.com/news/slavery-escape-william-ellen-craft

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2021/10/hammersmith-blue-plaque-celebrates-abolitionists-and-former-slaves

January 30th 1959: London’s first televised Caribbean Carnival

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/world/europe/notting-hill-carnival-claudia-jones.html

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/08/birth-of-notting-hill-carnival

January 31st 2011: Rastamouse airs for the first time

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/rastamouse-mania-meet-the-man-behind-the-reggaeloving-rodent-6570619.html

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Topics Covered:

January 18th 1981: New Cross Fire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/15/how-the-new-cross-fire-became-a-rallying-cry-for-political-action

January 19th 1965: Pearl Prescod plays Tituba at the National Theatre 

https://blackbritishreader.tumblr.com/post/621886762995908608/pearl-prescod-1920-25-june-1966-pearl 

January 20th 1919: Birth of Roy Francis 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54695638

January 21st 1950: Birth of Billy Ocean 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/05/billy-ocean-family-values 

January 22nd 1982: Dread Broadcasting Corp features on the Oxford Roadshow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/archive/dread-broadcasting-corporation/z6cn2sg 

January 23rd 1919: The 1919 Glasgow Race Riots

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17376881.glasgow-1919---race-riot-scotland-rather-forget/

January 24th 2016: End of theNo Colour BarExhibition 

https://www.nocolourbar.org/exhibition 

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Topics Covered:

January 11th 2016: Death of Sarah Reed

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/17/sarah-reeds-mother-deaths-in-custody-holloway-prison-mental-health 

January 12th 1859: Sarah Parker Remond arrives in Liverpool

https://london.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/leading-women/a-voice-freedom-life-sarah-parker-remond 

January 13th 1975: Bunny Johnson is crowed British Heavyweight Champion

https://www.britishvintageboxing.com/post/bunny-johnson-the-long-slow-path-to-boxing-history

January 14th 2018: Death of Cyrille Regis

https://www.caribbeanintelligence.com/content/kick-black-footballers-cyrille-regis

January 15th 2001: Publication of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/mar/malorie-blackman-why-she-wrote-noughts-crosses.html 

January 16th 1959: Birth of Sade

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/sade

January 17th 1978: Bookshop Join Action picket the Home Office  

https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/the-pioneering-years/new-beacon-books-early-history/towards-radical-black-publishing-space/bookshop

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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the archival audio used in this episode. It is purely for informational purposes under fair use.

Special thanks to Yaw Nimoh for his help with research for this episode.

Topics covered:

January 4th 2011: Death of Ken Martindale, founder of Black British Heritage

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/09/ken-martindale-obituary 

January 5th 1989: Desmond's debuts on Channel 4

https://britsandpcs.com/desmonds-successfully-depicting-black-british-lives-from-the-early-1990s/ 

January 6th 1993: The Chrystal Rose Show (first UK talk show hosted by a woman) debuts on Carlton TV 

https://madnewsuk.com/2019/01/20/black-britain-the-chrystal-rose-show-1993-1997/ 

January 7th 2004: Black Ambition - a show following 8 undergraduates at the University of Cambridge - debuts on BBC Two. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3324427/People-say-You-went-to-Cambridge.html 

January 8th 1970: Death of George Arthur Roberts - one of Britain's first Black firefighters

https://www.georgearthurroberts.com/

January 9th 1988: Rok Da House, a single featuring Cookie Crew (one of the UK’s most successful rap duos), peaks at #5 in the UK charts

http://musicrareobscure.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-crew.html 

January 10th 1965: CARD - Campaign Against Racial Discrimination launches 

https://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/race-equality/55/campaign-against-racial-discrimination-card.html

Topics covered:

December 28th 1940: Evelyn Dove appears in the performance listings of the Midland Daily Newspaper

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000337/19401228/016/0002 

December 29th 2018: End of rapper Derek B's exhibition at Redbridge Museum

https://www.blackouthiphop.com/derek-b-the-woodford-rapper-exhibition/

December 30th 2012: A Nubian Jak blue plaque, dedicated to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is unveiled in Croydon

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/samuel-coleridge-taylor-musical-legend-black-cultural-archives/3AKiGhRCgoqtLQ?hl=en

December 31st 2010: The World Festival of Black Arts comes to an end  

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/03/world-festival-of-black-arts-kwei-armah

January 1st 1949: The 1948 British Nationality Act comes into force

https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/british-citizenship-and-the-windrush-generation

January 2nd 1988: Mark Walters makes his debut for Rangers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42371953

January 3rd 1971: A house party in Ladywell is petrol bombed

Correction: the address of the party was 47 Sunderland Road, not 47 Sutherland Road.

https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1971-black-voice.pdf 

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Topics Covered:

December 21st 1923: Birth of Connie Mark, community activist and founding president of the Mary Seacole Memorial Association

December 22nd 2013: JLS play their final gig 

December 23rd 1957: Birth of Trisha Goddard

December 24th 1964: Death of Claudia Jones

December 25th 1979: Boney M and Janet Kay appear on Top of The Pops Christmas Special

December 26th 1916: Death of George Bemand, first Black officer in the British Army 

December 27th 1977: The bookshop Bogle L'Ouverture is attacked

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Topics Covered: 

December 14th 1780 - Death of Ignatius Sancho 

https://www.bl.uk/people/ignatius-sancho#

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/sancho1/sancho1.html

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/record-of-ignatius-sanchos-vote-in-the-general-election-october-1774

December 15th 1787 - Sons of Africa write to Granville Sharp

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/today-in-london-black-history-1787-anti-slave-abolitionists-the-sons-of-africa-write-to-granville-sharp + Book: Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq By Prince Hoare

December 16th 1971 - End of the trial of the Mangrove 9 

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/10/landmarks-in-law-when-the-mangrove-nine-beat-the-british-state

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/jGD9WJrVXf/the-mangrove-nine-black-lives-matter

December 17th 1814 - Royal Cornwall Gazette writes of Joseph Emidy

https://www.jstor.org/stable/964272?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

[Music taken from] https://emidyproject.wordpress.com/

https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/10/05/history-of-black-british-musicians/

December 18th 1994 - Death of Lord Pitt

https://jennettearnold.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Echoes-A5-red.pdf

https://thecritic.co.uk/fifty-years-on-the-battle-to-elect-britains-first-black-mp/

December 19th 1966 - First meeting of the Caribbean Artists Movement

https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/caribbean-artists-movement-1966-1972

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40653055.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A336c17c374625eb77beb8df58a9df49b

December 20th 2018 - End of exhibition on Black British Cyclist Champions 

https://road.cc/content/news/252880-made-britain-exhibition-look-life-histories-black-british-champions-cycling 

https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2019/06-27-sir-bradley-wiggins-visits-brighton-academics-cycling-exhibition.aspx 

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Topics Covered:

December 7th 2019 - Anthony Joshua regains his unified heavyweight titles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/50701313#:~:text=Anthony%20Joshua%20became%20a%20two,tense%20rematch%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia

December 8th 1965 - The 1965 Race Relations Act comes into force 

https://irr.org.uk/article/the-race-relations-act-1965-blessing-or-curse/

December 9th 1999 - Liverpool City Council apologises for its role in the slave trade

https://bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2007/02/15/abolition_liverpool_apology_feature.shtml 

December 10th 1949 - QPR's first Black player makes his debut for the club

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/features/tommy-best-in-profile/

December 11th 1975 - The final series of Love Thy Neighbour begins airing 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour_(1972_TV_series)

December 12th 1982 - Daley Thompson is crowned Sports Personality of The Year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/sports-personality/24652938  

December 13th 2008 - Alexandra Burke duets with Beyoncé(!) and wins the X Factorhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/14/x-factor-alexandra-burke

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Topics Covered:

30/11/2016: Ackee & Saltish is broadcast on BBC Three

01/12/2018: Nine Night makes its West End debut

02/12/2018: Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson dies aged 59

03/12/1964: Malcolm X speaks at the Oxford Union

04/12/2013: Emmanuel McDonald Bailey dies aged 92

05/12/2017: Lubaina Himid wins the Turner Prize

06/12/1964: Martin Luther King speaks at St. Paul’s Cathedral

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Black in Time is an original podcast remembering pioneering people and defining moments from Black British History.

Each episode, we'll explore events that happened that week in history: from births and deaths pioneering of Black Brits to events of national or international importance.

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