Black history

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called ‘game of kings’ defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating...

Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as...

The premiere of Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the city of Cambridge will take place on 28 March from 6.30pm and is...

The largest survey to date of the opinions and attitudes of Black people in Britain has revealed a central split on the question of British pride.

A major new exhibition explores Cambridge's role in slavery, the people it affected and their resistance to it.

Historian Dr Meg Foster shatters the myth that “Black Douglas” murdered a white woman and tells the story of an intelligent survivor

Tyra Amofah-Akardom, Rumbidzai Dube and Surer Mohamed reflect on the Black Cantabs Research Society – a counter-history project, designed to uncover...

Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge University and The Voice newspaper.