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Black British Voices: the findings

28 Sep 2023

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.

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Black Ned Kelly? The truth about an infamous Australian bandit

14 Nov 2022

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

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“We can’t put our trust in a system that doesn’t hear us”

24 May 2021

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

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Patricia Bath (left) and Faith Osier

Black Legacies in STEM exhibition launches today

05 Oct 2020

To celebrate Black History Month 2020, an exhibition curated by Africans in STEM entitled ‘Past & Present: Black Legacies in STEM’ launches...

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University of Cambridge researchers

Black researchers shaping the future

10 Oct 2018

As the UK marks Black History Month, researchers from across the University talk about their route to Cambridge, their inspiration and their...

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Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies

16 Nov 2016

As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave...

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Detail from a list of the names, ages and prices of slaves bought by British plantation owner  William Philip Perrin from John Broomfield in 1796.

Price of Britain’s Slave Trade revealed

13 Aug 2015

Letters and papers revealing in detail how human beings were priced for sale during the 18th century Transatlantic Slave Trade have been made...

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Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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Private collection of Cambridge’s “heretic” bishop goes on show

03 Feb 2014

Letters and publications belonging to John Colenso, a 19th-century missionary who caused outrage for his sympathetic work with Zulus in South Africa...

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Black Power in Britain becoming “forgotten history”

05 Jan 2014

A new biography of Darcus Howe, which offers the first detailed history of Britain’s little-known Black Power movement, claims that the racism it...

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Plastic hair comb, 21st century, bought in Nigeria

Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 years of culture, politics and identity

02 Jul 2013

The 6,000-year history of the Afro Comb, its extraordinary impact on cultures worldwide, and community stories relating to hair today are being...

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