Black history

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.

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.

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

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

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

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