News & Views

We mark Black History Month with a profile of the former slave and Abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. “My life had lost its relish when...

This month we celebrate local resident Dido Belle, who lived at Kenwood House in Hampstead. Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was raised...

This month we celebrate Lydia Simmons OBE. Lydia made history in 1984 when she became the first black female Mayor in the whole of the UK....

This month we celebrate Paul Stephenson OBE, who led the Bristol Boycott of 1963 which paved the way for the first Race Relations Act....