A three-hour comprehensive sample of African women who resisted invasion, slavery and racist policies. Includes Queen Nzinga,Yaa Asantewa, Claudia Jones, Rosa Parks, Josephine Baker, Doris Pilkington, Mende Nazer, Mavis Best, Dame Joceyln Barrow, Una Marson and many more. Covers UK, North and South America, the Caribbean and Africa
Man of Steel was one of 2013's biggest blockbusters but many are unaware of the themes. images and motifs within the whole Superman mythology that link directly into Black History. This two hour movie breakdown goes into
The Origins of Superman
Product Placement
The concept of the 'other' in literature
Hollywoods hidden history of discrimination
Marvel vs DC Comics and diversity
Movies as cultural dominance
A detailed and extensive look at the African, Caribbean and Asian war effort with video clips and interviews with black Spitfire & bomber pilots, Nigerian and Somali troops fighting in Burma, black and asian women secret agents, u-boats in the Caribbean and the importance of Africa and India’s raw materials
Thank you so much for coming into our school on Friday. Your talk was really inspiring and so valuable to our students. It was great to see them so engaged'. Rebecca Howard, Canons High School, Queensbury
Above: packed house at the Imperial war Museum October 2015
An explanation of the crucial role Africa, Asia and the Caribbean played in WW1. Interviews with Jamaican WW1 veterans, West India Regiment in Palestine, black and asian fighter pilots, the Herero genocide, German colonies in Africa and how that affected geography and WW2
"I wanted to tell you that the lecture given by BHW at the Imperial War Musuem on 26th July was brilliant! When I came home, my parents were really excited about how much I had learnt...my Dad has always enouraged me to get a full picture of British history and until the lecture yesterday I hadn't fully realised how much of a void there is in the British History that is readily available at schools and Universities.I am a student at Lancaster University and I study the First World War but I knew nothing about the involvement of Black British Soldiers! "
Faye Grimes