Multiple Dates
BHM 2020: WCC Archives and Black History Studies lunchtime webinars
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About this Event
Sign up to one or all of these lunchtime webinars, for an interesting and enlightening journey through Black history.
Below is a list of what each webinar will cover. Please register your interest in each session you would like to attend so that we can monitor numbers.
Friday 2 October, 12-1pm
- WCC Archives: Burial of Margaret Moor 1571 at St Martin in the Fields
- Black History Studies: Queens and Great Women of Ancient and Medieval Africa
Friday 9 October, 12-1pm
- WCC Archives: The British Museum’s Famous Cato Street conspiracy print by George Cruikshank introduces us to the story of William Davidson, Jamaican revolutionary
- Black History Studies: Virtual Black History Tour of the British Museum
Friday 16 October, 12-1pm
- WCC Archives: The story of Ignatius Sancho from slavery to Whitehall tea dealer and the first recorded African voter in UK, buried in Christchurch Gardens
- Black History Studies: Money, Finance and African History: Linking our Financial Past to Present Day Financial Freedom
Friday 23 October, 12-1pm
- WCC Archives: The story of Walter Tull from a Methodist Orphanage to pioneering footballer and soldier.
- Black History Studies: The Amazing History of Black People in London before 1948
Friday 30 October, 12-1pm
- WCC Archives: Black Tudors examples of London’s black community in 15th century including Henry VII’s black trumpeter
- Black History Studies: The Hidden History of Africa Before the Slave Trade