There are centuries of Black history across Britain's canal networks. This guided cruise from Camden to Kings Cross and back will expose and explore some of that history. Your exclusive, comfortable, canal boat will float gently along the quiet backwaters of this busy city while we discuss:
- Black scientists and inventors
- Ancient African engineering
- The real Bridgerton, rich Black British people of the 1800s
- The Trinidad connection, canals and capitalism
- African Americans and Civil Wars
- Luxuries and classic British culture
- Racist statues and those who defend them, the BLM connections
- Caribbbean labour and the British Industrial Revolution
- History in your school dinner
- Armed Black resistance against white supremacy
- British sewage and the West Indies
- Your underwear and gasholders
Plus. Bring your own sandwiches and have a nibble while we float. After the commentary, we will enjoy some classic Soul/R&B while sipping Jamaican ginger beer and sharing our specially curated historical book list.
Other coming events from Black History Walks HERE
- Systemic Racism at the BFI why 17,000 signed the petition HERE
- How Black People Won World War 2, talk
- Dr Beryl Gilroy blue plaque unveiling
- The Little Mermaid's real Black history and the books to prove it museum and beach
- Fighting the slavemaster: Past and Present Walk
- Harlem in Mayfair Black walk
- How to teach Black history at GCSE level, workshop
- Theatreland history walk
- Hackney/Secrets of Soho/Trafalgar Square Black History Walks
- The Gentrifiction of Peckham and Black urban removal worldwide,
- Black History Steam train trip to the coast
- Black history bus tour around London
