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Black In Time
Black in Time is an original podcast exploring Black British history one day at a time.
Each episode, we take a look at the week to come and share events that happened that week in history: from births and deaths of pioneering Black Brits to events of national and international importance.
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Written, Produced and Researched by: Olivia "Liv" Hylton
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The blog post: http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/
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Further reading: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/10/vernon-vanriel-windrush-boxer-who-lost-everything-then-battled-his-way-back
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Topics Covered:
February 1st 1959 - Britain's first onscreen interracial kisshttps://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-hot-summer-night-1959-online
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1134115/
February 2nd 2018 - Announcement that The Big Narstie Show was commissioned by Channel 4https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-big-narstie-show
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/jan/19/big-narstie-im-the-epitome-of-making-it-from-the-ground-up
February 3rd 1965 - Birth of Dave Benson Phillipshttps://www.vice.com/en/article/ez8knj/the-vice-interview-dave-benson-phillips-get-your-own-back
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/dave-benson-phillips/
February 4th 2011 - Formal registration of Memorial 2007 as a charityhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/enslave-african-memorial-london-hyde-park
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/23/memorial-2007-enslaved-africans-black-history-britain
February 5th 1940 - Ita Ekpenyon enrols as an Air Raid Precautions wardenhttp://westendatwar.org.uk/documents/E._Ita_Ekpenyon_download_version_.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8972000/8972701.stm
February 6th 2020 - Press night for Death of Englandhttps://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jan/15/clint-dyer-interview-writer-actor-director-death-of-england-football-racially-abused-bananas
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/death-of-england
February 7th 2008 - Official opening of the Stephen Lawrence Centre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7230503.stm
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Topics Covered:
January 25th 1981: New Cross Fire Meeting
https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1981-bufp-new-cross-massacre.pdf
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/darcus-howe-a-political-biography/ch14-thirteen-dead-and-nothing-said.pdf?dl
January 26th 2020: Jo Martin becomes the first Black doctorhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/28/doctor-who-jo-martin-becomes-first-bame-actor-to-play-the-doctor
January 27th 2018: Reimagining Black Britain Conference
https://issuu.com/reimaginingblkbritainconf/docs/_re-imagining_black_britain__-_conf
January 28th 2017: End of The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicleshttp://themissingchapter.co.uk/exhibition-in-a-box/
https://vimeo.com/206429005
January 29th 1900: Death of William Craft - a formerly enslaved man who settled in the UK
https://www.history.com/news/slavery-escape-william-ellen-craft
https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2021/10/hammersmith-blue-plaque-celebrates-abolitionists-and-former-slaves
January 30th 1959: London’s first televised Caribbean Carnival
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/world/europe/notting-hill-carnival-claudia-jones.html
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/08/birth-of-notting-hill-carnival
January 31st 2011: Rastamouse airs for the first time
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/rastamouse-mania-meet-the-man-behind-the-reggaeloving-rodent-6570619.html
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Topics Covered:
January 18th 1981: New Cross Fire
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/15/how-the-new-cross-fire-became-a-rallying-cry-for-political-action
January 19th 1965: Pearl Prescod plays Tituba at the National Theatre
https://blackbritishreader.tumblr.com/post/621886762995908608/pearl-prescod-1920-25-june-1966-pearl
January 20th 1919: Birth of Roy Francis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54695638
January 21st 1950: Birth of Billy Ocean
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/05/billy-ocean-family-values
January 22nd 1982: Dread Broadcasting Corp features on the Oxford Roadshow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/archive/dread-broadcasting-corporation/z6cn2sg
January 23rd 1919: The 1919 Glasgow Race Riots
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17376881.glasgow-1919---race-riot-scotland-rather-forget/
January 24th 2016: End of the No Colour Bar Exhibition
https://www.nocolourbar.org/exhibition
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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the archival audio used in this episode. It is purely for informational purposes under fair use.
Special thanks to Yaw Nimoh for his help with research for this episode.
Topics Covered:
January 11th 2016: Death of Sarah Reed
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/17/sarah-reeds-mother-deaths-in-custody-holloway-prison-mental-health
January 12th 1859: Sarah Parker Remond arrives in Liverpool
https://london.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/leading-women/a-voice-freedom-life-sarah-parker-remond
January 13th 1975: Bunny Johnson is crowed British Heavyweight Champion
https://www.britishvintageboxing.com/post/bunny-johnson-the-long-slow-path-to-boxing-history
January 14th 2018: Death of Cyrille Regis
https://www.caribbeanintelligence.com/content/kick-black-footballers-cyrille-regis
January 15th 2001: Publication of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/mar/malorie-blackman-why-she-wrote-noughts-crosses.html
January 16th 1959: Birth of Sade
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/sade
January 17th 1978: Bookshop Join Action picket the Home Office
https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/the-pioneering-years/new-beacon-books-early-history/towards-radical-black-publishing-space/bookshop
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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the archival audio used in this episode. It is purely for informational purposes under fair use.
Special thanks to Yaw Nimoh for his help with research for this episode.
Topics covered:
January 4th 2011: Death of Ken Martindale, founder of Black British Heritage
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/09/ken-martindale-obituary
January 5th 1989: Desmond's debuts on Channel 4
https://britsandpcs.com/desmonds-successfully-depicting-black-british-lives-from-the-early-1990s/
January 6th 1993: The Chrystal Rose Show (first UK talk show hosted by a woman) debuts on Carlton TV
https://madnewsuk.com/2019/01/20/black-britain-the-chrystal-rose-show-1993-1997/
January 7th 2004: Black Ambition - a show following 8 undergraduates at the University of Cambridge - debuts on BBC Two.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3324427/People-say-You-went-to-Cambridge.html
January 8th 1970: Death of George Arthur Roberts - one of Britain's first Black firefighters
https://www.georgearthurroberts.com/
January 9th 1988: Rok Da House, a single featuring Cookie Crew (one of the UK’s most successful rap duos), peaks at #5 in the UK charts
http://musicrareobscure.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-crew.html
January 10th 1965: CARD - Campaign Against Racial Discrimination launches
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/race-equality/55/campaign-against-racial-discrimination-card.html
Topics covered:
December 28th 1940: Evelyn Dove appears in the performance listings of the Midland Daily Newspaper
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000337/19401228/016/0002
December 29th 2018: End of rapper Derek B's exhibition at Redbridge Museum
https://www.blackouthiphop.com/derek-b-the-woodford-rapper-exhibition/
December 30th 2012: A Nubian Jak blue plaque, dedicated to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is unveiled in Croydon
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/samuel-coleridge-taylor-musical-legend-black-cultural-archives/3AKiGhRCgoqtLQ?hl=en
December 31st 2010: The World Festival of Black Arts comes to an end
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/03/world-festival-of-black-arts-kwei-armah
January 1st 1949: The 1948 British Nationality Act comes into force
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/british-citizenship-and-the-windrush-generation
January 2nd 1988: Mark Walters makes his debut for Rangers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42371953
January 3rd 1971: A house party in Ladywell is petrol bombed
Correction: the address of the party was 47 Sunderland Road, not 47 Sutherland Road.
https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1971-black-voice.pdf
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Topics Covered:
December 21st 1923: Birth of Connie Mark, community activist and founding president of the Mary Seacole Memorial Association
December 22nd 2013: JLS play their final gig
December 23rd 1957: Birth of Trisha Goddard
December 24th 1964: Death of Claudia Jones
December 25th 1979: Boney M and Janet Kay appear on Top of The Pops Christmas Special
December 26th 1916: Death of George Bemand, first Black officer in the British Army
December 27th 1977: The bookshop Bogle L'Ouverture is attacked
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Topics Covered:
December 14th 1780 - Death of Ignatius Sancho
https://www.bl.uk/people/ignatius-sancho#
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/sancho1/sancho1.html
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/record-of-ignatius-sanchos-vote-in-the-general-election-october-1774
December 15th 1787 - Sons of Africa write to Granville Sharp
https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/today-in-london-black-history-1787-anti-slave-abolitionists-the-sons-of-africa-write-to-granville-sharp + Book: Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq By Prince Hoare
December 16th 1971 - End of the trial of the Mangrove 9
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/10/landmarks-in-law-when-the-mangrove-nine-beat-the-british-state
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/jGD9WJrVXf/the-mangrove-nine-black-lives-matter
December 17th 1814 - Royal Cornwall Gazette writes of Joseph Emidy
https://www.jstor.org/stable/964272?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
[Music taken from] https://emidyproject.wordpress.com/
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/10/05/history-of-black-british-musicians/
December 18th 1994 - Death of Lord Pitt
https://jennettearnold.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Echoes-A5-red.pdf
https://thecritic.co.uk/fifty-years-on-the-battle-to-elect-britains-first-black-mp/
December 19th 1966 - First meeting of the Caribbean Artists Movement
https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/caribbean-artists-movement-1966-1972
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40653055.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A336c17c374625eb77beb8df58a9df49b
December 20th 2018 - End of exhibition on Black British Cyclist Champions
https://road.cc/content/news/252880-made-britain-exhibition-look-life-histories-black-british-champions-cycling
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2019/06-27-sir-bradley-wiggins-visits-brighton-academics-cycling-exhibition.aspx
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Topics Covered:
December 7th 2019 - Anthony Joshua regains his unified heavyweight titles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/50701313#:~:text=Anthony%20Joshua%20became%20a%20two,tense%20rematch%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia
December 8th 1965 - The 1965 Race Relations Act comes into force
https://irr.org.uk/article/the-race-relations-act-1965-blessing-or-curse/
December 9th 1999 - Liverpool City Council apologises for its role in the slave trade
https://bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2007/02/15/abolition_liverpool_apology_feature.shtml
December 10th 1949 - QPR's first Black player makes his debut for the club
https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/features/tommy-best-in-profile/
December 11th 1975 - The final series of Love Thy Neighbour begins airing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour_(1972_TV_series)
December 12th 1982 - Daley Thompson is crowned Sports Personality of The Year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/sports-personality/24652938
December 13th 2008 - Alexandra Burke duets with Beyoncé(!) and wins the X Factor https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/14/x-factor-alexandra-burke
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Topics Covered:
30/11/2016: Ackee & Saltish is broadcast on BBC Three
- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/magazine/cecile-emeke-isnt-worried-about-hollywood.html
- https://www.aqnb.com/2017/05/02/exploring-the-multiplicity-of-the-black-experience-in-europe-with-cecile-emekes-strolling/
01/12/2018: Nine Night makes its West End debut
- https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/nine-night-review-natasha-gordon-makes-west-end-history-with-punchy-poignant-family-drama-a4011036.html
- https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nine-night-at-trafalgar-studios
02/12/2018: Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson dies aged 59
- https://mi-soul.com/paul-trouble-anderson-tribute-the-pioneering-dj-has-passed-away/
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/13/paul-trouble-anderson-obituary
03/12/1964: Malcolm X speaks at the Oxford Union
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23425460.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A56d7096238ffc8e04b75e1085016af63
- https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/malcolm-x-black-power-amid-dreaming-spires/
04/12/2013: Emmanuel McDonald Bailey dies aged 92
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwVVl4jCOg
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2015.1133594?scroll=top&needAccess=true
05/12/2017: Lubaina Himid wins the Turner Prize
- https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/lubaina-himid-turner-prize
- https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/02/lubaina-himid-black-woman-turner-prize-race-bittersweet
06/12/1964: Martin Luther King speaks at St. Paul’s Cathedral
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/martin-luther-king-in-london-1964-reflections-on-a-landmark-visit
- https://www.stpauls.co.uk/history-collections/history/history-highlights/martin-luther-king
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Black in Time is an original podcast remembering pioneering people and defining moments from Black British History.
Each episode, we'll explore events that happened that week in history: from births and deaths pioneering of Black Brits to events of national or international importance.
Check out our Instagram page for daily posts about topics covered in each episode: https://www.instagram.com/blackintimepod/