Sunday, April 10, 2011

Black British History: BASA entries

007251 2011-04-08 18:48 177 Fwd: London Maze Event 16 April - FREE
007231 2011-04-02 07:53 16 RIP Marable Manning (1950-2011)
007136 2011-02-26 08:15 190 Spike Lee/Who Do You Think You Are
007131 2011-02-24 09:35 22 Who Do You Think You Are? The Griswolds
006979 2011-01-04 13:45 19 Rudy Brown, Justice of the Peace for Britain after 25 years on London transport
006945 2010-12-17 18:25 221 Re: G A Butler, lately attache at the Chinese Embasssy [London]
006927 2010-12-09 07:06 162 Poland welcomes first black member of parliament, 06.12.2010 11:57
006876 2010-11-18 19:54 57 Re: A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
006810 2010-10-29 08:39 147 Ghanaian Peter Bossman becomes First Black Mayor Elected in Eastern Europe
006789 2010-10-21 12:56 139 Fwd: Caryl Phillips visit to Sheffield 25 October 2010
006664 2010-09-24 12:03 61 Black British lives
006659 2010-09-21 09:55 17 Brighton Pavillion hospital WWI - an act of propaganda?
006635 2010-09-07 12:12 50 Re: Watford African Caribbean Supplementary School - Open Day Saturday 11 September 2010
006567 2010-08-12 12:07 97 ‘Saragarhi Day': Sikhs in the service of the British Army
006559 2010-08-11 13:12 42 Re: International Year for People of African Descent
006532 2010-08-04 09:29 63 Black Diaspora and Germany
006529 2010-08-03 19:36 25 Black American GIs in Falmouth & Bristol during WWII
006516 2010-07-30 11:19 41 Re: Research: Knowledge of Italian
006514 2010-07-30 07:44 548 Fwd: Diaspora: FW: Save Islamic Studies at MMU
006511 2010-07-29 10:38 141 Fwd: Call out for Volunteers
006509 2010-07-29 06:20 353 Re: William Cuffay: Britain's Black Revolutionary
006506 2010-07-28 13:42 204 Re: Aunti and uncle.
006499 2010-07-28 01:57 146 Re: Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007) errors?
006498 2010-07-28 08:20 37 Re: 'adopted' relatives
006475 2010-07-25 13:47 83 Re: Dr James S. Risien Russell
006456 2010-07-19 11:18 71 Re: William Cuffay on BBC Radio 4 28 July
006408 2010-07-07 11:44 17 response to anonymous 1860s photograph of a black woman at Smithsonian
06407 2010-07-07 11:36 443 Fwd: Ethnic minority older people project launch - Parliamentary reception
006399 2010-07-02 09:59 43 new technology enables historians to see what Livingstone really said
006386 2010-06-29 18:53 3026 Fwd: Last chance to see Sammy Baloji's Memoire at Dilston Grove, London
006385 2010-06-29 18:44 228 Fwd: Diaspora: Seeking Sources on Jewish Continuity, 'Mixed Marriage', European Jewish Kinship etc.
006379 2010-06-24 22:09 379 Fwd: Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture Thursday 1 - Friday 2 July, 2010
006372 2010-06-21 07:37 111 Re: recommendation needed - again....
006364 2010-06-19 23:38 82 Black History Tour - Brighton
006352 2010-06-18 17:58 52 Re: African Venus and Sheikh Abdullah
006345 2010-06-18 08:31 22 America's hypocrisy (again!)
006343 2010-06-17 09:57 167 Fwd: LECTURE TONIGHT - Banda Singh Bahadur: Ruler or Rebel? Political Response to Imperial Hegemony
006340 2010-06-16 11:35 89 University of Amsterdam appoints Stephen Small as its first ever professor in the Dutch history of slavery
006320 2010-06-11 18:30 94 Fwd: Chattri Memorial Service, Sunday 13th June 2pm, Brighton
006318 2010-06-10 21:38 22 NPG exhibition: Indian Portraits
006317 2010-06-10 14:22 85 Black Heritage - the V&A's new Black Heritage Programme
006290 2010-05-31 12:46 19 FAO Jan Marsh
006286 2010-05-28 22:28 20 BBC Radio 4: Great Lives - Viv Anderson on Arthur Wharton Friday 28th May 11pm
006284 2010-05-27 21:30 69 Revealing Anne Lister Mon 31st May 10.30pm BBC2
006242 2010-05-06 17:19 20 Black Debutantes UK
006232 2010-04-30 20:10 65 Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799)
006195 2010-04-13 17:25 60 Re: in case you missed this - Domesday image
006193 2010-04-12 15:09 273 Fwd: Diversity group conference
006181 2010-04-07 08:07 62 Re: South African soccer tourists, 1899-1900
006168 2010-04-02 09:32 334 Sam Sharpe and the Quest for Liberation: Context, Theology and Legacy for Today
006139 2010-03-17 16:32 39 Re: Black and Asian people in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
006106 2010-03-01 16:38 35 Re: interesting vintage photo
006062 2010-02-08 07:09 16 Obituary notices: Rex Nettleford
006051 2010-02-03 07:56 16 RIP Rex Nettleford
006028 2010-01-24 13:22 37 Re: [Caar-Listserver] Greetings from Berea College
006020 2010-01-20 23:25 90 Re: Seeking information about an Irish Woman who married a Black American c. 1865
006019 2010-01-20 21:42 73 Re: Seeking information about an Irish Woman who married a Black American c. 1865
005997 2010-01-15 16:21 75 British losses (property, slaves, etc) during the American War of Independence
005942 2009-12-30 12:10 94 FAO: Vincent Carretta re. Ignatius Sancho
005936 2009-12-27 08:15 71 a mixed race "mulatto" rose to become an RN Captain in the West Indies
005932 2009-12-25 19:01 65 did you see...? Ottley's Slave Plantation: St Kitts
005926 2009-12-20 16:31 16 Re: An odd one.
005895 2009-12-16 19:29 45 Black congress USA - thanks for the link Sean
005889 2009-12-16 15:58 18 Tuskegee Airmen WWII black pilots/engineers
005884 2009-12-16 14:34 56 Re: Small Island - How does Pt 2 end?
005875 2009-12-15 18:45 41 adam afriyie on the environment
005861 2009-12-12 22:58 17 a review of The Selling of "Precious" by Ishmael Reed
005860 2009-12-10 20:34 48 Stem cell transplants treat 'incurable' blood disorder: Sickle Cell Anaemia
005844 2009-12-08 22:02 19 History of Scotland - BBC2 8pm - Wedderburn & slavery
005818 2009-12-04 18:06 155 Public lecture – The Life and work of Zora Neale Hurston (Women’s Library, London)
005812 2009-11-30 11:25 63 Senegalese French Army troops blamed for civilian massacres during WWII
005801 2009-11-24 21:42 31 Re: 'Job ben Solomon' 1701-1773
005781 2009-11-21 20:04 45 Not Forgotten: Asian Soldiers in WWI
005778 2009-11-20 08:40 47 www.deepogon.com/pages/slave_voyages
005770 2009-11-19 21:42 69 Re: West Indian Radio programming
005748 2009-11-14 18:31 89 Re: The Crisis
005738 2009-11-13 19:38 119 Re: 1972 Oscars
005687 2009-11-03 18:30 22 Re: Discussin & Exhbit
005602 2009-10-11 20:19 5257 Re: My ENewsletter
005407 2009-08-06 18:58 83 Re: Antigua Names Mountain After Obama On His Birthday
005338 2009-07-07 08:23 14 Re: Rothschilds
005333 2009-07-04 22:57 29 Re: Film maker Blagrove in Israeli prison
005287 2009-06-25 08:20 225 photograph and a rare signature of Jamaican-born nursing hero, Mary Seacole
005280 2009-06-23 18:31 64 Re: New Exhibit at Smithsonian
005256 2009-06-20 06:28 460 Re: Wilberforce Institute Short Course: Slavery in All its Forms
005238 2009-06-18 02:06 671 Re: Recovery of Sunken Slave Ship
005235 2009-06-18 09:18 432 Re: {Disarmed} Re: Recovery of Sunken Slave Ship
005229 2009-06-17 20:41 69 Infant mortality in Jamaica before 1900?
005127 2009-06-01 07:47 63 'Until the lion has its' own historian, tales of hunting will always be of the hunter' African proverb
005037 2009-04-14 18:05 5760 Fwd: Black History Course
005026 2009-04-13 10:04 95 Dreading dreadlocks - Bahamas
005025 2009-04-13 07:53 558 Meet the Obamas
005017 2009-04-09 18:40 89 African literature more anthropological or sociological rather than literary!
005007 2009-04-09 12:06 32 Re: The Black Police and Obama
005003 2009-04-09 09:10 736 Fwd: Obahama and Queen
005002 2009-04-09 07:37 12955 Fwd: President Obama and a Brother
004902 2009-03-05 20:19 270 Re: Timeline of Black Film Actors (WHY NOT THEATRE?)
004891 2009-03-05 05:46 183 Re: A Timeline of Black Actors in British Cinema
004868 2009-02-24 19:30 56 Re: WWII Black/Asian soldiers
004852 2009-02-20 21:38 61 PARK IN ENGLAND RENAMED FOR JAMAICAN-BORN COUNCILLOR—02/14/09
004848 2009-02-20 09:24 70 was the poet and painter, Adrian Henri (1932-2000) mixed race?
004836 2009-02-18 13:57 123 Sir Sidney Poitier?
004817 2009-02-14 07:44 63 Propaganda and truth about the first world war
004729 2009-01-16 18:04 58 Re: black? and Asian studies association
004677 2009-01-01 05:48 30 Re: early photographs of the Black Presence in UK from mid 1800s
004644 2008-12-12 23:51 147 Fwd: Black Cultural Archives need your help...
004639 2008-12-11 19:58 764 Fwd: History of Feminism Network
004604 2008-11-21 15:06 267 the sad story of Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson
004595 2008-11-17 09:16 21 London's oldest black owned wine bar
004589 2008-11-14 18:08 290 The Lament of the SS Mendi
004585 2008-11-14 06:42 471 Fwd: A note from Alice Walker
004581 2008-11-13 21:52 48 Jamaican nostalgia at London's oldest black-owned wine bar
004551 2008-10-31 21:58 60 JAMAICAN WOMEN CHOSEN FOR EXPEDITION TO SOUTH POLE—10/27/08
004539 2008-10-26 07:57 23 Was Malcolm X Racist?
004528 2008-10-21 09:55 18 Jules Feiffer cartoons
004516 2008-10-16 20:50 40 Re: gollywogs in Liverpool
004503 2008-10-13 20:36 167 Black as ink: For info only - event sold out
004500 2008-10-13 05:55 71 Fwd: Golden Passports
004494 2008-10-10 10:46 93 Breast Cancer Awareness Month
004489 2008-10-09 08:34 23 142 page BHM magazine October 2008
004487 2008-10-08 18:28 102 Re: EVENT
004483 2008-10-08 07:32 52 Golliwogs for sale
004452 2008-10-03 14:06 90 Re: Digital Photo of Eric and Jessica Huntley
004436 2008-09-28 12:39 88 Re: Drake jewel
004414 2008-09-17 19:57 36 Re: Dag of Black person
004406 2008-09-16 01:30 94 Black Boy lane etc
004392 2008-09-14 07:58 17 early photographs of the Black Presence in UK from mid 1800s
004383 2008-09-12 11:49 67 Re: C19 photos
004372 2008-09-11 19:37 127 Re: photos of black people in Britain
004341 2008-08-30 14:18 33 root/origin of the word 'nigger'
004340 2008-08-30 14:34 306 mystery tribute statue to be identified
004309 2008-08-22 09:42 75 Congo Week
004308 2008-08-22 09:10 16 italian-vogues-all-black-issue
004305 2008-08-21 18:41 12055 Fwd: Ligali Alert - August 2008
004301 2008-08-21 11:58 18 commemorative stamp in honour of the life and work of Claudia Jones
004219 2008-07-17 17:48 222 'Ten Commandments' of race and genetics issued
004193 2008-07-07 12:07 111 George Orwell & Slavery
004165 2008-06-27 07:20 154 Fwd: SUPPORT for BLACK Models
004145 2008-06-20 02:46 14 A page to view from a friend
004144 2008-06-20 08:45 46 The secret to black women's success - Study reveals why some sisters triumph against all odds
004114 2008-06-07 15:10 260 Re: London negro road sweeper
004107 2008-06-06 11:31 93 "the black man that swept the crossing"
004067 2008-05-10 07:36 46 Dr. Clovis John Brooks
004044 2008-04-25 08:23 78 Dr Phyllis McPherson-Russell
003996 2008-04-14 06:17 77 Fwd: Crick Crack
003989 2008-04-09 20:06 895 Fwd: Sudden death of E.A (Archie) Markham
003980 2008-04-08 20:11 17 Re: Blacks in the military
003974 2008-04-06 19:27 87 Competences of the 'darker' races in military & medical professions
003934 2008-03-16 08:00 62 Henry Dandies, first Viscount Melville and Lord Advocate in 1807
003873 2008-02-23 09:31 99 ACCESS TO SLAVERY RECORDS - SIGN THE PETITION
003872 2008-02-23 07:31 204 Fwd: The David Oluwale Memorial Appeal
003853 2008-02-19 21:12 74 Boissiere House, Port au Spain, Trinidad
003843 2008-02-15 23:00 47 statues of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines & Henri Christophe
003839 2008-02-14 10:41 49 Australian apology may boost Aboriginal health
003830 2008-02-12 11:40 35 Re: Books for Jamaica
003795 2008-01-17 20:24 59 Poet Roi Kwabena falls to lung cancer
003791 2008-01-15 06:48 101 The Harder They Come returns to the United Kingdom stage this year
003725 2007-12-02 19:26 106 Re: Black man on Nelson's Column
003689 2007-11-27 19:21 51 Re: 3 September 1939
003654 2007-11-05 19:46 121 Are African Caribbean Community organisations becoming extinct?
003646 2007-10-24 06:00 141 Fwd: BHM events in B'ham
003624 2007-10-12 18:04 55 only 18 per cent of black male students in Jamaica go on to University?
003495 2007-09-08 19:58 29 Re: capitalise Black or not?
003460 2007-08-30 11:43 55 Jane Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ & Dido Be lle
003456 2007-08-29 10:06 61 Hertfordshire’s Hidden Histories
003389 2007-08-02 17:04 167 The Guardian: Priest's racist rant posted on YouTube, August 1, 2007
003366 2007-07-29 11:10 193 Re: Black Oxford - shortlisted for national award
003312 2007-07-10 10:02 76 Fwd: UWIPRESS :: Book Review :: Language of Dress
003289 2007-07-03 09:51 318 Irish Independent: History is made as town elects first black mayor
003270 2007-06-26 19:42 17 Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe on BBC Radio 4's Front Row WEDS
003266 2007-06-25 09:05 17 http://www.100blackscreenicons.com
003257 2007-06-23 17:43 17 http://www.comptonhistory.com/
003248 2007-06-21 21:37 71 The Mirror: THE DARK SIDE OF THE REGGAE SUPERSTAR: My husband Bob Marley raped me March 31, 2004, Matt Roper
003247 2007-06-21 21:19 89 graphics of Jamaica's glorious cultural past
003238 2007-06-18 21:45 52 detained and denied entry to UK
003235 2007-06-17 21:36 44 Connie Mark: Community activist and Caribbean champion
003226 2007-06-13 06:11 56 Chinua Achebe
003222 2007-06-11 21:07 46 Ousmane Sembene
003176 2007-05-27 07:18 51 Double standards
003161 2007-05-15 19:20 142 Fwd: ACCESS TO SLAVERY RECORDS - PETITION
003120 2007-04-26 14:40 157 Fwd: Slaves to the Past - debate in London
003096 2007-04-15 07:53 71 Black on Black Violence?
003078 2007-04-08 11:40 23 Abolition 200 Memorial Service: Westminster
003043 2007-04-05 10:35 79 December 1946 black Jamaican serviceman shot in London
003039 2007-04-05 00:30 22 Early Black Presence in Europe
003027 2007-04-01 21:45 20 Re: Olaudah Equiano/ Gustavus Vassa & Joanne Vassa
003015 2007-03-28 01:14 1594 anti slavery medallion
003012 2007-03-27 22:08 2514 emancipation image
003001 2007-03-20 18:36 24793 Fwd: Silent River
002918 2007-02-23 07:58 140 ’In defence of multiculturalism’ by Jenny B ourne, 2007
002894 2007-02-13 17:57 44 IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL - FRI 2 - SUN 4 MAR
002803 2007-01-25 07:56 100 Morality and the Media
002722 2006-12-18 20:09 85 Fwd: RACE ATTACK VICTIM SENTENCED TO 2 _ YEARS
002688 2006-12-12 11:38 76 Birmingham's 'The Drum' to Hold Cultural Quiz Nights
002678 2006-12-10 13:57 60 Black American 'Watch Night Services'
002589 2006-10-27 18:33 29 Re: Fifth Pan-African Congress
002545 2006-10-04 19:36 16 BBC film 'Shoot the Messenger'
002544 2006-10-04 19:33 129 Black Oxford graduates
002508 2006-09-16 22:06 196 early Black Scholars
002375 2006-06-12 20:33 29 Fwd: CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH
002093 2006-02-12 19:34 20 Who's who of Black Achievers
002086 2006-02-02 21:00 68 Charity Week - Slave Auction
002085 2006-02-01 06:38 60 Kenya enraged by 'dog food' aid
002059 2006-01-17 21:54 2036 Re: Peter Lobengula
002027 2005-12-20 23:40 47 Black History Calendar Database of entries
002026 2005-12-19 20:54 11 Fwd: Jamaican Nostalgia
001596 2005-04-28 21:14 96 Re: Goa Maritime Museum.
001569 2005-04-18 06:32 40 Re: Blacks in Ireland
001437 2005-01-28 20:05 26 Black & Asian Doctors & nurses
001404 2004-12-17 15:52 45 Black Britons - A History
001403 2004-12-13 19:54 17 Re: Opportunities in Birmingham
001381 2004-12-02 16:20 11 Sam Selwyn
001377 2004-12-01 14:51 16 American film - Conrad
001344 2004-10-31 21:41 12 Black American Doctors
001280 2004-09-30 09:21 15 Re: What Does 'Creole' Mean?
001261 2004-09-20 20:07 27 Black History Month: Leamington Spa
001238 2004-09-03 13:46 28 Rightism
001101 2004-04-27 19:54 39 Re: Books for review
001089 2004-04-17 13:57 18 first black man to graduate from Oxford University
001086 2004-04-13 17:36 16 Colonial Architecture & Infrastructure
001068 2004-03-23 18:15 14 Information services for British born African-Caribbean users
000789 2003-09-15 13:13 33 FW: PT evening courses in Black History/Caribbean Studies

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Oscar James & The Keskidee Centre, Islington 1970s

In May 2009 Alan Dein made a 30 min programme for BBC Radio 4 on the Keskidee Centre, Islington, established by Oscar James & Rufus Collins (b. Harlem) in the 1970s. The name Keskidee derives from the name of a Caribbean bird.

The programme was repeated on Thurs 7th April 2011 and is available on BBC iplayer

Friday, April 8, 2011

Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams: 1948

In April 2011 BBC World Service’s Witness, a documentary programme, broadcast a 10 minute feature on the obstacles faced by Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, re. their 1948 marriage. The programme included interview clips from Ruth and her elder sister Muriel. Dramatised readings of letters/cables to and from Khama and his father were also included.
Available on BBC iplayer.

Know your enemies: over 6,000 BNP members listed

Know your enemies: over 6,000 BNP members listed

See http://file.wikileaks.info/leak/bnp-membership-list.txt

Sheldon Thomas & Brixton Riots April 1981

Sheldon Thomas – a black youngster who played an active part in the Brixton Riots of April 1981. He features in the BBC Radio 4 documentary programme of 2011, Witness: The Brixton Riots.
Available on BBC iplayer