Author: Stephen Bourne

Did you know that Black people from around the world helped Britain fight in the First World War?How heroic were the people who fought?Why did Blac...

The television set the humble box in the corner of almost every British household has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern ...

Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the S...

In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the mother country ...

Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to ...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through t...

During the Second World War, black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in figh...