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Today’s #googledoodle honours #CliveSullivan Welsh rugby player & the first Black captain of a major British sports team. Clive was born in Cardiff, his mother’s family came from Antigua & his father’s from Jamaica. Today would have been his 78th birthday #AllOurStories @google
#OTD 1904 Jamaican-born Dr #HaroldMoody came to UK to study medicine at @KingsCollegeLon living (from 1913) in Peckham. He fought against racism his entire life, setting up League of Coloured Peoples in 1931. He also features in our upcoming exhibition... #HoTN #GoogleDoodle
On this day 246 years ago, African American author Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems was published in London #OTD: https://t.co/Ohcfgquo7I
John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child #AllOurStories #BlackBritishHistory
Interesting concert in Clapham tonight - a contemporary musical exploration of London's Irish inheritance
Today's #GoogleDoodle features Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened the 1st Indian restaurant in Britain, introduced shampoo to Europe + was the first Indian to publish a book in English in 1794. A reminder of the long history of migration that has shaped who we are as a nation.