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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
The next story from #RoomtoBreathe we would like to dedicate to all the nurses, doctors and NHS staff working so hard for us all at this time...1/3
Image credit 📷:Peter Marlow
#AllOurStories #virtualmuseum #museumathome
Shopping the January sales - Central London via Tuscany? Did you know the design of Covent Garden was influenced by town planning of Piazza San Marco in Venice & Piazza d’Arme in Tuscany. Designer Inigo Jones, was one of the first to intro a square as centrepiece #AllOurStories
Recruitment of Nepalis into the British army began over 200yrs ago but it was only 2009 they were given the right to settle in the UK. To mark a decade since the law changed read Krishna P Adhikari’s guestblog - A Nepali in Victorian England https://t.co/bJC1QxqJfv #AllOurStories
We are excited to announce we will be hosting the Migration Museum’s Family History Day in partnership with @UkNatArchives @nationaltrust & @LdnMetArchives on Sat 2 Nov. Unlock your family's story with workshops, talks, installations & more! https://t.co/NvCyu2xrOv #AllOurStories
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
Our #MigrantsMeanBusiness series in assoc with @Allianz continues on 1Jul with Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE in conversation w/ @georgealagiah OBE. The series provides insight into the personal and professional stories of some of the UK's most influential business figures. Tweet for info
Our artist in residence Belén L. Yañez has created a series of beautiful hand-made masks which have illuminated the art studio in our #RoomtoBreathe exhibition. Wear one of these masks and join her this Thursday for Awakening, an immersive morality play: https://t.co/LFuzAPUUI7