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Today’s honours 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

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2021-04-10

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

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2019-08-05