A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Britain commemorating black people and events through the ages.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
BBC History Project
Bill Richmond, freed slave, boxer, entrepreneur, spent the last evening of hi...
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020:...
Black trumpeter John Blanke musician at the courts of Henry VII & Henry V...
A non-political, non-sectarian, cultural and social organisation which promotes and fosters fellowship and goodwill among Cornish people in London and elsewhere.
William Beckham is the boy lying on his side on the left at the front in the photograph of the scout troop. He was one of the ten children of William John Beckham (1870-1917) and Harriett Beckham...
From their website: "The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The purpose of the Society is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish ...
Founder of the Kensington Society, lived at 18 Kensington Square. When she failed to stop the replacement of some houses in Young Street with an aggressively modern multi-storey car park she formed...
Poet and writer. Born Siegfried Loraine (also spelt Lorraine or Louvain depending on source) Sassoon at Weirleigh, Brenchley, near Paddock Wood, Kent. Grandson of Thomas Thornycroft and cousin of S...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France
The Angola Three arch is above the first floor window on the left. The Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore flying eyeball is at the right below the 2nd...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
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