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When historians dig deeply into local archives, many towns and cities often have at least one or two notorious skeletons in their historical cupboards, individuals who represent the darker side of the past, usually people who current-day citizens would prefer to forget. In March, 1925, a number of local and regional newspapers in Britain gave some coverage to the racist claim...
Back in 2014-2015 I spent some time in the archives investigating a still relatively under-researched aspect of women’s history, the anti-Suffrage groups that had emerged in Edwardian Britain.
How did this come about? My general research on British history had focused on the collation of material on middle-class ‘defence’ and protest movements in south-west London and ...
In May 2025 the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported that a brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow....
It is Black History Month and, as part of this, let’s take a look at the responses to, and experiences of, some of the first black migrants in the south-west London area, often called the ‘Windrush generation’. The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, London, in 1948, was – in hindsight – a key moment in early British postwar history. The now-famous ship ...
Black History Month during October presents a great opportunity to explore and further enhance our knowledge about the lives of people such as Cesar Picton and other Africans in Georgian London. Indeed, recent years have seen some exciting new research by scholars on Picton and his contemporaries.
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