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On the 8th of August 2026, the Young Historians Project premiered our film titled 'Documenting the East London Black Women's Organisation: The Early Years' at the ELBWO centre in Forest Gate. Our journey with ELBWO began in the lead-up to its 45th anniversary. In 2024, we began meeting with the founders, members, supporters, and families of ELBWO to develop a picture of its history. YHP then created two project outputs: a documentary and a digital archive. We filmed oral hist

Jason Arday in 2024. The Young Historians Project is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Arday. Jason Arday was a professor at the University of Cambridge, where he worked in the sociology department from 2023 to 2026. He resigned following allegations of plagiarism and claims that he had fabricated academic and personal achievements. In the wake of mounting controversy, Arday resigned from his post at the University of Cambridge on the 5th of August 2026. In a statement

On the 14th April 2025, myself and a few other YHP members attended the memorial of a longtime friend of YHP, collaborator and pioneer...

As a trainee history teacher, the ways in which Black history is taught in British schools has long troubled me. Whilst some progress has...

In August 2024, YHP interviewed Marika Sherwood; a renowned historian, writer, educator, and activist. Marika is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and has worked as an academic researcher in New York, Sydney, London, and New Guinea. Her vast collection of publications, including Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (1999) and After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 (2007), demonstrate her lifelong commitment to Black history. In 1991,

This May, members of the Young Historians Project travelled to the University of Amsterdam to present our work at a symposium organised...

Born in Guyana in 1944, Bernie Grant was a dedicated community organiser, trade unionist, founder of the African Reparations Movement (ARM UK) and one of Britain's first Black Members of Parliament. He emigrated from Georgetown to join his family in north London in 1963. Back home in the Caribbean, Grant had been inspired by radio reports on anti–colonial struggle and liberation movements across Africa and the Caribbean. This greatly influenced his activism and politics into

At the beginning of March, I was invited to represent the Young Historians Project at a conference on 'Archives and Decolonial Pedagogy'...

I have found the Young Historians Project (YHP) to be a group in which there are many opportunities to grow and immerse yourself in things outside of your comfort zone. Not only do we pride ourselves in making our members become leaders of YHP in their own right, but we also ensure that members have additional opportunities to thrive and find themselves as researchers and writers. Whether that’s in archives, podcasting, speaking at conferences, or teaching history workshops a

Last year, two of our members visited the Black Cultural Archives to view some archival material for our research project titled 'Each One, Teach One': The Foundations of Black British History'. Below, they have written an account of their experiences. Reflections from Amouraé: David and I arranged a trip to the Black Cultural Archives to find out more about the African Caribbean Education Resource Project (ACER) founded by Len Garrison in 1977. This was spurred on by me stum

Many falsehoods have been disseminated about the arrival of African and Caribbean communities in Britain, and by extension, the Black...

In June 2023, YHP ran a history workshop in collaboration with Blemme Fatale Productions , a theatre organisation aiming to 'heal the...