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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, YHP interviewed Marika Sherwood; a renowned historian, writer, educator, and activist. Marika is a Senior Research Fellow at...

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 ...

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...

Last year, two of our members visited the Black Cultural Archives to view some archival material for our research project titled 'Each...

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...

In February, the Young Historians Project attended a podcasting workshop with Weyland McKenzie , a writer and producer actively pushing...

Earlier last December, I represented the Young Historians Project at my first official event. Alongside a screening of our documentary on...