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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

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,

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

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

Carried by a soulful reggae soundtrack, 'We Are Our Own Liberators' is an educational film which introduces viewers to the Black...

In October, Lawrence Wishart in collaboration with YHP and Meera Shakti Osborne published three school resources as part of their Radical...

When YHP’s latest project on the history of African women in the British health service began , one of our proposed outputs was...

On Wednesday 17th November, the Young Historians Project unveiled the first mural of our project, 'A Hidden History: African women in the British health service', at Royal United Hospital Bath. When this project began in 2018, we searched for an impactful, educative, and creative way of presenting this history. This led us to plan a series of commemorative murals centred around portraits of under-appreciated historic women. YHP worked with Heritage Interpreter and Bristol–bas

This month I met Dr Cecilia Anim, the first Black president of the Royal College of Nursing, at the Inclusion Café. The Inclusion Café...

As we reach a quarter of the way through our current project, ' A Hidden History: African Women and the British Health Service 1930 –...

The Young Historians Project is excited to announce that we've been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This will allow us to...

Sometime in January 2017, my friend and I decided to attend an on-campus event hosted by the Black, Social, Political Society (BSPS)....

A groundbreaking people-powered project encouraging the development of Young Historians of African and Caribbean Heritage in Britain.