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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 the Black Liberation Front, Amelia and I gave a presentation on YHP and answered questions about its work. During the introduction, I had mentioned that I had been a part of YHP since August of 2022, and it was not until that moment that I had considered how long that actually was. Six months into my work at YHP, and I still felt relatively

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

This article was originally published on Substack by Ruben E. Darrel, on 7th October 2023. Author's Dedication: The following instalment of the KKK in the Midlands series will be dedicated to the late Avtar Jouhl, the former President of the Indian Workers Association, who passed away on October 7th 2022. Avtar Jouhl dedicated his life to political activism by fighting the Colour-Bar and Fascism, uniting black peoples and meeting Malcolm X in Smethwick. Acts through which he

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

As a History student and long time lover of the subject, it’s often hard to imagine that there are young people who are somewhat...

This article was originally published on Substack by Ruben E. Darrel, on 7th October 2023. Author's note: This short series was inspired by research found in the course of researching for YHP’s upcoming project titled ‘Housing Black Britain’. Whilst this project aims to chart the development of Black British housing initiatives and associations, the following blog series explores the terror enacted upon Black people in Birmingham, where the British Ku Klux Klan attacked Black

This past June, the Young Historians Project visited Queen's College in Marylebone to deliver an afternoon workshop on our project ‘A...

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

On May 23rd 2022, Channel 4 presented the British public with Troy Deeney: “Where’s My History?” This 60-minute documentary, hosted by footballer Troy Deeney, explored the lack of Black history taught in schools across the UK. In response to this documentary, YHP would like to offer some comments – and share a little about our work and history up until this point. We believe it is important to emphasise that YHP has been working towards similar goals since 2014, and we warmly

For Black History Month 2021, the Young Historians Project was invited to guest lecture at Kings College London in front of an audience of social science undergraduates. To get a flavour of the students' general knowledge, I opened the lecture with a simple question: ‘What do you know about Black British History?’ I encouraged them to write down some examples to discuss later. The aim was not to embarrass or chastise anyone for their lack of knowledge, instead it was an oppor