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Black Presence

BNG — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:41:42 +0000

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history.

The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet.

I was studying politics at the time, the course included a history module called; ” The black Presence in Britain 1550-present day”.

Whilst doing my research I found a serious lack of Black British info online. So, I decided to build my own site where this information could be documented. The site has had many incarnations since then. ?I built the first version of it using Netscape composer, later moving on to Dreamweaver. Today the site uses comtent management software.

http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/

Facebook Petition for awarding Walter Tull a Posthumous Military Cross.

BNG — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:55:30 +0000

Walter Tull

Walter Tull was born in Folkestone on 28th April 1888. His father was a carpenter from Barbados who had moved to Folkestone and married a local woman. By the age of nine, Walter had lost both his parents, and when he was 10 he and his brother Edward were sent to a Methodist orphanage in Bethnal Green. His brother left the orphanage two years later, was adopted by a Scottish family and became a dentist. Meanwhile, Walter played for the orphanage football team, and in 1908, began playing for Clapton FC. Within a few months he had won winners’ medals in the FA Amateur Cup, London County Amateur Cup and London Senior Cup. In March 1909 the Football Star called him ‘the catch of the season’.

In 1909 he signed as a professional for Tottenham Hotspur, and experienced for the first time spectator racism when Spurs travelled to play Bristol City. According to one observer, ‘a section of the spectators made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate.’

He was the first British-born black army officer and the first black officer to lead white British troops into battle.

For more see:- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33844959524

PLEASE SUPPORT THE WALTER TULL CAMPAIGN BY SIGNING THE ONLINE PETITIONS:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/waltertull/index.html

Below an online petition calling on Spurs FC to erect a memorial to Walter Tull as part of the redevelopment of the White Hart Lane ground. It is an ideal opportunity to honour his memory and the suggestion is a conventional statue that will be a constant visible reminder to the local community and all visiting supporters of this remarkable man’s life.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/waltertullmemorialTHFC

Phil Vasili’s ‘The History of Black Footballers’ web site.

BNG — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:11:56 +0000

Hassan Hegazi (front row, extreme left) at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge.

This is a non-profit-making web site intended as a resource for people interested in the subject.

All the information you need to know about the exhibition which is currently touring the UK is in the section of the same name. In the Illustrations section, you will find a number of rare downloadable photographs.

http://www.vasili.co.uk/