Black Networking Group

About us
Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) was established in 2006 to raise awareness and address the stigma associated with mental illness.
The aim of our work is to see a reduction in the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities who use mental health services, and to inform these communities on [...]

The International Slavery Museum explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery, addressing the many legacies of the slave trade and telling stories of bravery and rebellion amongst the enslaved people. These are stories which have been largely untold.
For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced [...]

See www.plymoutharmedforcesweek.co.uk or www.pafw.co.uk      
 
Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. Free.
 
Highlights the often under-recognised contributions made by men and women from Africa, Asia, the West Indies and other Commonwealth countries to Defence over 250 years.
 

 
Alongside From War to Windrush, the Imperial War Museum is also launching a new online exhibition as part of the Their Past Your Future programme entitled Through My Eyes: Stories of Conflict, Belonging and Identity. The exhibition will illustrate the ways in which various twentieth century conflicts have made people rethink or reaffirm their own [...]

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, this exhibition will tell the personal stories of the involvement of Black men and women from the West Indies and Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.2377
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Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most romantic of the SOE agents and one whose suitability to be sent into the field has often been questioned. The great-great-grandaughter of the legendary Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Muslim ruler who died in the struggle to stem the British conquest of Southern India.
 
http://www.64-baker-street.org/agents/agent_fany_noor_inayat_khan.html
 
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Moving Here explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, regional and national archives, libraries and [...]

Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects, designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public.
 
http://www.iniva.org/
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A pilot web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK. You can use the CASBAH web site to search and browse their database and to view the full text survey reports. It is based upon research in the main collections relevant to these areas of [...]

BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVES and MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY have together created a new organisation – the ARCHIVES and MUSEUM of BLACK HERITAGE (AMBH). With funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, AMBH has embarked on a major programme of outreach and education, cataloguing, research and exhibitions relating to the history of the black diaspora presence in Britain.
 
http://www.aambh.org.uk/html/home.htm