2025-04-25
31 分钟This is The Guardian. Today, Lanre Bakery on Black British history beyond London.
For most people, their Black British history is limited to a few big landmark moments.
The docking of Empire Windrush in 1948.
Notting Hill race riots in 1958.
The injured victim, a Jamaican, is taken to safety.
But the police have not been able to reach all the trouble spots so promptly.
Brixton in 1981, when there was more unrest or uprising.
The murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
The investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence,
by institutional racism, and by a failure of leadership by senior officers.
Growing up in the 1990s, this is what Lanre Bakery learned about too.
But growing up in Bradford,
he knew instinctively that these events only told part of the story of Black British history.
They all happen in the capital, they all happen in London,
and that's not the full story by any stretch.
Black history on these islands is found absolutely everywhere.
Edinburgh Leaf up by the docks in Bradford, my hometown.
Liverpool's got the oldest Black community in the UK, established in the 1750s.
So there's a whole world out there.
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement,