The History Hotline

In the aftermath of WWI, many ex-servicemen were left without work in many of the major port cities. We'll explore how this led to race riots in cities such as Cardiff, Glasgow and: Liverpool and look at the treatment Black ex-servicemen received after the war. TW: Violence, Lynching, Murder.

During World War One Black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core. We'll be highlighting the stories of three servicemen: David Louis Clemetson, George Bemand and Walter Tull, who were all at some point thought to be the first Black officer in the forces. Their stories in some ways run parallel but also highlight, how societies defined race and your personal identity, might not match.

Learie Constantine, MBE was a West Indian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. This week we'll be looking at his landmark case in British race relations against the Imperial London Hotel.

On this weeks episode we will be reacting to Kemi Badenoch's (MP and Minister for Equalities) speech at the parliamentary Black History Month debate. Exploring BLM, white privilege, critical race theory and the way they exist within society today. We'll also be briefly looking at the way these things are taught in schools and how they should be taught... and the consequences of that.

This week will be shifting our focus to Nigeria and contextualising the current End SARS protests within the colonial history of the country. We'll be exploring the links with colonialism and corruption, which continues to plague countries within the continent of Africa. We will also be hearing from Nigerians across the diaspora about what the movement means to them and what we can do to help further it.

Opening track by Fikky: @Fikkyofficial on Instagram and Twitter

//TW: violence, torture, rape.

As the Presidential campaign rages on in the US, and debates of who can identify as 'Black' rage on we'll be discussing the social construction of race. This episode will take us on a global journey of how race has been classified in different parts of the world, from Caribbean slave societies to the American South and ending up in Modern Britain.

Britain had Black Panthers? Who were they? What did they stand for? This week's episode is about the British Black Panthers, we'll be exploring their influences, their politics and what they managed to achieve as a community organisation.

Why is it important to celebrate Black History Month? What should those celebrations look like? How does that impact the teaching of Black History throughout the rest of the year? This episode is asking and answering questions about Black History Month in Britain, and tapping into some of the key debates surrounding its existence.

This week's episode is centred around Beryl Gilroy who was one of Britain's first Black Headteachers. We contextualise her story based on her autobiography Black Teacher (1976) by studying the way Britain remembers Black women in the pages of their history books.

Today we're looking at Educationally Subnormal (ESN) schools that were opened in Britain in the 1960s and the impact they had on Black children. We're also exploring the impact and importance of Bernard Coard's 'How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System?' and studying the legacy of the supplementary school.