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12 Months of
Black British History
Learning about Black British figures past and present who have made history.
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What are we doing today?
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Being creative learning about collage art.
Creating collages about Black British people,
month by month for a school display.
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Work together to co-create your images and share
back to the class what you have learnt today to celebrate black history.
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QUICK WARM UP:
Stand up stretch, warm up upper board, wake up, wriggle fingers arms, wrists loosen up and
get ready to get creative!
NEXT: Draw the person next to you without looking down-
2 mins each!
COLLAGE ART
Collage is an art form which is made up of overlapping pieces of material, such as photographs, fabric, coloured and textured paper and other types of mixed media..
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What is Collage Art?
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There are four types of collage art: Papier colle, Decollage, Montage, Photomontage.
The term collage was coined around 1910 by the two pioneers of the Cubist movement, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
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Types of Collage Art
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Papier Colle
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Montage
Photomontage
Decollage
Lets’ share what we already know about
Black British History or Black History month...
...anything at all?
British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria - January 1970
He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Olusoga began his television career as a researcher on the 1999 BBC series Western Front. His most recent TV series include Black and British: A Forgotten History, The World's War, A House Through Time and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners.
He is the author of the 2016 book Black and British: A Forgotten History,
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to history and to community integration.
January:
David Olusoga OBE
February: Lilian Bader
Born 18 February 1918
She was one of the first Black women to join the British armed forces.
In 1939, at the onset of the Second World War, Bader enlisted in the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire.
She was dismissed after seven weeks when it was discovered that her father was not born in the United Kingdom.
On 28 March 1941, she enlisted in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), after she heard that the Royal Air Force (RAF) were taking citizens of West Indian descent.
She then became a Leading Aircraft Woman and was eventually promoted to the rank of corporal.
Born 13 March 1954
British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
She served as British High Commissioner to Australia
Serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
In 2003, Amos became the first Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)
woman to serve as a Cabinet minister.
Since September 2020, Amos has been Master of University College, Oxford,
succeeding Sir Ivor Crewe and becoming the first-ever black head of an Oxford college, as well as the first woman to head that college.
March: Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, LG, CH, PC
Born 28 April 1888
English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent.
His professional football when he had signed for Clapton in October 1908, reportedly never playing in a losing side.
At the age of 21, Tull signed for Football League First Division team, Tottenham Hotspur, in the summer of 1909, after a close-season tour of Argentina and Uruguay, making him the first mixed-heritage professional footballer to play in Latin America.
On 21 October 2021, Tull was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame of the National Football Museum.
April: Walter Daniel John Tull
Born (22 May 1970)English fashion model, she was born in Lambeth, South London of Black-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent.
Beginning her career at the age of 15, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press.
In 1989, she appeared on the cover of American Vogue, which marked the first time a black model graced the front of the September magazine, traditionally the year's biggest and most important issue.
Throughout her career, Campbell has been outspoken against the racial
bias that exists in the fashion industry.
In 2013, Campbell joined fellow black models Iman and Bethann Hardison in an advocacy group called "Diversity Coalition". They named high-profile designers who used just one or no models of color in their fall 2013 shows, calling it a "racist act".
May: Naomi Elaine Campbell,
June: John Richard Archer
Born 8 June 1863 - 14 July 1932)
In 1919 he was a British delegate to the Pan-African Congress in Paris and two years later, chaired the Pan-African Congress in London.
Archer had been thought to be the first Black man to be elected as a mayor in Britain.
In April 2013 Archer was one of six people selected by Royal Mail for the "Great Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue.
Archer was born in Liverpool of Barbadian and Irish heritage.
Born (born 26 July 1993). He is a British rapper with Ghanaian background, singer and songwriter. Stormzy won Best Grime Act at the 2014 and 2015 MOBO Awards and was named as an artist to look out for in the BBC's Sound of 2015 list.
Stormzy's headline appearance on the Pyramid Stage at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival was widely praised.
His set made him the first black British rapper to headline the Glastonbury Festival.
Stormzy has funded the "Stormzy Scholarship for Black UK Students" at
the University of Cambridge, covering tuition costs for two students and maintenance grants for up to four years.
In 2022 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter for his work to promote education and fighting racial inequality.
July: Stormzy (Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr.
Born 16 August 1939.
He is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN.
After working as a print and broadcast journalist in Trinidad during the 1960s, in 1969, McDonald was employed by BBC Radio as a producer, based in London but still broadcasting to the Caribbean.
McDonald was promoted in 1992 as the sole presenter of News at Ten and
became a well-known face on British television screens.
From 1999 to 2007, McDonald hosted ITV's flagship current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald.
He was awarded with "Special Recognition" at the National Television Awards in 2003 and with a BAFTA fellowship at the 2011 British Academy Television Awards.
August: Sir Trevor Lawson McDonald OBE
She was born 27 September 1953.
From British-Jamaican family she is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987.
Abbott's speech on civil liberties, in the debate on the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008, won The Spectator magazine's "Parliamentary Speech of the Year" award, and further recognition at the 2008 Human Rights awards.
She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020.
She is both the first black woman elected to parliament and the longest-serving black MP.
September: Diane Abbot
British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black Britishteenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993.
Following the murder of their son Stephen in 1993, Doreen and Neville Lawrenceclaimed that the Metropolitan Police investigation was not being conducted ina professional manner, citing incompetence and racism as prime flaws.In the aftermath of the inquiry, Lawrence continued to campaign for justice for her son as well as for other victims of racist crime. She has worked to secure further reformsof the police service.
In 2003, she was awarded the OBE for services to community relations.
She founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to promote a positive community legacy in her son's name.
She is a patron of hate crime charity Stop Hate UK.
October: Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness
She was born in Jamaica to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skill.
As well as being a doctress – a female doctor who can cure illnesses with local herbs and medicines – Mary was also a businesswoman and set up hotels and shopsthroughout her life.
In the 1800s, it was considered unusual for a woman to travel alone. However, Mary was very independent and ended up writing a book about all her solo travels called Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands.
This became the first-ever autobiography published by a free black woman in the British empire.
A statue of Mary Seacole sits outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London and is believed to be the first in the UK to honour a black woman. In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
November: Mary Jane Seacole
British actor born in Birmingham with Barbadian heritage.
He is known for his television appearances on Ballykissangel, The Vice and Fat Friends. He played Don Coleman in Hustle (Series 7 The Fall of Railton FC (2011).
In 1997, he was the first black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre in London.
Harewood is an advocate of the British government apologising for Britain’s participation in the slave trade. His great-great-great-great grandparents had been slaves on a plantation in Barbados owned by Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
Harewood was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.
December: David Harewood
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