Patrick Vernon OBE launches a new petition to demand that compensation for victims of the Windrush scandal be fair and without caps Read More
Windrush and migration stories must become part of a national narrative of Britain | Windrush 70th Anniversary series
Patrick Vernon describes the need to include Windrush stories in our public imagination of how modern Britain was built in the third article in a series curated for Windrush Day by Kiri Kankhwende Read More
100 Great Black Britons relaunches for 2017
On the 30th anniversary of Black History Month, Patrick Vernon talks about why he’s relaunching the campaign and explains how to nominate Read More
Celebrating the life and times of J A Rogers – one of the leading Black historians of all time
by Patrick Vernon After my recent article on the absence of black historians and the growing network of independent black scholars, I felt I wanted to share one of my personal heroes who embodies the characteristics and challenges that black historians face today. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Joel Augustus Rogers,… Read More
Where are all the Black historians?
Black historians in the UK: the unseen scholars by Patrick Vernon BBC Radio 4’s Making History programme recently considered the plight of black historians, taking six minutes to explore the question of whether black historians exist in the UK. A number of white historians gave their perspectives on the issue but the views of… Read More
Black Lives Matter: International Decade for People of African Descent
by Patrick Vernon With the ongoing state police killing of black youth, men and women in the USA; Ebola, climate change, and Islamic led terrorism in Africa; fragile economies of the Caribbean; and growing health, economic and political social inequality in the UK and mainland Europe we are starting to feel like an endangered species!!!… Read More
The Price Tag on Slavery is Beyond Pounds and Dollars
By Patrick Vernon CARICOM, an organisation representing fifteen Caribbean countries, is in the process of taking legal action against the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark in pursuit of reparation for the enduring suffering caused by the Atlantic slave trade. A ten point plan which will form the basis of the… Read More
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