I'll be at the Museums + Heritage Show & Awards 15-16 May, Olympia London! Register for your free two-day pass to join me. See you there! invt.io/1txb490yafu #MandHShow

From Open University Starter Pack in 2004 to Honorary Doctorate in 2024 thank all who have been on the journey with me.... veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honora… #OUFamily #OpenUniverstity #Humanities #HumanitesMatter #StayWoke

Wk 1 great start - we're nearing half our crowdfunding goal with 3 wks left! 🚀 Still time to #MakeHistory BIG thanks to those who already have! 🙏 Join us & be part of the #JohnBlanke story. #LetsMakeHistory crowdfunder.co.uk/p/publishing-t…

Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA in partnership with Black History Walks
Black History Walks online talk on the Black Presence in the art of #JoshuaReynolds & #WilliamHogarth first given at the @RoyalAcademy of Art #BlackPresence in #BritishArt

Amazing find from the Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Library archives. Fascinating 1928 correspondence between Marcus Garvey and Vice-Adm ret. Wm. Henderson on a host of thought-provoking subjects.
Kudos to Katherine Oxley for unearthing this.
rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/l…

#BHM2023 :
1000 years of Black Women Lives in London - Steve
Martin

26 Oct

Everyone Active, Acton Library
London W3 6NE

Steve Martin (author) will introduce a spectrum of Black women’s lives from 1000+ years of London’s history.

bit.ly/3ZFgCkb

S.I. Martin

The BP2 Podcast Episode 7 renaming of Joshua Reynolds 1783 portrait “Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington” now known as “Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington, and Marcus Richard Fitzroy Thomas” thanks to folk at West Sussex Archives & YaleBritishArt bit.ly/TheBP2Podcast_…

⭐️Special night in a special venue for Sancho ... and me. Thank you all Thorney Island Society+ Friends of St James’s Park and especially the staff at St Margaret''s Church Westminster Abbey. As for Meera from Round Table Books in Brixton Round Table Books CIC I am a SUPERFAN! ⭐️ Dialogue Publishing

Joshua Reynold's Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington, and Marcus Thomas discussed will feature in the next #BP2Podcast

#BlackAtlantic : Power, People, Resistance. Opens tomorrow Fitzwilliam Museum fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visi…

What a brilliant piece of research to recover the identity of the Black Boy - Marcus Thomas - in Reynolds painting...

Celebrating 200th anniversary of the death of Billy Waters, Episode 6 of the BP2 Podcast S.I. Martin & #TemiOdumosu discuss The New Union Club cartoon. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: search The PB2 Podcast or download fm The PB2 Podcast website spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/AqZ8C3Te9yb

Jamaican WW2 Airman Ex-Flt. Sgt. Peter Brown #JamaicanWW2Airman died alone in his Westminster flat on ​17 Dec 22 No one has claimed his body - He has no known relatives his funeral will take place at Mortlake Crematorium on 12pm 29 Mar for details goto
jamacianww2airman.weebly.com

What a great find so many questions the folk in The BP2 Podcast will be real interested to help understand and position the work...

A fitting memorial to the #IgnatiusSancho #BlackGeorgian businessman, actor, musician, celebrity, friend of then great&good, man of letters in a place he knew well #100BlackBritains

.Marjorie H Morgan discusses the visible invisibility of Black people in aristocratic portraiture ⬇️

'Elizabeth Murray (1626–1698), Lady Tollemache, Later Countess of Dysart & Duchess of Lauderdale with a Black Servant' by Peter Lely (1618–1680) 📸National Trust Images Ham House

Good to have the first live in person #WHBBH in eighteen months - look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones #F2F

Available now The BP2 Podcast Episode 5 John Blanke
with Dr. Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru @Michael1952 with Prof Gretchen Gerzina available from your favourite podcast platform or anchor.fm/the-bp2-podcas……

Available now The BP2 Podcast Episode 4 John Simpson (exhibited 1827) Head of a Man (?Ira Frederick Aldridge) from Tate Britain's collection with Dr Janet Couloute and Dr Martin Myrone with Prof Gretchen Gerzina from your favourite podcast platform or anchor.fm/the-bp2-podcas…

Available now BP2 Podcast Episode 3 Dr Jan Marsh discusses Gabriel Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865/66) 'The Beloved' from Tate Britain's collection with Dr Caroline Bressey Dr Caroline Bressey and Prof Gretchen Gerzina from your favourite podcast platform anchor.fm/the-bp2-podcas…