Poppies Although many Remembrance events will have taken place over the weekend, the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month will be marked by many with two minutes’ silence during which we will remember the Fallen from the two World...

Although many Remembrance events will have taken place over the weekend, the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month will be marked by many with two minutes

Claudia Jones Claudia Jones founded the first major black post- war newspaper -The West Indian Gazette; and also helped launch the Notting Hill Carnival.? Claudia Jones was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1915 Cladia moved with her family to...

Sarah Forbes Bonetta Sarah Forbes was a Yoruba girl captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a war in which her parents were killed. She was given as a present to Commander Forbes when he was visited Dahomey as an emissary of the British...

Francis Barber Francis Barber was a servant and companion to the writer Samuel Johnson.? Francis Barber was born in Jamaica around 1735. He came to Britain with a planter from the island. For one year he went to school in the small village of Barton...