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Asking Darcus. Ep. 3: The Devil's Advocate

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Asking Darcus. Ep 2. Darcus Howe: Caribbean Global Consciousness to Black Power in Britain

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Asking Darcus. Ep 1: Who is Darcus Howe?

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150: Goodbye for now. The History Hotline live show ft. Dr Jade Bentil

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149: The Caribbean and the Second World War with Colin Douglas

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148: Deportation and Immigration ft. Hannah Gaffey

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147: Archiving Black Life with Rebecca Adams

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146: Pardna ft. Paul Henriques

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145: Jamaican Teachers and the Windrush Scandal

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144: Current Reads

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143: A longer history of the far right

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142: Policing Notting Hill Carnival

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141: Policing and Black People

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140: The far right in 2024

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139: The Forgotten Generations ft. Donald Campbell

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138: Children's Literature ft. Kandace Chimbiri

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137: Immigration and Norman Manley's visit to Birmingham, 1961

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136: All Eyes on Rafah

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135: The Black People's Day of Action (1981)

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134: Academic Life, PhDs and Jamaican Women ft. Alexandria Miller

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133: How did bun and cheese become a Good Friday staple?

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132: Vybz Kartel and the Privy Council

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131: Bob Marley One Love, An Additional History

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130: Benjamin Zephaniah: Activism and Integrity

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129: The Race Relations Act, 1965

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128: Michael Abbensetts and Empire Road, pt II

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127: What is happening to Guyana?

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126: Michael Abbensetts and Empire Road

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125: Literature and Publishing ft Ama Badu

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124: The Christena ship crash, St Kitts and Nevis

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123: Britons can’t name a single Black British historical figure?

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122: Heritage, History and Critical Thinking

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121: Black Voice Survey and New Books

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120: Mary Prince

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119: A Black British History Conference

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118: The BPM and Intergenerational Activism ft. Hannah Francis

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117: My PhD research

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116: Carriacou Big Drum Dance ft. Raafeke

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115: 'Carnival Queen' at the first London Carnival, 1959.

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114: University of Chichester Suspends Black History Masters Course

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113: Windrush75 Reflections

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112: The Windrush Scandal pt. II

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111: The Windrush Scandal pt. I

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110: John Richard Archer

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109: The 1900 Pan African Conference

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108: Reflections on Jamaica

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107: How we do Black British History ft. Prof. Hakim Adi

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106: The League of Coloured Peoples (LCP)

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105: Dr Harold Moody

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104: Stephen Lawrence: 30 Years On

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103: British State Surveillance featuring Perry Blankson

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102: The 1848 Chartist Demonstration

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101: William Cuffay and the Chartist Movement

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100: Reflecting on 100 episodes of The History Hotline

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099: Why is everyone on strike?

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098: White Women Listen: Intersectionality and Black Women in History

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097: Dr Martin Luther King in Britain

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096: Radical Black Women featuring Tionne Parris

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095: Henry "Box" Brown's Escape From Enslavement

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094: The Great Escape From Enslavement of Ellen and William Craft

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093: The many functions of racism

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092: Caribbean Christmas Fruit Cake

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091: Richard Drax and the Legacy of Enslavement in Barbados

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090: The British West India Regiment Mutiny during WWI

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089: The West India Regiment Mutiny in Dominica

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088: West India Regiment

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087: The History Matters Journal featuring A.S. Francis

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086: African Slave Traders

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085: Racism in Football

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084: What will happen to the Commonwealth?

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083: BLM in the UK: RIP Chris Kaba

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082: Fort Charles, Britain's colonial legacy

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081: Windrush Monument: Empty Gesture?

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080: Windrush Day: What are we celebrating?

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079: Patty vs Patty

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078: Was Winston Churchill Racist?

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077: Michael X in Trinidad

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076: Michael X in Britain

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075: Honouring David Oluwale

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074: The Ivory Bangle Lady

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073: Darcus Howe

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072: Black Face and Minstrelsy in Britain

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071: The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act

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070: Jamaica: The Next Republic?

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069: ChildQ and the Adultification of Black Girls

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068: Olive Morris

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067: The Brixton Black Women's Group

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066: Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) visits London, 1967.

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065: Did the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act impact Caribbean Migration to the US?

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064: What was the relationship like between Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and African Americans in early 20th Century America?

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063: Caribbean Immigration to the US

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062: What happened to Black Germans under the Nazis?

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061: Desmond's and Black representation on TV

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060: Why do we need to be concerned about the Nationality and Borders Bill?

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059: Did Edward Colston’s statue need to be dragged down?

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058: Britain's first Black bookshop: New Beacon Books

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057: Sorrel aka Roselle Juice aka Bissap aka Hibiscus Drink

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056: Guyanese Pepperpot

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055: Barbados: A New Republic

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054: Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' Speech