London's Black history

The determined businesswoman and caregiver who looked after troops at war

The south-east Londoner writes diverse fictional worlds for young people of all ages

How much do we know about the people in medieval London?

This Croydon-born cultural titan has used his enormous success to challenge inequality

Beauty queens and Black Panthers

The author of White Teeth and The Fraud uses Brent as her canvas

After gaining his freedom, this 18th-century writer became one of the first Black voters in Britain

London’s biggest street festival is a celebration of Caribbean culture and Black identity

A city home to people from Turkey, Germany and Greece

Campaigner, community builder, champion of LGBTQ+ rights

A vital narrative of enslavement that boosted the abolitionist movement

One of the most talented, but long overlooked, photographers of 20th-century Britain

The artists who built a scene and took it worldwide

This Oscar-winning west Londoner has made vital films about London’s people and history

A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans

In the 1970s and 1980s, London became the centre of Jamaica’s bassier, spacier sound