The author of Black Poppies, shares details of his best-selling book on Black people in World War 1 and the amazing Dr Cecil Belfield-Clarke.
Black History Walks will unveil a Nubian Jak Blue Plaque on 12th April 2023 in honour of Dr Cecil Belfield-Clarke;1900s Cambridge scholar, inventor, Barbadian, Combermerian, Pan Africanist, Leauge of Coloured Peoples co-founder, we present a talk and Q&A on his legacy, World War 1 and Black soldiers
Stephen Bourne is the author of Black Poppies, an acclaimed study of the Black presence in Britain during the First World War. Bourne illuminates fascinating stories of black servicemen of African heritage. These accounts of the fights for their 'Mother Country' are charted from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the conflict's aftermath in 1919,.
To find out more about Dr Cecil Belfied-Clarke read 'Black History Walks in London Volume 1' by Tony Warner. This is part of Black publishing house, Jacaranda Books revolutionary Twenty in 2020 initiative to publish 20 books by 20 Black British authors in 2020. An unprecedented feat. 'Black History Walks in London Volume 1' is the 20th of that series but was delayed to 2022 due to the Coronavirus.
Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
Black History River Cruise and bus tour
How Black People Won World War 2
Harlem in Mayfair
Black Theatreland Walk
Secrets of Soho
The Woman King's Real African Spirituality
African Women Resistance Leaders: Political and Spiritual, course
The Amazing James Baldwin course
About the author
Stephen Bourne is a writer, film and social historian specialising in black heritage and gay culture. As noted by the BBC among others, Stephen ‘has discovered many stories that have remained untold for years’. Bonnie Greer, the acclaimed playwright and critic, says: ‘Stephen brings great natural scholarship and passion to a largely hidden story. He is highly accessible, accurate and surprising. You always walk away from his work knowing something that you didn’t know, that you didn’t even expect.’
Stephen was born in London. He graduated from the London College of Printing with a bachelor’s degree in film and television in 1988, and in 2006 received a MPhil. at De Montfort University on the subject of the representation of gay men in British television drama, 1936–79. After graduating in 1988, he was a research officer at the British Film Institute on a project that documented the history of black people in British television. The result was a two-part television documentary called Black and White in Colour (BBC 1992), directed by Isaac Julien, that is considered ground-breaking.
In 2017 Stephen received a Screen Nation ('Black BAFTA') Special Award, an Honorary Fellowship from London South Bank University and his Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars was published by I B Tauris. Website [ Ссылка ]
