Pre-sessional Lecture 4th June 2019

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era.

Documentary about the abolition of slavery. Huge sums of money were paid out in compensation, not to slaves, but to slave owners.

Documentary. David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.

First transmitted in 1961, Martin Luther King talks to John Freeman about his childhood experiences and the incidents that led to the Montgomery bus boycott. These events shaped King's life and led to him becoming a national figurehead and civil rights leader.

David Olusoga meets nurses, doctors and health workers from overseas who have transformed the NHS in spite of hostility and discrimination.

Inspiring film from Grammy-nominated Nicolas Jack Davies, exploring the origins and impact of the iconic Trojan Records, and the influence of Jamaican music on modern Britain.

The story of the New Cross house fire of 1981, in which 13 young black British people died, and how its aftermath ignited an uprising by the black British community.

How tensions between the black community and the police boiled over into some of the biggest riots in British history, from Brixton to Toxteth, while the cause of the New Cross fire remained unknown.