EULAC_6578 London "" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. eulac3d Site TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "" "Natasha is an award-winning writer and actor born in London, of Jamaican descent. Her debut play, Nine Night, enjoyed a stunning sold-out run at the National in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios making her the first black British female playwright to be produced in the West End. In recognition of the play\u2019s overwhelming success Natasha won the Charles Wintour Award for most promising playwright at the 2018 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.\r\nAs a performer, her stage credits include; Nine Night at Trafalgar Studios, Red Velvet at the Tricycle Theatre, The Low Road and Clubland at the Royal Court Theatre, Mules at the Young Vic and As You Like It at the RSC. Film and TV includes; Dough, Line Of Duty, Class, and Danny And The Human Zoo." Person "Angie Greaves, \u2018Daytime\u2019 and \u2018Soul Town\u2019 presenter on Magic Radio, has one of the most soulful and distinctive female voices in UK radio today. Born in London and enjoying being \u2018fabulous in her 50\u2019s\u2019, Angie grew up within a traditional Afro-Caribbean family setting. Even from a young age, she loved her soulful roots and she knew she had a \u2018voice\u2019 in the world \u2013 one that needed to be shared \u2013 and one that she continues to share today.\r\nAngie\u2019s media career started off in 1982 at BBC Television Centre and by 1986 she had moved to London\u2019s Capital Radio where she was discovered by DJ: David \u2018Kid\u2019 Jensen. In 1990, Angie was announced as the first DJ at the launch of Spectrum Radio before joining Choice FM in 1992 for five soulful years, trebling listener figures on her Angie Greaves Breakfast Show. After this time, Angie joined the BBC, where she presented shows on BBC London, BBC Three, Counties Radio and the Drive Time show on BBC 2002 in Manchester. The latter was an RSL station launched to air coverage on Wimbledon, The World Cup and The Commonwealth Games.\r\nWhilst bringing up a young family, Angie freelanced across Jazz\/Smooth FM, Radio Jackie and LBC 97.3FM until 2006. She started working with Magic in late 2006 and was the first woman to join the Magic presenter line-up. In addition to her extensive and prolific radio career, Angie has created her own Angie Greaves multi-platform brand, including a well-established book club.\r\nVoiceover work includes the MOBO awards, numerous terrestrial and satellite television documentaries and television commercials. As a special soothing treat, if you travel long-haul on a British Airways flight, you can listen to Angie\u2019s two-hour \u2018Soul Selection\u2019 on British Airways Radio. Angie has interviewed some of the world\u2019s best- known musical artists and is proud to call some of them personal friends. Her recent event, called \u2018The Essence of Crop Over\u2019, an official visit to Crop Over in Barbados with The BTMI, has further extended Angie\u2019s reach and appeal into the international travel sector.\r\nIn August in 2016, Angie was proud to have been asked to stand in for Clare Balding on BBC Radio 2\u2019s\u2018Good Morning Sunday\u2019 during The Olympic Games Rio 2016.\r\nAngie is passionate about being recognised not only for her voice but also as a lauded British female spokesperson. She fully encompasses the archetypal, positive role model for 50+ women throughout the UK and farther afield. Angie supports other people\u2019s dreams and aspirations and is the very proud mother of two teenage daughters. She is truly a woman with a big heart who continues to forge ahead in her very own \u2018soul town\u2019." Person "Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, Jamaica. He moved to London in 1963 to be with his mother and went on to read Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He joined the Black Panther movement in 1970, organising a poetry workshop and working with Rasta Love, a group of poets and percussionists. He joined the Brixton-based Race Today Collective in 1974. His first book of poems, Voices of the Living and the Dead, was published by the Race Today imprint in 1974. His second book, Dread, Beat An' Blood (1975) includes poems written in Jamaican dialect, and was released as a record in 1978.\r\nHe is widely regarded as the father of 'dub poetry', a term he coined to describe the way a number of reggae DJs blended music and verse. Johnson maintains that his starting point and focus is poetry, composed before the music, and for this reason he considers the term 'dub poetry' misleading when applied to his own work. He recorded several albums on the Island label, including Forces of Victory (1979), Bass Culture (1980), LKJ In dub (1980) and Making History (1984) and founded his own record label - LKJ - in the mid-1980s, selling over two million records worldwide.\r\nIn 1977 he was awarded a C. Day Lewis Fellowship and became Writer in Residence for the London Borough of Lambeth. Race Today published his third book of poetry, Inglan Is a Bitch, in 1980. He worked primarily as a journalist in the 1980s and was a reporter for Channel 4 television's The Bandung File. Tings An' Times: Selected Poems was published in 1991 as both a book and musical recording.\r\nHe was made Associate Fellow at Warwick University in 1985 and Honorary Fellow at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1987. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and hosted an evening of Caribbean music and culture for BBC Radio 2 in October 2001." Person "Andrea Levy was born in London, England in 1956 to Jamaican parents. She is the author of\u00a0five novels, each of which explore - from different perspectives - the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical\u00a0Every Light in the House Burnin'\u00a0(1994), is the story of a Jamaican family living in London in the 1960s. Her second,\u00a0Never Far from Nowhere\u00a0(1996), is set during the 1970s and tells the story of two very different sisters living on a London council estate. In\u00a0Fruit of the Lemon\u00a0(1999), Faith Jackson, a young black Londoner, visits Jamaica after suffering a nervous breakdown and discovers a previously unknown personal history.\u00a0Small Island\u00a0(2004), set in 1948, explores the interaction between a black couple, Gilbert, a former RAF recruit, who has returned to Britain on the SS Windrush, and his Jamaican wife Hortense, and a white couple: Queenie,\u00a0their landlady, and her recently demobbed husband, Bernard. It won the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize.\u00a0Small Island\u00a0was adapted for BBC television and broadcast in 2009.\r\nBorn in London in 1956, Levy drew on the postwar period more broadly within her fictional work. Andrea Levy's parents travelled from Jamaica to England on the now famous SS Empire Windrush in 1948. It is a journey Levy fictionalises in her first novel, Every light in the House Burnin'. Described by the Times Literary Supplement as 'An extremely powerful novel, a striking and promising debut', the book opens, not with the expected transatlantic journey from the West Indies, but with a family trip from London to Pontin's Holiday Camp. While the scene may be anecdotal in terms of the novel as a whole, it is by 'provincialising' the trope of travel, that Levy begins to draw attention to some of the discrepancies and differences (in term\r\nQuestions of English-ness and of Diaspora are also central to Levy\u2019s novel,\u00a0Small Island. The book moves between England and Jamaica before and after World War II, and is narrated by four characters: the Jamaican Gilbert, his new wife Hortense, their English landlady, Queenie, and her husband, Bernard. As this structure suggests,\u00a0Small Island\u00a0operates through the establishment of a series of parallels: between London and Kingston, between husbands and wives, between past and present. This symmetrical structure, in which \u2018small island\u2019 refers to both Britain and Jamaica, allows Levy to both announce and undermine a series of differences between English-ness and West Indian-ness. It is in this way that\u00a0Small Island\u00a0reveals both the tragedy of mutual ignorance and the possibilities of cross-cultural intimacy, overlap, and interaction. Critics have praised the novel\u2019s refusal of easy racial binaries and its nuanced characterization in this respect. For example, Hortense\u2019s confident sense of superiority undermines a simple sense of the black British immigrant as passive victim, and implies that snobbery and prejudice were also aspects of West Indian characters (of class, gender and generation) that cut across the received histories of Black Britain." Person "Born in Trinidad in 1939, Trevor worked in various aspects of the media including local newspapers, radio and television. He joined the Caribbean Regional Service of the BBC World Service in 1960 as a producer, before moving to London at the end of that decade to work for the corporation (BBC Radio, London).\r\nMoving to Independent Television News (ITN) in 1973, he rose steadily through the ranks. He's served as news, sports and diplomatic correspondent before moving on to become diplomatic editor and newscaster. Twice voted Newscaster of the year, McDonald is perceived as the face of ITN after years of fronting its flagship 'News at Ten' bulletin.\r\nAn accomplished journalist, he has penned several books including autobiographies on cricketers Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards. His own biography, 'Fortunate Circumstances', was published in 1993." Person "Dalton McConney is a retired Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector. He mostly served as a uniformed officer in South London and came to prominence following the second Brixton riots In the mid-eighties. He was born in Barbados and educated at Ebenezer Boys and the Modern High School. He worked as a proof reader at the Barbados Advocate newspaper and at the Government Printing Office before joining the economic migration to the UK in I960.\r\nAged 36, he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976. He served as a Constable at Battersea, Sergeant at Belgravia and a Recruit Instructor at Hendon Police College. He obtained the Certificate of Education (University of London), helped to research the new Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984, updated the Training Manual and taught the changes in the Act to instructors. He passed the Inspector\u2019s examination in 1988 and was posted to Brixton after the second riots.\r\nHe was the first senior black officer to serve at Brixton Police Station in the Borough of Lambeth. gaining the trust of residents and helping to lower tensions. He also set up the \u201cBrixton Summer Project\u201d during the school holidays, engaging local unemployed youth as staff. A two-part C4 documentary, \u201cThe Brixton Beat\u201d, highlighted Dalton\u2019s role in the changes at Brixton. He received a Lambeth Civic Award, the Mayor\u2019s Special Award and in 1994 was awarded the MBE for Police\/Community Service.\r\nHe was promoted to Chief Inspector in 1994, becoming Staff Officer to the Assistant Commissioner. As Personnel Manager at Walworth Police Station, he set up the first Criminal Justice Unit and formulated a strategy to deal with street robbery (Operation Eagle Eye)i. He received two Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendations for this work.\r\nAfter serving in Bromley, he returned to Lambeth where he devised the Policing Diversity Strategy and Community\/ Race Relations programme. He was awarded the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, featured in books highlighting black achievements for the Millennium and was one of the subjects of the \u201cBlack Power\u201d photographic exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. On retirement, he was awarded the Queen\u2019s Police Medal for Distinguished Police Service and later received an Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendation for work on Critical Incident Management. Dalton also supports various Barbadian Organisations in London and continues to use the high profile of his career to promote Barbados." Person "Althea McNish FCSD (born c. 1933) is a British textile designer of Trinidadian origin who has been called the first British designer of African descent to earn an international reputation.\r\nAlthea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, around 1933. Her father, the writer Joseph Claude McNish, was descended from the Merikin settlers in Trinidad. She painted as a child, was a junior member of the Trinidad Arts Society and had her first exhibition at the age of 16. Her influences included local artists Sybil Atteck, Amy Leong Pang and Boscoe Holder, and European modernists such as Vincent Van Gogh.\r\nIn the early 1950s McNish moved with her mother to London, England, to join her father there. She already had a place to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square but instead took courses at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art. \r\nIn her final year at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, she became interested in textiles with the encouragement of Eduardo Paolozzi, and chose printed textiles as her subject of study on progressing to the Royal College of Art, where her talent was recognised by Hugh Casson. On graduating, she immediately won a commission from Arthur Stewart-Liberty, head of the Liberty Department Store, sending her the same day to Zika Ascher, who commissioned her to design a collection for Dior. Successfully designing for such prestigious clients, McNish was the first Caribbean woman to achieve prominence in this field.\r\nShe was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s, participating in CAM's exhibitions and seminars and helping to promote Caribbean arts to a British public. She took part in the art exhibitions of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) held in 1967, May 1968 and January 1971, exhibiting textiles as well as "plastic panels in laminate". For the Caribbean edition of the BBC TV magazine programme Full House, produced by John La Rose and transmitted on 3 February 1973, she brought together the work of CAM visual artists as a studio setting for CAM writers, musicians and film-makers. \r\nHer work is represented in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt (Smithsonian Design Museum), among other places." Person "Sir (Oshely) Roy Marshall was born on October 21, 1920. He was one of 6 children who lost their father when Roy was 10 years old. His mother Korine worked tirelessly to support and allow the family to thrive.\r\nHe was educated at Harrison College, where he won the Barbados Scholarship in 1938. His further education was delayed through illness and World War II and it was not until 1942 that he entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours in 1945. He took a master\u2019s in 1948 and was awarded a doctorate from University College, London in the same year. He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1947. \r\nFrom 1946 until 1969, Sir Roy taught law full-time: from 1946 until 1956 as assistant lecturer and then lecturer at University College, London; from 1956 until 1963, and 1965 until 1969 as professor of law at the University of Sheffield; and from 1963 until 1965 as professor of law at the University of Ife in Nigeria,\r\nHe was a constitutional advisor to the Government of Barbados at the Independence Talks with the United Kingdom in 1966 and one of the Law Revision commissioners responsible for the edition of laws published in 1974. In 1979, he drafted a comprehensive package of statutes on property and related matters for the island.\r\nIn 1969,he began a new career in university administration, becoming vice-chancellor of the UWI and served until 1977. He was also secretary general of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom Universities from 1974 to 1979 and Vice\u00ad Chancellor of the University of Hull from 1979 to 1985.After retirement, he entered yet another field, serving as High Commissioner for Barbados in London from 1989 to 1991. He served as Chair of the Commission for Law and Order appointed by the Government. At Cave Hill, the campus\u2019 principal teaching facility is named the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex in his honour." Person "Former broadcaster and chair of the Greater London Assembly, Trevor Phillips was born in London in 1953. His parents, wanting him to have the best education, enrolled him at the Queen's College Boys School in Guyana, resulting in him spending the ages between 2 and 17 in either Guyana or London.\r\nDespite offers of a scholarship to MIT, he picked Imperial College, London to study chemistry. In 1978, he became the first black president of the National Union of Students. After university, he applied for a job as a researcher in Current Affairs at London Weekend Television. He then presented and produced 'The London Programme' for thirteen years, and later became head of Current Affairs at LWT, one of a small number of black senior executives of major British broadcasting organisations.\r\nIn 1998, his independent production company, Pepper Productions produced the Windrush series, chronicling the history of black people in Britain over the last 50 years. \r\nHe has been chairman of the Runnymede Trust, an independent race relations think-tank and campaigning body, and in 2000, he ran for the position of Mayor of London. He didn't win, but became a member of the GLA, and in 2003, was appointed by the Home Secretary to be the chairman of the CRE. He has been awarded an OBE." Person "Medic, political pioneer and labour peer for Hamstead, the late Lord David Pitt of Hampstead was the longest serving black Parliamentarian, having been granted a life peerage in 1975. He spent his life speaking out for the underrepresented black community in Great Britain.\r\nBorn on the island of Grenada in the West Indies, David Pitt attended Grenada Boys' Secondary school and was raised a devout Roman Catholic and was the second peer of African descent, to sit in the House of Lords.\u00a0 Pitt won a scholarship to come to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a returned to the Caribbean to begin his medical career, founding his own practice, and in 1943 married (Lady) Dorothy (n\u00e9e\u00a0Alleyne).He eventually settled in Trinidad where is passion for social justice continued alongside his medical career.\r\nIn 1943 Pitt helped found the West Indian National Party and served as its president until 1947. This party was considered radical in its day because it advocated independence for Trinidad within a West Indian federation. He won election to the borough council in San Fernando, Trinidad, where he also served as deputy mayor. In order to lobby the British government for independence, he travelled to Great Britain in 1947. His efforts were unsuccessful, and he grew disillusioned with West Indian politics. He decided to settle in the London district of Euston, where he established a medical practice that he ran for more than 30 years\r\nIn the 1950s, Pitt was one of the few blacks active in defending the growing black population of Great Britain against discrimination and prejudice. In the 1960s and 1970s, he organized to help immigrants and improve race relations. Pitt became the first and only chair of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD), an association founded with the encouragement of Martin Luther King Jr. Pitt believed in fighting racism within the existing power structure. In 1959 Pitt sought to represent London's wealthy Hampstead district in Parliament, becoming the first West Indian black to seek a seat in Parliament. After a campaign plagued by racist insinuations, Pitt lost the election.\r\nIn 1961, however, Pitt won the election representing the ethnically mixed, working-class Hackney district in London's city government, the London County Council (LCC). In 1964 this body was absorbed by the Greater London Council (GLC). He served as deputy chair of the GLC from 1969 to 1970 and in 1974 became the first black chair, a post he held until 1975. Pitt paved the way for the multiracial politics for which the GLC became known.\r\nIn 1975 Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed Pitt to the House of Lords as Lord Pitt of Hampstead. According to Pitt himself, however, his most valued honour was his election as president of the British Medical Association from 1985 to 1986, a position few general practitioners achieve.\u00a0" Person "Lord Kitchener, (Aldwyn Roberts), Trinidadian singer and songwriter (born April 18, 1922, Arima, Trinidad, British West Indies \u2014 died Feb. 11, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), was called the \u201cgrandmaster of calypso\u201d and was instrumental in popularizing that music internationally. He was especially admired for his melodious style and his witty, often bawdy, lyrics. \r\nIn 1947, Kitch was proclaimed the best calypsonian of the year. His big tunes for that year were "Scandal in St. Ann's," "Mount Olga," and "Tie Tongue Mopsy." Soon after the success of 1947, Kitch left T&T; for Aruba, then on to Jamaica, where he lived for six months, teaching calypso and playing to packed audiences. After Jamaica, the next stop was London.\u00a0 Kitch arrived on a boat, the M.V. Windrush, at the port city of Tilbury on June 21, 1948. One of the other passengers on that M.V. Windrush was Egbert Moore (Lord Beginner). Kitch got an immediate booking at the only West Indian club in London, following his debut on the BBC. Six months later, Kitch was appearing in three clubs nightly, and his popularity extended beyond the West Indian and African night club audiences, to include music hall and variety show audiences.\r\nThe days in London were very good days for Kitch. He had everything he wanted. Lots of money, fan mail from all over the world, clothes, fancy hats and shoes, and lots of lady friends. But the night life was getting the better of Kitch. Therefore, he decided to slow down, leave London, and move to Manchester in the north of England. There, he met, and in 1953, married his English wife, Marjorie. \r\nKitch also started writing calypsoes again in 1953, and in that year he wrote "Africa My Home," "Beware Tokyo," and "If You Not White, You Considered Black." Soon, Kitch opened his own club in Manchester, and also received a six month contract to tour the U.S. where he appeared in New York, Washington D.C., and other cities on the East Coast. \r\nKitch later returned to England, and in 1958 he made his first of several recordings for the Melodisc record label. The days in Manchester were even more successful for Kitch than his days in London. He became the proprietor of a two-apartment buildings, expanded his club, and formed a dance band. \r\nDuring the 17 years Kitch was away from T&T;, he sent back great calypso tunes which became very popular. Tunes like "Mama Look The Band Passing," "Nora, Nora, Nora," "Trouble In Arima," belong to this period.\r\nAfter living in London from 1948 to 1962, Lord Kitchener returned to newly independent Trinidad and Tobago, where he won the coveted title Road March King at Port of Spain\u2019s carnival 10 times before he ceased to compete in 1976. In the 1990s his image appeared on a stamp, and a statue was erected in his honour in Port of Spain." Person "Samuel Selvon, in full Samuel Dickson Selvon, (born May 20, 1923, Trinidad \u2014 died April 16, 1994, Port of Spain), Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation of the life of East Indians living in the West Indies and elsewhere. He came to public attention during the 1950s with a number of other Caribbean writers, including V.S. Naipaul.\r\nSelvon worked as a wireless operator for a local branch of the Royal Navy during World War II on ships that patrolled the Caribbean; during a slack period he began to write poetry. In 1946 he went to work at the Trinidad Guardian. In 1950 he went to London, where he worked as a clerk for the Indian Embassy and wrote in his spare time.\r\nHis first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952), describes East Indians and Creoles in Trinidad, their prejudices and mutual distrusts, and the effect of this animosity on a young man. It was the first time that an East Indian author had written with such quiet authority and simple charm about the life of these people. Its sequel, Turn Again Tiger (1958), follows the protagonist on a journey to his homeland. In this novel, which is perhaps his best, Selvon made extensive and striking use of dialect. \r\nThe Lonely Londoners (1956) describes apparently naive immigrants living by their wits in a hostile city. His later works include a collection of short stories, Ways of Sunlight (1958), and the novels I Hear Thunder (1962), The Housing Lark (1965), Moses Ascending (1975), and Moses Migrating (1983), both sequels to The Lonely Londoners. Highway in the Sun (1991) is a collection of plays." Person "Zadie Smith, originally Sadie Smith, (born October 27, 1975, London, England), is a British author known for her treatment of race, religion, and cultural identity and for her novels\u2019 eccentric characters, savvy humour, and snappy dialogue. She became a sensation in the literary world with the publication of her first novel, White Teeth, in 2000.\r\nSmith, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father, changed the spelling of her first name to Zadie at age 14. She began writing poems and stories as a child and later studied English literature at the University of Cambridge (B.A., 1998). While there, she began writing White Teeth, and at age 21 she submitted some 80 pages to an agent. A frenzied bidding war ensued, and the book was eventually sold to Hamish Hamilton. Smith took several more years to complete the novel, and in 2000 it was published to rave reviews. \r\nSet in the working-class suburb of Willesden in northwest London, White Teeth chronicled the lives of best friends Archie Jones, a down-on-his-luck Englishman whose failed suicide attempt opens the novel, and Samad Iqbal, a Bengali Muslim who struggles to fit into British society. Spanning some 50 years, the novel also detailed the trials and tribulations of their families, which prompted some critics to hail Smith as a modern-day Charles Dickens. The ambitious work won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award (2000), and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction." Person "Born in Barbados on 30 October in 1934,Sam came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and started his working life with London Transport as a conductor and later a driver of trolley and diesel buses. He worked with London Transport until 1986,when he was retired on medical grounds.\r\nHis political and trade union activity started in 1958. He played a very active role in the 1958 bus strike and served on the Transport and General Workers Union until his retirement. He campaigned for changes to the 1968 Race Relations Act and stood on the Home Secretary\u2019s Standing Advisory Council on Race Relations for seven years. In 1982 he became the first Black Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, having served as a Council Member of Council from 1968 to 1986, and Member of the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority.\r\nHe served as a Member of Industrial Tribunals from 1976 until 1996, and on the Employment Appeals Tribunal from 1984, only retiring on 31 March 2005 at the age of seventy years. From 1967 he served as a Member and\/or Chairman of a number of Statutory and Voluntary Bodies, Schools, Colleges, Polytechnics, and the Guildhall University, as well as commercial undertakings. He was a member of the London Employment Conciliation Committee of the Race Relations Board.\r\nHe spearheaded the Twinning of Barbados with Hackney in 1982 and is a Founder Director Trustee of the Barbados UK Education Bursary Trust. In 2004 he was elected as Chairman of the Democratic Labour Party (UK), an Associate Branch of the Barbados Democratic Labour Party. He is a Trustee of the Hackney\/Barbados Education Bursary Trust, Caribbean Families and Friends in Crisis, and was Chairman of the Errol Barrow Memorial Statue Fund.\r\nIn 1976 he was awarded the MBE for services to Race and Community Relations and in 1984 admitted to the Freedom of the City of London. Appointed a Deputy of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, he served until 2010. He was the first recipient of the Caribbean Times Award and has played a significant role in the development of Carnival Arts and Steel Orchestra" Person "Born in Belize, Errollyn Wallen gave up her training at the Dance Theater of Harlem, New York to study composition at the universities of London and Cambridge. She founded her own Ensemble X, and its motto \u2019We don\u2019t break down barriers in music\u2026 we don\u2019t see any\u2019 reflects her genuine, free-spirited approach and eclectic musicianship. She has been commissioned by outstanding music institutions from the BBC to the Royal Opera House and performed her songs internationally.\r\nErrollyn Wallen\u2019s song Daedalus appears alongside songs by Bj\u00f6rk, Sting, Elvis Costello and Meredith Monk on the Brodsky Quartet\u2019s CD Moodswings. The two solo albums Meet Me at Harold Moores and most recently Errollyn feature her songs in her own voice\/piano performance and in collaboration with outstanding jazz artists. Her multi-media show Jordan Town, a modern day song cycle with dance and film, was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Festival. The Errollyn Wallen Songbook, published by Edition Peters, comprises twelve of her celebrated songs for voice with piano accompaniment.\r\nErrollyn Wallen\u2019s quality as a writer for the human voice becomes also apparent in her more classical vocal works: Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals is a song cycle for soprano and string quartet commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and recorded on her classical solo album The Girl in My Alphabet which received rave reviews at its release; Fairy Scary comprises song settings of fairy stories for voice and small instrumental ensemble and was commissioned by the Wigmore Hall; the Dunedin Consort commissioned and world-premi\u00e8red Comfort Me with Apples for soloists and instrumental ensemble with words from The Song of Songs in September 2006." Person "The London Borough of Ealing and the black education movement in London bear the imprint of Willis Darnley Wilkie\u2019s tireless struggle for children\u2019s education rights and social justice.\r\nBorn on the 3rd of October 1926, Willis was one of that early group of post-War migrants recruited from Barbados to come and work on London Transport. Arriving in 1955,he was to spend the following fifty-eight years of his life in public service; initially as a transport worker, then local government officer, social worker, teacher, community organiser, political activist and independent consultant. Like so many others of his generation, his life was spent within the crucible of British racism, an experience that defined the trajectory of his life and his achievements against all the odds.\r\nWillis became a social worker with Kensington & Chelsea and then in Ealing, and was highly respected among his colleagues and the entire community. Despite the demands of the job, he made time, with his late wife Edna Wilkie, to act as a one-man citizens advice bureau, law centre, housing and welfare rights service and education advocacy service. He firmly believed in collective action in pursuit of change in society and so pooled his skills and expertise with others. In 1975 he and others founded the Caribbean Parents Group which became a powerful voice and advocate for parents and students. That led in 1980 to the establishment of a Supplementary school. Willis and Edna played a major part in its creation and running over many years. He went on to run small support groups for young people, encouraging them to get training and pursue their careers. He was not only concerned with the social and educational wellbeing of the community, but also its economic disadvantage. Thus, he led the CPG in setting up a credit union in 1990 which operated successfully until 2012.\r\nWiIlis was twice nominated for a gong from the Queen and each time he refused, in part because he always felt his achievements were the result of collective effort. He did however, cherish the recognition of his local community. In March 2004 he was given the top prize in Ealing\u2019s inaugural Pride in Our People Award: \u2018for the massive difference he made in the lives of those around him\u2019. Other awards, including awards in his name, and recognition have followed." Person "For over 30 years, the name Stephen Wiltshire has been synonymous with finely-detailed, vigorous pen and ink drawings of the world\u2019s great cities. These drawings \u2013 often drawn from memory and at a great speed -are sketched on the spot at street level ,drawn from the top of skyscrapers or sometimes made after whistle-stop helicopter rides over the city.\r\nStephen regularly travels all over the world on private and public commissions, the most famous of which are his ten city panoramas drawn from memory. His talent is even more incredible considering that he was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old. Born in London in 1974, Stephen was mute as a small child, and found it hard to relate to other people.\r\nAt the age of five, he was sent to Queensmill School, London, where it soon became apparent that he communicated through the language of drawing. His teachers encouraged him to speak by temporarily taking away his art materials; eventually he uttered his first words \u2013 \u201cpaper\u201d and \u201cpencil\u201d Oust like Picasso) \u2013 but didn\u2019t learn to speak fully until the age of nine. As soon as Stephen\u2019s school started to enter his art into competitions, news of his talent began to spread. Early fans included the late Prime Minister Edward Heath, who bought his drawing of Salisbury Cathedral, made when Stephen was eight. Stephen came to wider public attention when the BBC featured him in the programme, \u2018The Foolish Wise Ones\u2019 in 1987, when he was introduced by Sir Hugh as \u201cthe best child artist in Britain\u201d.\r\nIn 2005, he was commissioned to undertake vast panoramic drawings of ten world cities and in 2006 Stephen was recognised for his services to the art world, when he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. That year Stephen and his family opened a permanent art gallery in London\u2019s historic Royal Opera Arcade. " Person "Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England\r\nBorn in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred] attended Southborough Boys\u2019 Primary School and Combermere School.\r\nHaving being ordained Deacon on the island after completion of studies in 1962, Bishop Wood\u2019s journey had just begun as he was sent to the Diocese of London, first serving in a parish called St. Stephen\u2019s Shepherd\u2019s Bush, where he served as a curate, then honorary curate, of St Thomas with St Stephen, Shepherd\u2019s Bush, until 1974.\r\nHe soon came to wider attention in Britain for speaking out on racial injustice. In 1974 he joined the Diocese of Southwark, where he stayed until his retirement.\r\nIn 1977 he was appointed Rural Dean of East Lewisham and Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Southwark from 1982 until his consecration as Bishop of Croydon in 1985, where he oversaw the Croydon Episcopal Area and assisted the Bishop of Southwark.\r\nThroughout his Ministry, Bishop Wood had a strong interest in race relations and social justice in London, as it was for this interest that he was appointed the Bishop of London Officer in race relations, also serving on a number of other important boards, from 1978 to 1981." Person "Asquith Camile Xavier was a West Indian-born Briton who ended a colour bar at British Railways in London by fighting to become the first non-white train guard at Euston railway station in 1966. \r\nTrevor Phillips, when chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said in 2006: "Asquith's stand against discrimination brought to light the inadequacy of early race discrimination laws and persistent widespread discrimination faced by ethnic minorities." A plaque at the station commemorates his achievement.\r\nXavier was born on 18 July 1920 in Dominica, which was then a British colony. He was a member of the Windrush generation of British African-Caribbean people who migrated to the United Kingdom after the second world war to fill vacancies in service industries.\r\nXavier joined British Railways. In 1966 he was working as a guard at Marylebone station in central London. He applied for a promotion and transfer to work at Euston, but was rejected. A letter from a staff committee at Euston\u2014which was dominated by members of the National Union of Railwaymen\u2014explained it was because of his colour. Unions and management had informally agreed in the 1950s to ban non-white people from jobs at Euston that involved contact with the public; they could be cleaners and labourers, but not guards or ticket collectors." Person "Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 \u2013 25 March 1918) was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. He played as an inside forward and half back for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town and was the third person of mixed heritage to play in the top division of the Football League after Arthur Wharton and Willie Clarke. He was also the first black player to be signed for Rangers F.C. in 1917 while stationed in Scotland.\r\n\r\nDuring the First World War, Tull served in the Middlesex Regiment, including in the two Footballers' Battalions. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 30 May 1917 and killed in action on 25 March 1918." Person 51.50532341149335 -0.12153625488281251