You can tell ‘Black History Month’ has come around again because there are all sorts of interesting events going on at the moment. It’s a shame some of this activity can’t be spread throughout the year as it is very difficult to get to all the events that interest us.
We are very much looking forward to hearing Ray Costello (author of ‘Black Tommies’) speak in Manchester on Tuesday 24th October as his book has very much been our ‘bible’ for the work we have been doing recently on Black soldiers in World War One.
But the highlight for us so far has been the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on Radio 3 throughout week commencing 17th October as he was featured as ‘composer of the week’. The programmes will be available on i-player for thirty days following broadcast, do catch them if you can.