People, Places, Events   

Passenger Lists The National Archives holds the UK’s surviving inward and outward passenger lists from the late 19th century

Robert Wedderburn (1762 – 1835/1836?) was a Jamaican-born political and religious radical

William Davidson,  born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1781, shared a common background with Robert Wedderburn as the illegitimate sons of wealthy

The Graves of the British West Indies Regiment in Sussex 1916

Amy Barbour-James (25 January 1906 – 4 May 1988) was a British-born Guyanese Black civil rights activist and civil servant.

The League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) was a British civil-rights organisation that was founded in 1931 in London by Jamaican-born physician

Ella Williams, (born 1865) also known by her stage name 'Mme Abomah', was an American performer.

A statue commemorating Henrietta Lacks, a black woman, known as the 'mother' of modern medicine

In an era where opportunities were scarce, especially for individuals of West African descent, Cole's achievements stand as a testament to