Join author Dr Velma McClymont and Caribbean historian Cecil Gutzmore, as they discuss the importance of Black History Month; the Black presence in London pre-20th century; Windrush children (who joined their parents in the 1960s); and Dr McClymont’s latest novel Little River.
Dr Velma McClymont is a writer, poet, scholar-activist and the director/publisher of WomanzVue Books. She is a former lecturer in Caribbean Studies. Her novel, Little River, is a sweeping historical novel of a Scottish sugar baron and the Jamaica his life becomes enmeshed with.
Cecil Gutzmore is a member of the Windrush generation, Pan-Africanist, community activist, Marxist historian and former lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is also Resident Historian on WomanzVue where his focus is British colonialism, transatlantic slavery, and also the Black experience in Britain.
This event is brought to the community as part of the ongoing National Heritage Lottery funded project in West Norwood Cemetery. You can find out more on the project website: www.westnorwoodcemetery.org
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