Historycal Roots

Historycal Roots https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Vincent Geoffrey Gomes Pereira of the British West Indies Regiment The Forgotten 4,000: West Indian Airmen at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey A Different Windrush Experience Alford Dalrymple Gardner: RAF recruit and Windrush Pioneer Discovering Black History in Wales – The Early Days Caribbean Women in the ATS from mid-1943 onwards A-Z Index Remembering some of those who died before the guns fell silent West Indian Women in the WAAF in World War 2 A date for your diary, 8th March book launch Horace William Halliburton: A hero of the Causeway Green ‘riots’ The British West Indies Regiment: Black Soldiers at Seaford and Beyond 20th January 1916 At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them Early Black Freemen and Voters – John Satia, John London and John Moore Home Fragments (18th/19th Century) Our Books New articles – Black History Month 2025 Trooper Michael Cipriani – a ‘Coloured’ Trinidadian in the Life Guards during the First World War Private C Calvert of the Middlesex Regiment in WW1 Ena Collymore-Woodstock: 10th September 1917 to 2nd December 2025 Three Black Soldiers in World War One Still Hidden? – Black and Asian History in the Yorkshire Dales News ‘The Best Black History Conference Ever’ Kettle Drummer George James of the ‘3rd (The King’s Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons’ in Dublin 1821 Prince Albert (Jake) Jacob – one hundred not out In Memory of Dr. Ray Costello (1945-2025) Ray Costello, historian, author and friend – 1945 to 14th June 2025 Putting names to the faces Hidden figures Still Hidden? Black and Asian History in the Yorkshire Dales On this day … 1916 From Nova-Scotia to Liverpool, via the battlefields of the Napoleonic War: The travels and travails of Drummer George Wise of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot Bertie Robinson – A Black Footman at Harewood House Drummer John Freeman, an Antiguan in The 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot, 1800 to 1818 Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army New contributions from Audrey Dewjee and John Ellis Who buys a calendar in April? Equiano – Journey’s End Lists and Black British History George ‘Bertie’ Robinson from St.Vincent to Harewood Sir Geoff Palmer 9th April 1940 to 12th June 2025 Forgotten Stories: “Women of Colour” in Newgate Gaol, 1817-1882 John Richards: 1926 to 2025 A Black Loyalist: Drummer Daniel Green of Charleston, South Carolina and the 38th (the 1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot from 1783 to 1801 Women of colour in the ATS and WAAF in the early years of World War 2 In Memory of John Desmond Crawford Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the Three Choirs Festival