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Key information
Date: Tuesday 27 September 2022
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Venue: Online
We are very pleased to be able to host a conversation between Robin Walker 'The Black History Man' and author Tony Warner, founder of Black History Walks. Robin and Tony will discuss their publications that support the teaching and learning of Black history at secondary school and GCSE level and will discuss the broader context of black history in the curriculum.
Tony is an author of the ground-breaking ‘Pearson GCSE (9-1) Edexcel History Migrants in Britain Student Book’. This exam textbook, introduces Black British Civil Rights at GCSE level for the first time. The book is part based on his Notting Hill Black History Walk. It sold out its first print run and is increasingly being used in schools across the country.
Robin Walker's book 'Black History Matters' has been described as 'an important and hard-hitting chronicle of black history, written by a celebrated black historian.' The book received the 2020 School & Library Association prize for readers aged 13-16 and the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers' Award.
This talk will be a highly informative and useful talk that supports teachers and educators CPD. It will also be of great interest to academics in the field and for anyone interested in supporting greater inclusion of Black history in our schools.
This online event is part of the season London Unseen and is made possible by the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.
About the speakers:
Robin Walker
Robin Walker ‘The Black History Man’ was born in London but has also lived in Jamaica. He is an entrepreneur, publisher, educator, and author.
From 1987 to 1990, he read Economics at the London School of Economics. In 1991 and 1992, he studied African World Studies with the brilliant Dr Femi Biko and later with Mr Kenny Bakie. Between 1993 and 1994, he trained as a secondary school teacher at Edge Hill College (linked to the University of Lancaster).
In 2006 Walker wrote the seminal When We Ruled. It is the most advanced synthesis on Ancient and Mediaeval African history ever written by a single author. In 2011 Black Classic Press of Baltimore published a US version of this book.
Between 2013 and 2020, Walker followed this with When We Ruled: Second Edition, When We Ruled Study Guide and Reading Plan, Blacks and Science Volumes I, II and III, Blacks and Religion Volumes I and II, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street and the Seven Key Empowerment Lessons, The Black Musical Tradition and Early Black Literature, 19 Lessons in Black History and the ALCS award winning Black History Matters.
He also wrote four books in collaboration with others: Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire, African Mathematics: History, Study Guide and Classroom Lessons, Black British History: Black Influences on British Culture 1948-2016 and 30 Black History Icons.
In 2022 he co-founded the online adult education business, The Black Secret, which teaches Black History and African Heritage to adults.
Tony Warner
Tony Warner established Black History Walks in 2007. BHW explores the thousands of years of African/Caribbean history in London via 15 guided walks, bus tours, river cruises, talks, films and courses. Black History Walks has featured on BBC, ITV, Arise TV, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Time Out and Channel 4. Tony has written and presented documentaries for Teachers TV; Conde Nast Traveller listed BHW in their Best 15 walks in London in 2018; and in 2011 the Guardian put them in their Top Ten walks.
Tony is the co-founder and chair of the African Odysseys programme. This grassroots initiative has been screening African diaspora films plus Q&As, on a monthly basis at the British Film Institute’s Southbank cinema for 15 years. It is the only such programme in the country and has shown thousands of films to tens of thousands of people.
Tony has been exhibiting educational and empowering films about Black history in museums, art galleries, restaurants and youth clubs since 2000. He pioneered community partnerships with and lectured at the Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Museum of London/Docklands – which all led to huge increases in Black audiences.
In 2020 he was part of Jacaranda Books unprecedented initiative to publish 20 Black British authors in one year, Twenty in 2020. ‘Black History Walks in London Volume 1’ was delayed by the pandemic and comes out this October.
In 2021, he was selected as the first ever Activist in Residence at University College London’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. As such, he curated numerous events such as ‘Books, Violence and Resistance’, ‘Trailblazers of Black Theatre’, ‘The Superb Success of Saturday Schools’ and ‘African history at the Tower of London’ etc.
This talk is free to the public thanks to funding from the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm and to the support of Tony Warner, Black History Walks.