Black History Canal cruise: Regent's Canal

There are centuries of Black history across Britain's canal networks. This guided cruise from Little Venice to Kings Cross and back will expose and explore some of that history. Your exclusive, comfortable, canal boat will float gently along the quiet backwaters of this busy city while we discuss:

• Black scientists and inventors
• Ancient African engineering
• The real Bridgerton, rich Black British people of the 1800s
• The Trinidad connection, canals and capitalism
• African Americans and Civil Wars
• Luxuries and classic British culture
• Racist statues and those who defend them, the BLM connections
• Caribbbean labour and the British Industrial Revolution
• World War 2 and UK Nazis
• Armed Black resistance against white supremacy
• British sewage in the West Indies
• Your underwear.

Plus. Bring your own sandwiches and have a nibble while we float. After the commentary, we will enjoy some 70s/80s/90s classic Soul/R&B while sipping Jamaican ginger beer and sharing our specially curated historical book list.

Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

• How Black People Won World War 2, talk
• James Baldwin blue plaque unveiling
• The Little Mermaid's real Black history and the books to prove it, talk
• Fighting the slavemaster: Past and Present Black History Walk
• Harlem in Mayfair Black history walk
• How to teach Black history at GCSE level, workshop
• Theatreland Black history walk
• Hackney/Secrets of Soho/Trafalgar Square Black History Walks
• The Gentrifiction of Peckham and Black urban removal worldwide, talk
• Under-writing Black history: Lloyds, Human Trafficking and Uprisings
• Jacaranda Books and Black Female publishers
• Black History Walks Volume 1 book signing
• Black History River Cruise/Bus tour

Host or Publisher Black History Walks