Black History Canal cruise: Regent's Canal (September)

Relaxed sightseeing cruise on Regent's Canal with commentary and educational references on the centuries of African/Caribbean history
About this Event

There are centuries of Black history across Britain's canal networks. This guided cruise from in the Camden/Kings Cross area 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
• 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.

• Black history bus tour
• Black history steam train tour
• Graphic novels, publishing, Black history and movies
• Fighting the slavemaster: Resistance and Reparations Walk
• Harlem in Mayfair/Hackney/Trafalgar Square/Bloomsbury/ walks
• How to teach Black history at GCSE level, workshop
• How to fight racism @BFI British Film Institute
• The Gentrifiction of Peckham and Black urban removal worldwide,
• Frantz Fanon weekender
• White Supremacy in your toilet
• 60 years of Black British Civil Rights
• Ismahil Blagrove season of films and books
• How Black People Won World War 2
• 18,000 people and the fight for racial equality at the BFI, British Film Institute HERE