Fay Blake is a qualified secondary teacher of Media Studies and English, and has worked in the education sector for over 15 years including a local authority coordinating new projects for young people and producing print and digital publicity. Fay has experience of writing secondary teaching materials whilst working for an educational charity.
Kim Blake has a BA in African History and a MA Research in History. Her thesis was published ‘T.E.S. Scholes: the unknown Pan Africanist’ published in the Journal of Race and Class in July 07, and has self-published a historical fiction Dido Belle. Kim is currently working at Imperial College.
A black population existed in Britain long before the Windrush generation arrived in 1948. As early as the 16th century, there were evidences of black people in the royal courts of England and Scotland. Britain’s active involvement in the ‘Triangular’ slave trade saw a growth in the number of ...