{"title": "Pan-Africanism: a history", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A Black History Month talk titled Pan-Africanism: a history, hosted by the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The speaker is Hakim Adi, an award-winning academic and activist and the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain, chaired by Dr Alex Mayhew. He surveys the centuries-long struggles for the rights of Africa and its diaspora, tracing demands such as reparations back to at least the late 17th century. He also highlights the important role that people in Britain have played in this history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pan-africanism-a-history-37085/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-history/events/public-events/2026/pan-africanism-a-history", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c26053fe1eedce1c44e3e58ae33425cd819b8b969b821a2f29446ec51de0ef59-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "African Roots, Shared Rhythms: Exploring African Arts and Culture in…", "start": "2026-10-30T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "£15 (first 10 Goldsmiths students free)", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/african-roots-shared-rhythms-exploring-african-arts-and-culture-in-the-uk-tickets-2003545385181", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "music/percussion"], "description": "A Black History Month cultural exchange event celebrating African arts, music and heritage and their contributions to Britain's creative and cultural landscape. It is run by Tayese Academy of Arts & Culture London CIC and takes place at Goldsmiths, University of London. The 90-minute programme brings together a screening of the documentary 'ÀYÀN: The Drum That Speaks' on the Yoruba talking drum, a guest lecture by Professor Lucy Durán of SOAS titled 'The Musical Legacy of Pre-Colonial Mali: Impacts and Invisibilities', a cultural conversation and live Q&A with her and host Olanrewaju Sharafa, and an interactive talking drum workshop. 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Visitors are welcome to bring a vinyl record with a Brent connection to play and discuss, and families are invited. Kwaku, an independent history researcher, historical musicologist and Brent resident, is behind it. No booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marking-african-history-season-it-was-also-about-other-black-60109/", "official_url": "https://www.brent.gov.uk/events-in-brent/2026/october/marking-african-history-season-it-was-also-about-other-black-musics", "image": ""}, {"title": "Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Adult: £60 | Member: £55 | Early Career Researcher/Student: £30", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.rmg.co.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=RMGCON&c=MHCON", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/maritime"], "description": "A two-day interdisciplinary conference on marginalised maritime histories from around 1500 to the present. It is co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. The conference highlights new research on communities and individuals historically underrepresented in maritime narratives, from workers and families to navigators and knowledge-keepers. The fee covers lunches, refreshments and an evening book launch for Black and Asian Seafarers: A Visual History.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conference-maritime-histories-from-the-margins-people-places-39610/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/conference-maritime-histories-margins-people-places-practices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611a6bbca41bb79388ca8ea847147219d1cb99d7df33e9425818f356dd21db77-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998637389233", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain' exploring what people leave behind and carry with them when they move to Britain. Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. The event takes place at Brixton Tate Library and is free to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain-with-c-60892/", "official_url": "https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-migration-britain-with-colin-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f50cce3ac322c2eca82938db0a470ea07ed03c811cfbb47685448905a5da548a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. 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The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Conversation and performance: Voices of democracy", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "Westminster Abbey", "address": "Dean's Yard 20, SW1P 3PA London", "price": "Free (booking required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversation-and-performance-voices-of-democracy-tickets-1990646530359", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/classical/choral", "history/democracy"], "description": "An immersive evening of music, readings, and discussion about how individual voices have shaped the long story of democracy in the UK. It is hosted by Westminster Abbey Institute as part of its programme The Long Story of Democracy. Chaired by Josie Rourke, it features a panel including Professor Janina Ramirez, music from St Margaret's Choristers and Consort, and performances by Paul Chahidi and Miranda Raison. From Magna Carta to Nelson Mandela, it explores how those who tested the foundations of democracy inspire hope for its future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conversation-and-performance-voices-of-democracy-49729/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-events/lectures-and-talks/2026/november/conversation-and-performance-voices-of-democracy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53d94d67ae2efff392b59ae48b41d6facbba64eefcc87e098a46f1b7e7869e32-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Weight Of Standing", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Broadway Theatre", "address": "Catford Road, SE6 4RU London", "price": "£10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/events/a-place-at-my-table", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/black-culture"], "description": "The Weight Of Standing is a world premiere theatre performance celebrating the lives, resilience and enduring legacy of Black older people in Britain. Through intimate storytelling, movement and music, it explores forms of resistance, struggle and survival that have shaped generations, with stories of friendship, family and community at its heart. The work reflects on the strength carried within Black older bodies and the histories they hold, honouring voices that have too often gone unheard. Bold, moving and deeply human, it is a celebration of endurance, memory and collective care.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-weight-of-standing-69596/", "official_url": "https://www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/events/the-weight-of-standing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b28e7b626949218210950801f1b0893b66d480e9adfac6f5b48980033b1e2db4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "RAI Research Seminar: Aleksandar Bošković", "start": "2026-11-04T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A research seminar at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held as a hybrid event that can be attended in person in London or online via Zoom. Aleksandar Bošković of the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade (Serbia) gives a lecture titled 'Women in history of anthropology: Forgotten or marginalized?'. He examines how female scholars such as Winifred Hoernlé, Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Landes and Germaine Tillion were long omitted from narratives of anthropology's past, and how the discipline's history is shaped by political narratives, including examples like the renaming of Kroeber Hall at Berkeley.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rai-research-seminar-aleksandar-boskovic-64971/", "official_url": "https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-aleksandar-boskovic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1131521929b954268541377ba0d2333bc5cc09a82287ea87c38e75ef34699374-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cooking Classes as part of Black History Month Activities", "start": "2026-10-01T16:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "place": "Haileybury Youth Centre", "address": "Ben Jonson Road 2, E1 3FQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "occasion/black-history-month", "history"], "description": "Cooking Classes as part of Black History Month Activities are cooking sessions where participants create healthy African-American soul food, afro Caribbean flavours and West African dishes that celebrate heritage. They take place at Haileybury Youth Centre and are run in collaboration with Eat Club.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cooking-classes-as-part-of-black-history-month-activities-41462/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Talk and draw: Celebrating Black History Month", "start": "2026-10-30T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free (booking required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.nationalgallery.org.uk/13665/13666", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "society/identity"], "description": "An online talk and draw workshop marking Black History Month, hosted on Zoom. It is led by artist and Gallery Educator Joanna Conybeare together with Articulation alumnus Jacob Panchoo. Participants explore representations of Black and minority figures in the National Gallery's collection, reflecting on identity, visibility and lived experience, and respond creatively through relaxed drawing activities. No drawing experience is needed; the session lasts about an hour and is accompanied by live speech-to-text transcription.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/talk-and-draw-celebrating-black-history-month-49217/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/workshop-talk-and-draw-october-celebrating-black-history-month-30-10-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8161ecc473d4d5dfbf2907ca5a8ba57f8570484451a44a16df7bf7b029aadf1f-2000.webp"}]}