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You are here: Home>Herts history>Topics>Black History Month

Black History Month

October each year is Black History Month, for people to learn about and celebrate their African or Caribbean roots. From anti-slavery campaigners to post-war immigration, Hertfordshire has plenty to celebrate.

  • African and Caribbean Family History
    African and Caribbean Family History
    Check out our new family history guides
  • Articles relating to the abolition of the slave trade
    Articles relating to the abolition of the slave trade
    The fight to end slavery
  • Black Abolitionists
    Black Abolitionists
    Some of the leaders of the abolition campaign in the US
  • Hertfordshire and the Slave Trade
    Hertfordshire and the Slave Trade
    Hertfordshire' people involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Hertfordshire's Hidden Histories
    Hertfordshire's Hidden Histories
    A project for the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
  • Interview with Gary Younge
    Interview with Gary Younge
    An exclusive for Black History Month in Hertfordshire
  • Interview with Lionel Wallace
    Interview with Lionel Wallace
    Exclusive interview with the Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
  • Share your story
    Share your story
    Help us gather and share a more diverse history of the county
  • The Abolition of Slavery
    The Abolition of Slavery
    The steps taken to end slavery
  • Windrush and Beyond: An Exhibition

    Windrush and Beyond: An Exhibition (7)

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  • A County Remembers
  • Archaeology
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  • Archives
  • Art and Artists
  • Black History Month
  • Childhood
  • Conservation
  • Crime
  • Cultural Connections Exhibition
  • Disability History Month
  • Education
  • Emmigration
  • Events and ceremonies
  • Films and Film Makers
  • Folk Remedies
  • Hertfordshire and the Slave Trade
  • Hertfordshire Fire Services
  • Hertfordshire Folk Songs
  • Herts Past
  • Herts Year of Culture 2020
  • Holidays
  • Homelessness
  • Life under Lockdown
  • Literary Hertfordshire
  • Local History Resources
  • Magna Carta
  • Natural World
  • Olympics and Paralympics
  • Politics
  • Privateering
  • Quakers in Hertfordshire
  • Religion
  • Resources for the elderly
  • Royalty
  • School Projects
  • South Asian Heritage Month
  • Supernatural and unexplained phenomena
  • The Civil War
  • The Poor of Hertfordshire
  • The Word is Hertfordshire!
  • Traditional Hertfordshire Project 2017
  • Transport
  • Turn Back Time on Your High Street
  • Witchcraft
  • World War One
  • World War Two
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