1. Narrating black British history Small Island – Andrea Levy

2. 122 AD – Hadrian’s Wall

3. 193-211 AD Septimus Severus

4. 1807 – Slave Trade Act Act of parliament abolished slave trade in the British Empire. Put an end to the legal transportation of Africans across the Atlantic.

5. 1948 - SS Empire Windrush Docking at Tilbury – starting point of black history in Britain?

6. Salman Rushdie They arrived “in good faith, believing themselves wanted, following extraordinary advertisements full of hope and optimism which made Britain out to be a land of plenty, a golden opportunity not to be missed” (1991: 133)* * Imaginary Homelands. London: Ganta Books.

7. 2001 The British “are all British in a hyphenated way...Britishness is, and always was, braided” (Childs, 2001)*. *Hyphen-nation. EnterText 2(1). http://arts.brunel.ac.uk/gate/entertext/2_1_pdfs/childs.pdf http://arts

8. 2007 – 200 years after Act Small Island was chosen as part of a public annual reading project. 50K copies were distributed free of charge in the cities of Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow and Hull (cities involved in the slave trade and the campaign for its abolition).