Showing at St Ann's Library free this weekend is 'Black Britain on Film', a brand new series of archive film programmes featuring archives from across the UK, available to the British public for the first time.
The latest release from this touring programme explores the vital history of Black Britain throughout the 20th century. Bringing together films spanning 1901 to 1985 and taken from many different regions of the UK, it offers incredibly rare, little-seen and valuable depictions of Black British life on screen.
Watch miners in the collieries of Edwardian Lancashire and Yorkshire; and soldiers from across the Empire joining the services to fight for King and 'mother country' in World War I. See rare colour footage of multi-racial Cardiff in 1957, a Nigerian wedding in Cornwall in 1964, and touching interviews with black school leavers in 1965; witness growing racial tensions on a Liverpool housing estate and in New Cross, London; communities in search of their roots and partying on the streets of Notting Hill during Carnival.
After the screening, there will be a Q&A by Menelik Shabazz, a Barbados-born film director, producer, educator and writer, acknowledged as a pioneer in the development of independent Black British cinema.
This event will take place on this Saturday from 6pm to 8pm at St Ann's Library, Cissbury Road, London, N15 5PU.
To attend you'll need to register.
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