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Title
Black British History
Date
2023
Medium
galvanised steel
Accession number
B18_AEB_S001
Acquisition method
commissioned by Legacy West Midlands with funding from Arts Council England, Birmingham City Council, Historic England, the Saintbury Trust and the Active Well-Being Society
Work type
Monument
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
13th May 2023
Access
at all times
Inscription description
panel 1: During WW1 & WW2 / tens of thousands of / Commonwealth \ Black / Servicemen, women and / civilians fought and / worked to aid in allied / victory. / In the Victorian period / Black women like Mary / Price & Mary Seacole / fought for the rights of / all & helped to / transform the health / service.; panel 2: In the 1700’s Black men / like Olaudah Equiano & / Ignatius Sancho / campaigned for Abolition / & Equal Rights to / transform the British / political system / Trade and talent in Tudor / times brought people / such as John Blanke / (trumpeter to Henry VIII) / to England, free people / whose contributions / were valued at the / highest levels. / In 253 AD hundreds of years before the Norman / Conquest the Aurelian Moors Regiment of the / Roman Legion became the / first Black Community to be / settled in Britain