by Just Lincolnshire | Nov 2, 2020 | Events
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by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 27, 2020 | Events, News
William Cuffay (1788 – July 1870) was a Chartist leader in early Victorian London. Cuffay was mixed-race, he was born on a merchant ship in the West Indies in 1788, the son of a naval cook and former slave from St Kitts. His family later settled in Old...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE is England’s first Chief Midwifery Officer and Professor of Midwifery at King’s College London and London South Bank University. Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent is understood to have helped deliver Prince...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is an English model, actress, and businesswoman. Discovered at the age of 15, she established herself amongst the most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s and was one of six models of her...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
London’s first post-war black firefighter Frank Bailey. Frank Arthur Bailey came to London from Guyana in 1953 and as a political activist he joined West Indian Standing Conference. He later attended a TUC conference and heard from a Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
One of the first black firefighters to serve with London Fire Brigade has been commemorated with a plaque unveiled at his former station. George Arthur Roberts BEM (1890-1970) served at New Cross Fire Station for the duration of the Second World War and was awarded a...
