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 | News
Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford OBE (24 May 1956 – 3 January 2019) was a British fashion designer. Beginning in the mid-1980s he established an international reputation as one of the UK’s most respected and consistently relevant designers of men’s and...
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)...