Claiming otherwise leads to embarrassing mistakes, as in the recent removal of a plaque to the ‘first black British woman’, who turned out to be from the eastern Mediterranean. Her sit-down with Ford proves why she is such a brilliant signing for the latest series of the long-running show, which has started to feel a little past its sell-by date in recent years. It’s a real full circle moment for Hammond, who first found fame as a Big Brother contestant best known for crashing through a garden table during her two-week stint in the notorious house. The worst of the outbreak tapered off in the fall of 1666, around the same time as another destructive event—the Great Fire of London. The plague awakes an anti-Semitic rage around Europe, causing repeated massacres of Jewish communities, with the first one taking place in Provence, where 40 Jews were murdered.

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Should you ever need an instant serotonin boost, simply type “ Alison Hammond” and “Harrison Ford” into YouTube. The suggestion that Severus had black ancestry has been widely repeated, and the Museum of Cambridge this month hosted “Black History Lectures” that included a talk on the ancient ruler. The ruler was born in the Roman city of Leptis Magna on the coast of what is Libya, and the emperor’s connection to Britain lies in the fact that he died near York in 211AD during a military campaign, ending a reign that began in 193AD.For the Romans, ‘Africa’ was North Africa, before the arrival of the Arabs, and part of the Graeco-Roman world. From Mary Seacole who funded her own trip to Crimea during the war to establish the British hotel to provide respite and recovery to injured soldiers to Ira Aldridge who was the first African American actor to achieve success on the international stage, there are so many famous black people that despite their amazing achievements aren't as well-known as they should be today.

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Each episode, we take a look at the week to come and share events that happened that week in history: from births and deaths of pioneering Black Brits to events of national and international importance. Join Alison Hammond as she takes a journey Black in time to meet some of the most famous and interesting black people of all time.Also included are informative ‘Fact File’ sections, which provide overviews of key aspects of Black British history, such as the slave trade and the Race Relations Act. She might not have managed any viral moments on a par with her interview with Ford, but she brought some spark to an awards format that’s been set in stone for decades.

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The avian-borne flu that resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide, the 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before spreading around the world.Cold winds remove moisture from evergreen foliage more quickly than it can be replenished by the roots; this can cause leaf browning particularly at the tips and margins. Even when her subjects are an entirely different species, Hammond remains unfazed: in 2020, she had a chat with a contender for European Tree of the Year, communicating with the 1,000-year-old oak in question via a “tree whisperer”. Vaughan Gething is the only black member of the Senedd but says: ‘I’m here because I’m part of a team. As the army catapults the infected bodies of their dead over city walls, the under-siege Genoese become infected also.