Featuring: Lanre Bakare, Paterson Joseph, Imaobong Umoren
Chair: Colin Grant
Cinema 1, Level -2 (2 mins from Level 0)
Time: 2pm – 3pm
From forgotten cities to erased changemakers — this powerful panel uncovers the histories that Britain tried to bury.
Join award-winning authors Lanre Bakare (We Were There), Paterson Joseph (TEN: Children Who Changed The World), historian Imaobong Umoren (Empire Without End), and chair Colin Grant as they shine a light on the Black British voices, movements, and legacies too often left out of the national story.
Together, they’ll explore what it means to reclaim the past, reframe our present, and reshape the future through truth-telling. Expect rich insight, bold critique, and a celebration of the stories that demand to be remembered. This isn’t history as you were taught it — it’s the history you were never meant to know.
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