Image gallery

A selection of archives held in Black Cultural Archives’s collections have been digitised. Click on a thumbnail image below to explore four key themes in Black history that are well-represented in our archive collection.

Please note this image gallery is designed to be viewed in Internet Explorer.

Community

Flyers, posters and photographs reflecting community activity and organisations in 20th century Britain.

Protest

Demonstrations, activism and resistance feature heavily in Black British history.

Arrival

Material which illustrates immigration to Britain in the twentieth century – journeys, arrival, and making a home.

Enslavement

Most archives which provide evidence of the period of enslavement were created by plantation owners or traders - not from the perspective of enslaved people, our collection of material relating to enslavement reflects this.

A description of each image, and its catalogue reference number, is provided in the caption. To find out more about these archives, look up their reference number in the online catalogue.

Please note in many cases Black Cultural Archives is not the copyright holder of these images. The copyright holders for specific images are acknowledged where known. Black Cultural Archives has made every effort to trace the copyright holders for individual records, but in most cases we have not been successful. If you are the copyright holder to any of these images, please contact us at archives@bcaheritage.org.uk.

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