Correspondence and meeting notes relating to the organisation and future of the Notting Hill Carnival. Relates to issues such as police community relations, media and press relations, Notting Hill disturbance 1989, Black peoples and the police, Ethnic Minorities.
Category Archives: General Subject Files
BG/P/18/1/18
File mainly contains printed articles, handwritten notes and correspondence concerning issues on the agenda for Black Members of Parliament following the historic election of Britain’s first Black Members of Parliament in 1987 (Bernie Grant; Paul Boateng; Diane Abbott; Keith Vaz). Also includes biographical information on Black Members of Parliament in Britain. Relates to subjects such as Black Sections, Labour Party, Black Councillors, Black representation in Parliament, and Lord Pitt.
BG/P/18/1/19
Correspondence and handwritten notes relating to the African Caribbean Mental Health Association.
BG/P/18/1/20
BG/P/18/1/15
File comprises two items of correspondence from Lord David Pitt [first Black peer and Member of the Parliamentary Black Caucus] to Bernie Grant concerning a constituent and re the Afro-Caribbean Medical Society.
BG/P/18/1/16
Correspondence re Jon Daniel’s campaign for a set of special stamps to celebrate the Black contribution to Britain.
BG/P/18/1/17
File contains correspondence between Bernie Grant [as a patron of the Black Cultural Archives] and executive members of the Black Cultural Archives. Includes correspondence, mission statements and proposals dealing with the establishment of the Black Cultural Archives and the National Museum and Archives for Black History and Culture. Relates to issues such as the Archival Centre for Black British history; African Reparations Movement (ARM); African Peoples Historical Monument Foundation; Archives and Museum of Black Heritage (AMBH). Also includes a report concerning Bernie Grant’s [as Chair of the ARM] proposal to establish an Institute for the Study of Slavery, Colonialism, and the African Diaspora (ISSCAD) in partnership with Middlesex University and Haringey Council; Lottery funding bid preparatory documents; Inventory of Black history archival material (mainly ephemera) on loan to the Black Cultural Archives, as purchased by Bernie Grant at auction.
BG/P/18/1/11
Includes one item of correspondence from Association of London Authorities (ALA) Race Committee to Bernie Grant re offering greater support for Black Members of Parliament. Also contains Bernie Grant’s handwritten agenda notes from meeting with ALA.
BG/P/18/1/12
File contains documentation such as constituent letters relating to returning to home of origin and questioning the fairness of the system re payment of health benefits. Relates to the issues of Disability Allowance abroad.
BG/P/18/1/13
File consists of correspondence and minutes relating to the organising of a conference entitled ‘Racism in the Acting Profession’. Also includes letter from one constituent. The name ‘Stafford’ was annotated on original folder.