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Guest Blog: Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Birmingham’s First Black Minister, in the British Press, 1883-1889 by Sidonia Serafini and Barbara McCaskill

At the British Newspaper Archive we are always delighted to hear how The Archive has been used to inform a range of different research interests. In this very special guest blog, Sidonia Serafini of Georgia College & State University and Barbara McCaskill of the University of Georgia take a look at the work of the Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Birmingham’s first Black minister, as reported in the British press, through the newspapers to be found in our collection. In March

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The Visit by Frederick Douglass to Britain in 1847 – and How He Eventually Managed to Set Sail from Liverpool

To celebrate ‘Black History Month’, here is a fascinating newspaper story from 1847 that reports on a visit that the emancipated slave, writer and statesman, Frederick Douglass, made to Britain in 1847. It looked like Douglass would have problems returning to the USA from Liverpool, until the captain of Cunard Ship, ‘Cambria’, proposed a heart-gladdening solution to a thorny problem… Stirling Observer – Thursday 15 April 1847 Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000474/18470415/021/0004 Saturday 02 March

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