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The Equiano Centre

Please Note: The Equiano Centre operated between 2007 and 2017. Over the years it hosted research projects and initiatives, and a programme of public events including the launch of Queer Black Spaces in addition to curating exhibitions and educational materials. These resources remain available on the Centre's website. The website remains as a resource but will no longer be updated (18.04.2018).

This unique initiative has been established to create a focus for academic and community scholars and research students of all levels to come together and debate emerging and new ideas, theories and  research methods around subjects such as Black History in Britain, and theories of race, racism and anti-racism.

Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner' by Sir William Newenham Montague, Orpen oil on canvas, 1919, National Portrait Gallery

Olaudah Equiano ('Gustavus Vassa'), by Daniel Orme, after W. Denton, stipple engraving, published 1789, National Portrait Gallery

John Smith, 1652-1743, British, 'Negro Boy', Mezzotint, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Francesco Renaldi, Italian, active in Britain (from 1777), 'Muslim Lady Reclining', 1789, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

'Samuel Coleridge-Taylor' by Walter Wallis, oil on canvas, 1881, National Portrait Gallery

Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies)' by Camille Silvy, albumen print, 15 September 1862, National Portrait Gallery

Joanna Boyce Wells, 'Head of a Mulatto Woman (Mrs. Eaton)', 1861, Yale Center for British Art

Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant)' by Albert Charles Challen, oil on panel, 1869, National Portrait Gallery

Queering Black London

In our work exploring Black history in Britain we have been particularly working to uncover, document and make visible Black LGBTQ histories within British history

Events

Events that took place at the Equiano Centre