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An Introduction

Welcome to Cambridge Black History Month 2020

Black History Month

Black History Month is held every year in October. It’s promotes the
history and contributions that Black people with origins in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and other Black communities around the world have made to Cambridge and the UK.

Events around the country include history and heritage, arts and
culture, news and ideas from the communities. It is an opportunity
to share activities and experiences.

Black History Month was first celebrated in the UK in 1987. We
have celebrated it in Cambridge since 2005.

Black History Month 2020

This year, as with many other activities and events, we are launching the programme on-line – gathering and sharing talks and lectures, articles, cookery, exhibitions and interviews to create an archive and celebrate Cambridge Black Heritage.

We hope you enjoy it!

Please join the conversation on our facebook page:
Cambridge Black Heritage 

 

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Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit and, if you do,  would consider making a donation today.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge.

As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion – unlike many other museums in Cambridge – and are facing the need to drastically cut back our operations which could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website.

If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well. If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge