Name: Uncovering York’s Black History - 9 June
Start: 2026-06-09T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-09T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Museum Gardens

$Uncovering York\u2019s Black History - 9 June$

Explore York’s Black history from Roman times to the 1950s on a guided walk with Olivia Carpenter, uncovering 2,000 years of heritage.
About this Event

Speakers: Olivia Carpenter

Discover York’s rich Black history on a fascinating journey spanning nearly 2,000 years - from Roman Eboracum to the 1950s.

Join Olivia Carpenter of the University of York for a historic guided walk as she introduces ten key sites where people of African descent stayed, worked or visited. Starting out with the ancient period and Roman ruins, find out more about this vital but less well-known part of the city’s past.

All sites are within easy walking distance of each other. Please meet at the front gate to Museum Gardens on Museum Street.

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Conversazione at the Social Science Congress at the Assembly Rooms, York, 1864.)

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