Find out about Birmingham’s Windrush Generation and The Birmingham Black Oral History Project.

Eunice and four other local women founded a charity called ‘Shades of Black. Find out more about her story and listen to her oral history.

Ryland worked as a bus conductor but moved through a variety of other jobs in engineering, music and writing. Find out more about his story...

Frank Scantlebury worked for a railway signage company, and later worked for British Rail. Find out more about his story...

Carlton became Britain’s first Black Headteacher of a secondary school in 1982. He also spent many years a professional dancer. Find out more about his story...

Esme worked as a teacher on a ‘Sugar Estate’ in Jamaica. Later she trained as a social worker in England. Find out more about her story...