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#DidYouKnow that #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is home to the oldest continuous #Black community in #Britain🇬🇧? From now until the end of #BlackHistoryMonth, we are going to be sharing facts+information about #Black heritage in #Wales to highlight hidden histories

#BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory 1/
Check out this website from @TigerBayWorld called "the Heritage and Cultural Exchange Archive". There is a wealth of resources including #OralHistory 🗣️, photographs and documents 2/

hcearchive.org.uk/collection-tree

#Hanes #Cymru #Treftadaeth #HanesDu #MisHanesDu #TigerBay
Not all #Black history in Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 beings+ends with #TigerBay: far from it. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century Welsh gardener+1st first well-recorded black person of North Wales. He was stolen from Africa and brought to Wales. Here is a portrait of him as a teenager in 1754 3/ Image
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It's not "different" in #Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Cardiff is home to the oldest continuous Black community in the #UnitedKingdom🇬🇧. Historically, Cardiff🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 had one of the largest #Black communities in the #UK🇬🇧. #BlackLivesMatter now, and throughout history. 1/
Mahmood Hussein Mattan, pictured below, was a sailor from #Somaliland and worked as a merchant seamen. His work brought him to #TigerBay in #Cardiff, #Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

Here is a photograph of Mahmood. 2/
He wrongfully convicted of the murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952, and the murder took place in the dockland area of South Cardiff, Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Within a few hours Mattan was questioned by the Cardiff City Police+ten days later he was charged with Volpert's murder. 3/
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📢📢Announcement📢📢

We asked you if you wanted an open-access syllabus, you said yes.

We've created an open-access #GoogleDocument📝 with resources about #CardiffRaceRiots1919 and #RaceRiots in #Newport

Visit us here: tinyurl.com/1919syllabus

#Cymru #Hanes #Caerdydd #History
3. In fact, it was @ShaheenCymru who recommended Peter Fryer's 'Staying Power: History of Black Britain" to us a few years ago

plutobooks.com/9780745338309/…

#CardiffRaceRiots1919
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1. Here's a #rundown of what has happened thus far on Friday 13th June 1️⃣9️⃣1️⃣9️⃣:

#Cardiff1919RaceRiots
2. At two pm 🕑 this afternoon, an argument broke out between a French man 🇫🇷 and an Algerian man 🇩🇿 somewhere in #Cardiff

#Cardiff1919RaceRiots
3. Three hours on, I'm uncertain as to what happened next. I'll check twitter and Facebook and that.

#Cardiff1919RaceRiots
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