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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/

Keep your eyes peeled for a documentary📹 with the fantastic @JonesNatalie07+@mariangwyn of @rcccymru discussing Ystumllyn's life+Wales' relationship with him🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. For more information on Ystumllyn's life, check out this blog from @friendschurches friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/john-ystumllyn… 4/

Bore da! There will be a statue of Betty Campbell in #Cardiff🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿: do you know about the work of Betty? Learn more here on her groundbreaking educational work

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #Cymru #Wales #Hanes #Cofio #HanesDu #MisHanesPoblDu
bbc.co.uk/programmes/pro… 5/

It is officially #BlackHistoryMonth! Tune into this lecture given by @abubakr52293241 on #BlackHistory this evening online. More info on the picture below 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

#Hanes #Cymru #MisHanesPoblDu 6/

#DidYouKnow that Haile Selassie🇪🇹 went camping in #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿? In 1939, Haile Selassie went camping🏕️ for a fortnight near #Swansea🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at the #Penllergare Estate, Penllergaer. While he stayed there, WWII broke out! Learn more here: babylonwales.blogspot.com/2009/08/haile-…

#Hanes #MisHanesPoblDu 7/

As you can see at this photograph taken of Haile Selassie in Penllergare, above the entrance to his tent it reads "His Imperial Majesty, The Emperor of Abyssinia"

#WelshHistory #BlackHistory #HaileSelassie #Cymru #HanesCymraeg #MisHanesPoblDu #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM 8/

2day, our contribution is a thread on Welsh language and people of colour in #Wales. There are roughly just over 10k Welsh language speakers of colour in #Wales. The real figure is much higher. Diolch yn fawr to Seimon Brooks for digging out these figures