The Engine of British Music – How Black Music Powers 80% of the UK...
The facts, then. In March 2026, UK Music released the first report of its kind in Europe. It proved what many inside the industry...
Stagecoach Mary: The Former Slave Who Drove the Mail Through Montana’s Worst Weather
In 1895, a 60 year old former slave named Mary Fields secured a contract to deliver US mail by stagecoach between Cascade, Montana, and...
The Striker England Chose Then Changed Its Mind
The facts, then. On a Tuesday morning in October 1925, Plymouth Argyle manager Bob Jack called his inside-left into the office. He put an...
Lord Woodbine: The Beatles First Manager History Forgot
The Beatles' first manager was not Brian Epstein. It was not Allan Williams either, though Williams gets that credit often. The man who first...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Invented Rock and Roll – Then History Forgot Her
Imagine a world where rock and roll exists but no one knows who created it. That world is real. It happened. And the person...
The Man Who Made Jack Daniel’s: Nearest Green’s 150 Year Secret
Nathan "Nearest" Green was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. No one recorded his exact birth date. No one wrote down his parents'...
The 500 Year European Craze for Eating Egyptian Mummies
The facts, then. From the 12th century until the late 18th century, Europeans consumed ground-up Egyptian mummies as medicine. They believed the blackened remains...
The Clerk Who Became a Viscount – José Bernardino de Sá and the Ship...
The facts, then. On July 27, 1825, a brig called the Espadarte pulled into Rio de Janeiro’s harbour. Its name meant “Swordfish,” but its...
The Look-Alike Prisoners Who Revolutionised Forensics – The Strange Case of Will and William...
The facts, then. On May 1, 1903, a Black man named Will West arrived at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, to begin...
Marion Stokes – The Woman Who Recorded 35 Years of Television
The facts, then. In November 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, an African-American woman in Philadelphia named Marion Stokes did something that would consume...
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