This is The Guardian.

Today, Lanray Bakery on Black British History Beyond London.

For most people, their Black British history is limited to a few big landmark moments.

The docking of Empire Windrush in 1948.

And then is there is this for me.

Notting Hill race rights in 1958.

The injured victim at Jamaican is taken to safety, but the police have not been able to reach

all the trouble spots so promptly.

Brixton in 1981, when there was more unrest or uprising.

The murder Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

The investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence by institutional racism and by a failure of professional incompetence, by institutional racism, and by a failure of leadership

by senior officers. Growing up in the 1990s, this is what Lanre Beckeri learned about too.

But growing up in Bradford, he knew instinctively that these events only told part of the story of Black

British history.

They all happen in the Capitol, they all happen in London. And that's not the full story

by any stretch. Black history on these islands is found absolutely everywhere. Edinburgh

Leaf up by the docks. In Bradford, my hometown, Liverpool's got the oldest black community

in the UK, established in 1750s.

So there's a whole world out there.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there's been an effort to bring to life

forgotten black British history in the UK.

But London has still dominated the cultural landscape.

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