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Pearl Alcock - the outsider artist who provided a queer safe space for London's Black gay community

Google Doodle celebrates the pioneering American model and disability rights activist who championed for the fashion industry's inclusion of

Yvonne Conolly - Britain's first Black female headteacher

Pablo Fanque – master horseman and first Black circus owner in Britain

John Richard Archer – the first Black mayor a borough in London and founding President of the Africa Progress Union

Ira Aldridge - the UK's first Black Shakespearan actor

Vivian Anderson- first Black Briton to play for the senior men's England national football team

Arthur Wharton (28 October 1865 – 12 December 1930) is widely considered to be the first Black professional footballer in the world.

Laurence Paul Cunningham was an English professional footballer and first British footballer signed by Real Madrid

Emma and her sister are known to be the earliest known Black women footballers in the UK

Lieutenant Walter Tull was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of African-Caribbean descent.

To mark the winter FIFA World Cup 2023, we'll be exploring some UK Black firsts in football throughout December.

Ulric Cross was nicknamed 'The Black Hornet' and was a highly decorated RAF Squadron Leader who flew 80 operational flights over Germany

Lilian Bader overcame discrimination and racism to become one of the first women of Afro-Caribbean heritage to join the RAF

Under the umbrella of the Black Poppy Rose we'll be celebrating Remembrance Month to illuminate the heroic and unsung lives of service men

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with East African heritage Kathleen Wrasama

As part of our Sharing Journeys campaign for #BHMUK22 we examine how African American GIs crossed the colour bar in the UK during 2WW

Andrew Watson was a Scottish footballer who is widely considered to be the world's first black person to play association football at intern

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with North and South American heritage.

Google Doodle pays tributes to Amanda Aldridge, British opera singer and composer