For the Caribbean diaspora living in London, there may never have been a quieter weekend than the one in August 2020 that normally would have seen the Notting Hill Carnival.
England has no shortage of full-sensory festival experiences, from music in Glastonbury to Diwali celebrations in Leicester. But there’s nothing quite like visiting the Notting Hill Carnival. You exit the tube station, get off the bus or dismount your bike, and enter the irresistible hum of the celebrations, stepping off the pavement and onto the road.
That hum you hear is the combined sound of hundreds of steel pans hammering out calypso; of the decadently decorated band floats; the sweet whisperings of the girl with the Afro kissing the boy with the fade; the soca-infused bass of your favorite sound system; the rustle of the proudest feathers of a peacocking performer; the pinging of a bikini strap; the clangs of the jerk drums; the slosh of sweet punch; the back-clapping of elders who still treat Carn
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By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
For the Caribbean diaspora living in London, there may never have been a quieter weekend than the one in August 2020 that normally would have seen the Notting Hill Carnival.
England has no shortage of full-sensory festival experiences, from music in Glastonbury to Diwali celebrations in Leicester. But thereâs nothing quite like visiting the Notting Hill Carnival. You exit the tube station, get off the bus or dismount your bike, and enter the irresistible hum of the celebrations, stepping off the pavement and onto the road.
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Black lives regained
Some of the names in a new book that celebrates the lives of pre-Windrush immigrants take even Angela Cobbinah by surprise
Francis Barber
HE helped advance Darwin’s theories of evolution through his skills in taxidermy and knowledge of the South American tropics, but few will have heard of freed slave John Edmondstone.
The extraordinary story of how he began working with the young Darwin after moving into the same Edinburgh street as him in 1823 is told in
Before Windrush: West Indians in Britain, the latest book to emerge from husband-and-wife team Martin and Asher Hoyles.
“Edmondstone was a skilled taxidermist and taught Darwin how to preserve vertebrate specimens for his research,” says Martin.