Black History Month

A special celebration of African and Caribbean culture takes place in Hull this month.
As part of Black History Month, a series of family-friendly events are being held at Wilberforce House Museum in High Street and Ferens Art Gallery in Queen Victoria Square.
Activities include storytelling and drumming, exhibitions by international artists, and the chance to design your own African masks and fabrics.
Visitors can also handle shackles and previously-unseen historic exhibits relating to the enslavement of African people.
"Black History Month is an annual event but it will have extra poignancy this year as Hull commemorates William Wilberforce and the bicentenary of his achievement to ban the transatlantic slave trade," says Jane Batty of Hull Museums.

For more information please enquire at any of Hull's museums and galleries or call 300300.

And for more on black history and culture visit www.black-history-month.co.uk