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You can find me here:

Henrys VII & VIII Black Trumpeter http://JohnBlanke.com

Black Presence in Renaissance Europe http://veronese1515.blogspot.co.uk

Bringing Diversity to the Big Screen http://A2BFour.weebly.com

My take on Contemporary Art http://assistedreadymade.blogspot.co.uk

My views on Life, Universe & Everything http://therantsofmichael.blogspot.co.uk

My family 1961 photograph http://ohajuru.weebly.com

My Radio Five in the Eye Program http://www.colourfulradio.com/presenter/5itE

My selection of black images in London Galleries

http://imageoftheblackinlondongalleries.weebly.com

Academic Background

BSc (Hons) 2.1 Physics University of Leeds 1974

BA (Hons) 2.1 Art History Open University 2008

Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2017)