Dr Caroline Bressey
Caroline Bressey is a Reader in Historical Geography, in the Department of Geography, University College London.  Her interests are focused on historical and cultural geographies of the black presence in Britain particularly London, Victorian theories of race and anti-racism and the links between contemporary identity and the diverse histories of London. 

Her first book Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste, focuses upon the radical politics of Catherine Impey's writings in the Victorian anti-racist periodical Anti-Caste,  as well as the geography of Anti-Caste's readership and its place in the  history of the anti-racist movement in Britain, and was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013.

Ingrid Pollard
Ingrid Pollard was born in Georgetown, Guyana. In the 1980s she was part of a constituency of British artists who championed black creative practice, showcasing her work in group exhibitions such as The Thin Black Line at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1985), D-Max (1987) and Self-Evident (1995), both at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

Many of her projects are published in the Autograph ABP monograph Ingrid Pollard: Postcards Home (2004). In 2007, Pollard was awarded the Leverhulme Fellowship Award. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and received her doctorate-by-publication from the University of Westminster in 2016. Her work is represented in the collections of Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, and Arts Council England.

Dr Gemma Romain
Gemma Romain is an independent historian specialising in Caribbean and Black British history, with a particular interest in archives and queer Black British histories.

She has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions and displays relating to Caribbean and Black British history including the 2014-2015 Tate Britain display ‘Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39’, co-curated with Caroline Bressey. She is the author of the book Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and has been awarded a 2018 Paul Mellon Centre Mid-Career Fellowship for her new project Berto Pasuka and Queer Black British Art.