{"id":2010,"date":"2022-10-12T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T08:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T08:47:13","slug":"black-history-month-lord-kitchener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2022\/10\/12\/black-history-month-lord-kitchener\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Lord Kitchener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">In celebration of Black History Month, students in the School of History have been writing blogs about key figures in black history. MA History student John Matthews has written this blog about calypso singer Lord Kitchener<\/p>\n<p>When the SS Windrush docked at Tilbury on 22nd July 1948, among the passengers was a calypso singer named Aldwyn Roberts who used the stage name Lord Kitchener. His performance of the calypso \u201cLondon is the place for me\u201d on the quayside was recorded on the newsreels. He continued to perform regularly in the 1940s and 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Among his best remembered calypsos was a celebration of the West Indies cricket team defeating England at Lord\u2019s in 1950 \u2013 \u201cCricket lovely cricket, at Lord\u2019s where I saw it\u201d. He later returned to Trinidad where he died in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Thurrock Local History Society produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TryHskdJq5c\">short video at Tilbury with Tyler Fayose as Lord Kitchener<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TryHskdJq5c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Black History Month, students in the School of History have been writing blogs about key figures in black history. MA History student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2022\/10\/12\/black-history-month-lord-kitchener\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77087,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143892,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}