Reading Time: 2 minutes If you look closely at the name of the Hudawi Cultural Centre on Great Northern Street, you will find the DNA of its entire mission encoded right into the lettering. Formed as an anagram of the words Huddersfield African... Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute Caribbean Through the Lens takes viewers on a powerful journey through the experiences of Caribbean pioneers who arrived in Britain during the Windrush era and beyond. Told through the voices of several remarkable sto... Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes By KLTV Newsdesk – Residents Asked to Choose from Four Shortlisted Names for Landmark Community Space People across Huddersfield are being invited to help decide the name of a major new public square taking shape i... Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes By KLTV Newsdesk – A new book celebrating the contributions of Black servicemen and women to Britain’s military history has been launched, helping to ensure their remarkable stories are preserved for generatio... Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute By KLTV Newsdesk – In this fascinating veteran interview, Wendy Davenport shares her remarkable journey from a working-class childhood in Yorkshire to serving as a military nurse in the British Army during the... Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes When you look at a double-decker bus from the 1950s, 60s, and 70’s, the hiss of the doors. The clatter of the ticket machine. For most people, that was just the morning commute. But in Kirklees, in Huddersfield, Dewsbury,... Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Huddersfield’s Windrush Church History The 1950’s and 60’s saw the (Diaspora) movement of Caribbean peoples to the British Isles in response to a call from England, the mother country. The call was made to satisfy the nee... Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Story of Huddersfield’s Antilles Credit Union When the Windrush generation arrived in post-war Huddersfield, they did not just face a biting Yorkshire climate; they encountered a freezing financial environment.... Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the wake of World War II, a broken and bankrupt Britain faced a monumental crisis: it had a mountain of rebuilding to do, a brand-new National Health Service to run, and a massive labour shortage. To solve this, the go... Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes By Kirklees Armed Forces TV – Today marks exactly 82 years since the horizon off the coast of Normandy, France, transformed into the largest armada the world had ever seen. On the morning of June 6, 1944, Operation... Read more
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