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*As SOAS marks Black History Month <http://soasunion.org/activities/bhm14/> we will be highlighting a number of historical collections held by SOAS Archives <https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/>, and which reveal the long-standing Black presence in the UK, as well as the contributions and achievements of Black peoples in local, national and international arenas. * The SOAS Archives team is compiling a series of blogs <http://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/> for "Black History" Month. This week we look at the papers of Dr Robert Wellesley Cole, surgeon, author and advocate for the rights of African peoples in the UK, West Africa, and across the Global African Diaspora*.* http://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/2014/10/07/black-history-month-2014-papers-of-robert-wellesley-cole/ <http://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/> *"Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benjamin_Ageh_Wellesley_Cole> (1907-1995): the first African and first Black person to be elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England". "Whilst in England, amongst other involvements Wellesley Cole became President of the Newcastle International Club; President of the Society for the Cultural Advancement of Africa; Director of the West African Students Union (WASU) <http://wasuproject.org.uk/>; President of the League of Coloured Peoples of Great Britain and Ireland; founder member of the West African Society and editor of its journal Africana, and member of the Advisory Committee of the Colonial Bureau of the Fabian Society from 1943 to 1950. From 1942 to 1958 he was a member of the Colonial Office Advisory Committees on the Welfare of Colonial Peoples in the United Kingdom, the Colonial Advisory Medical Committee and the Colonial Economic and Development Council"...* To access SOAS archives, please see: http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/ Kind regards Joanne -- Joanne Anthony Acting Deputy Head of Archives & Special Collections SOAS Library SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4181 Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4189 www.soas.ac.uk