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Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we highlight the life and career of inspirational artist and director, Steve McQueen. Sir Steven Rodney McQueen, was born in Ealing in 1969, Ealing, to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, both of whom had immigrated to England. He studied art in London at the Chelsea […]

John Edmonstone was born into slavery on a plantation belonging to Scottish politician Charles Edmonstone in Demerara (what is now Guyana, South America), in the late 1700s. The politician often played host to his friend and famed naturalist Charles Waterton, who would often have John accompany him on trips into the rainforest to observe the […]

Continuing our agency’s support for Black History Month, today we praise Doreen Lawrence OBE, mother of Stephen Lawrence, who has been a pioneering campaigner and force for good since that tragic day in 1993. Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE. Anti-racism campaigner and Labour peer. The charitable foundation she set up in Stephen’s memory is providing […]

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I’m from a small town in Romania that was near the border of the Republic of Moldova. I studied Computer Science and Mathematics and I was 100% certain that I wanted to become an engineer, as I come from a whole family of engineers. However, I […]

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background?I did a music degree at the University of Sheffield as I thought music would cover a lot of different skills and topics such as being creative, performance and there’s lots of analysis of music, from a psychological point of view, historically and mathematically. How did you […]

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I’m from Leeds. I didn’t go to University; I got a contracting placement at Google for 2.5 years as a Service Product Specialist before moving to the Google AdWords department where I supported small to medium businesses with the set up of their AdWords accounts. That […]