The borough’s annual black history season will this year focus on the life and work of Jamaican politician Marcus Garvey.

The Harrow Black History Month Group has announced the details of their upcoming season which will examine the career of the campaigner.

In 1914 Mr Garvey set up the Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League (UNIA), which by the 1920s became one of the biggest African-focused organisations in the world.

Harrow BHM Group chairman Deven Pillay said: "The story of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA needs to be better known in Harrow, not only because of the place his organisation holds within world history, but because Garvey having lived the last few years of his life, and died, in London, makes it also British history.”

The season will start from Monday, October 6, with have a talk called “Marcus Garvey and the UNIA at 100”, from 6.30pm at the Harrow Civic Centre, in Station Road.

This will be followed by a series of lectures throughout October and November looking at the history of the organisation and the group.

Those interested in finding out about the full schedule of events can do so by clicking here.