Mary Seacole On The £50 Note

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Why it’s time for British banknotes to recognise ethnic minorities

My co-lead for the Banknotes Of Colour campaign, Dr Patrick Vernon OBE, wrote on Monday that it was a victory for diversity and LGBT issues for Alan Turing to be recognised on the next £50 note. We believe Alan Turing to be a giant of British history. However, our complaint is with the Bank of Engl…

Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.