{"id":56,"date":"2021-07-07T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/?p=56"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:02:47","slug":"edi-reading-andy-benniston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/07\/07\/edi-reading-andy-benniston\/","title":{"rendered":"EDI Reading: Andy Benniston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of Black History Month last year, I wrote a piece about the American chemist Percy Lavon Julian. This started me off thinking about who were the most noted black scientists in the UK, since when doing any research all the examples seemed to be from the USA. Having searched for information I came across the following book and purchased it over the internet. It is well worth a look at especially the opening chapters as it asks some thought-provoking questions about the information we teach in schools.\u00a0 If anyone would like to borrow the book just get in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/files\/2021\/07\/71bje5EEltL-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/files\/2021\/07\/71bje5EEltL-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/files\/2021\/07\/71bje5EEltL-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/files\/2021\/07\/71bje5EEltL-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/files\/2021\/07\/71bje5EEltL.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Black History Month last year, I wrote a piece about the American chemist Percy Lavon Julian. This started me off thinking about who were the most noted black scientists in the UK, since when doing any research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/07\/07\/edi-reading-andy-benniston\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}