{"id":13467,"date":"2022-04-20T18:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=206732"},"modified":"2022-04-20T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:34:10","slug":"trailblazers-of-black-british-theatre","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/trailblazers-of-black-british-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailblazers of black British theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 20 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Stephen Bourne introduces Spencer Mizen to some of the pioneers of black British theatre, from Ira Aldridge, 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