Black History Month: Transport for London launch tube map featuring Black British icons

The Tube map has been recreated to honour hundreds of people who helped shape black history in Britain.

All 272 stations have been renamed after figures dating from pre-Tudor times to the present day, including the first black woman to serve in the Royal Navy and a Victorian circus owner immortalised by The Beatles.

More recent names include the novelist Andrea Levy, the comedian Felix Dexter, the Hot Chocolate singer Errol Brown and the footballers Laurie Cunningham and Justin Fashanu.

The map has been produced by Transport for London in partnership with Black Cultural Archives to mark Black History Month.

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