Posted on 10 October 2010.
Black British History went through something of a coming out party in the late 1990's and early naughties. Real interest arose in the contributions of Black people in Britain and The Internet brought forth a whole plethora of sites and snippets of information all with the aim of finally setting the history books straight. However, ...
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Posted on 26 September 2010.
Black People in Britain Before the Windrush by Jeffrey Green. Jeffrey Green argues that to ignore the diverse black presence in Britain prior to the 1940s is to perpetuate a distorted view of British history.` How do we explain the widespread ignorance of the presence of people of African and Caribbean origin in British ...
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Posted on 21 September 2010.
Tommy Martin was born in Reading in 1916. In 1917, the family moved to Deptford. At 14 he ran away from home and joined a fairground, working in a Boxing Booth. In the late 1920s / early 30s there was always a token black boxer in a troupe, which helped draw crowds along with the slogan ...
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Posted on 26 May 2010.
The Annual Register Marriage Record Record of a Michael Thomas(Black) and? Ann Brandley (White) being married in Southwark on November 5th, 1770. This Morning Michael Thomas, a black, and Ann Brandley, a white, were married at St. Olave's, Southwark; but while the ceremony was performing a press-gang interrupted the minister ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009.
Was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1882 and came to London in 1904 to study medicine at Kings College.? Despite being an excellent student and the recipient of many prizes - Moody found it difficult to get both work and lodgings. Eventually he set up his own successful practice in Peckham where he met and married ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009.
A reading list of books related to the ongoing black presence in Britain, Slavery, colonialism and black Settlement in the U.K The list is by no means exhaustive! Staying ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009.
William Davidson was a Co Conspiritor in a plan to blow up Parliament.
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