Posted on 11 March 2013. Tags: Africans in Britain, Black British History, Black Edwardians, Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914, Black London-Life before Emancipation, Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958, Books, Caribbean studies, England Affric-An Ethnological Survey, Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain, colouring over the white Line

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!
Books about Black British History
Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer
(Pluto Press 1984)
Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina
(John Murray,1995)
Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Caribbean History, Slavery
Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: Annie Gross, Black Edwardians, Black actors, Chicago, Crime, Jeffery Green, Jessie Macintosh, London, Murder, The Daily Mail, The Times, The illustrated Police News

Annie Gross was a black entertainer from America. She and her husband Harry had been working in New York before touring British Music Halls.
Harry Gross had left Annie for an actress called Jessie Mackintosh, they were living in actors lodgings in Coram Street, Central London. He had been in a song ...
Posted in African American History, Black Britain, Black History, Black Women
Posted on 21 October 2009. Tags: Black British, Black Britons, Black Edwardians, Elizabeth Davinier, black bourgeouisie, black victorians, captain john lindsay, dido elizabeth lindsay, kenwood house, lord mansfield, mixed race, the black aristocracy

In the 18th Century, some Black people in the Eighteenth Century were considerably more privileged than most. One such Woman was Dido Elizabeth Bell Lindsay.
Dido was the daughter of Captain John Lindsay of the Royal Navy. She was born in England to an African mother who was captured from a Spanish ship.
Dido lived in Kenwood ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Black Women, Caribbean History