Posted on 10 October 2010. Tags: Adelaide Hall, Black British History, Black Britons, Black Londoners, Blitz, Britains Black Community, Dr Harold Moody, E.I Ekpenyon, Elizabeth Welch, Esther Bruce, Ken (Snake Hips) Johnson, Learie Constantine, Mother Country, Stephen Bourne, The Home Front, Una Marson, WW11, WW2, black soldiers

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. Tags: Black Londoners, GLC, Grenada, League of Coloured Peoples, London county council, Lord Pitt, Politics

Lord David Pitt ,Baron Pitt of Hampstead, now deceased was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian, having been granted a life peerage in 1975. Born in Grenada, he came to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at Edinburgh University. His achievements in his two chosen careers of medicine and politics were considerable. In 1943, while ...
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Posted on 16 October 2009. Tags: Black, Black Britain, Black History, Black Londoners, Blacks, London, Newspapers, dance

Above is a set of Newspaper articles from the 1780s.? Black Dance in London - Circa 1780s
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Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: Abolition, Black Britain, Black British, Black Londoners, London, Servants, Slavery

Black British Timeline
First era of large scale settlement of blacks in Britain. Spans period of Britain's involvement in the tri-continental slave trade. Black slaves were in attendance as sea captains sauntered through the streets. In Tottenham, All Hallows Church baptismal register records "John Cyras, Captain Madden's black" in March 1718, and at St Mary's Church, ...
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