http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/black-people-at-the-old-bailey/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/black-people-at-the-old-bailey/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:32:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3762 When searching the Records for The evidence of Early Black settlers in Britain.  Evidence is to be found everywhere. It just needs searching out.  the Old Bailey Website is an excellent source of records for evidence of Black people, living in Britain before the 20th Century. Here are some examples. Black people in the Old [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/black-people-at-the-old-bailey/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/court-records-thomas-robinson-theft-burglary-17th-january-1724/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/court-records-thomas-robinson-theft-burglary-17th-january-1724/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:45:48 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2227 Part of the Myth that black people have only been living in Britain since the 1950′s has been due to the general inaccessible nature of public records to the masses. In today’s modern world, more and more records are becoming available to people online. The Old Bailey Online site is one such resource that helps [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/court-records-thomas-robinson-theft-burglary-17th-january-1724/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=646 Found an Interesting post today called 12 Things The Negro Must Do – How Not To Become Scapegoats For Degenerate Black Community Behavior. It was written in around the turn of the last century by a woman called Nannie Helen Burroughs. Nannie Helen Burroughs – Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an educator, orator, religious leader [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/froma-london-diary-1942/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/froma-london-diary-1942/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:41:11 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=245 For instance, a British soldier writes to complain that in an English port part of a well-known restaurant is barred to “coloured troops”. ?He says that the employees of the restaurant disliked discriminating against coloured soldiers, and that a group of British soldiers near said what they thought about colour prejudice. He adds that his [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/froma-london-diary-1942/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:39:28 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=169 Black Canadians in Canada: Total Population of Canada: 30+,000,000 Number of Black People living in Canada: 670,000 Percentage of Canadian Population that’s Black: 2% Percentage of the Black Canadian Population living in: - Toronto – 47% - Montreal – 20% - Ottawa – 6% - Vancouver – 3% - Halifax – 2% Where Black Canadians [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/feed/ 5 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:53:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=115 It would of course be easy to leave such men as ]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:43:22 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=113 * 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 Nigel File and chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995) * Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998) * Wonderful [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/feed/ 0