Black Britons - Race Riots in South Shields The first race riots to take place in Britain were in South Shields (Tyneside). A number of Arab and Somali seamen had settled there in the 1860's, and theses populations were added to by West African and West Indian Seamen who settled in North shields before the First ...

Ottobah Cuggano was born around 1757 in Ghana, he was kidnapped as a slave at around thirteen. He came to England from ...

Sailors from Africa, the West Indies and India have contributed to the life on board British ships during times of both peace and war