Black British History

John Caesar (1764 – 15 February 1796), nicknamed 'Black Caesar' was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia. A bushranger was usually a thi...

Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Britannia; The History of Blacks in Britain distinguished himself as an authority in tracing the history of Black people as they made their way to Western Europe. Dr. Scob...

James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7 August 1879 at 38 Queen Street Salford, Lancashire, England. His Jamaican father, George Peters, was from the West...