Black British History

"Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls i...

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...

"Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks in Britain distinguished himself as an authority in tracing the history of Black pe...

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...