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...

Lord David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a Black British politician, general practitioner and political activist, who was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian in the UK, having been granted a l...

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt. (21 September 1901 – 1 July 1971) was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist and political activist who served as Trinidad's ...

"Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and little of his music is available in printed form." Samuel Cole...

Ronald Moody was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in prestigious collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Britain, as well as the National G...

Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in the Maafa (slavery) to a family named Brent. Afte...

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...

Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer nicknamed "The Black Terror". Richmond, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition, was the Muhammad Ali of his day - quick-witted a...

Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain's highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers in Iraq. On 18 March 2005, the Black British Army sold...