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Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean origin and in some cases Indo-Caribbean descent. The term Black British developed in the 1950s, refe
Extract from the Westminster Tournament Roll almost certainly showing John Blanke, the figure wearing a brown turban latticed with yellow
A 1651 painting of Scottish noblewoman Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale with her Black servant
Dual portrait of a Black woman and a white woman, identities unknown, c. 1650, by an anonymous hand. The two women, who appear to be of equal standing, are wearing face patches, which were a fashion of the time. The painting is captioned: "I black with white bespott y white with blacke this evil proceeds from thy proud hart then take her: Devill."
William Hogarth's painting Four Times of the Day: Noon (1738) shows a Black London resident (on the right).
British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens or residents of recent Caribbean heritage who further trace much
Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London, which sells African-Caribbean music, textiles, and food including goat meat, yams, mangos and spices.
Photograph of Mary Seacole, taken for a carte de visite by Maull & Company in London (c.1873)
Barbadian and Trinidadian pilots in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
In 1998, a public open space in Brixton, south London, was renamed Windrush Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the ship bringing one of the first large groups of West Indian migrants to the UK.