British Sikhs number over 535,000 people and account for 0.8% of the British population as of 2021, forming the United Kingdom's fourth-largest religious group. According to the 2021 United Kingdom ce
Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend
Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and the first Sikh in England, on the Lower Terrace of Osborne House on August 28, 1854.
Sikhs meet with PM David Cameron
Sikhs distributing langar (free community kitchen) in London
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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).