Black History Month - Post Card History of Blacks in Britain

I love reading about the history of blacks in Britain, I come across all sorts of interesting bits of information, this website is one of my very favourites.

Created and researched by Historian Jeffrey Green based in South London, Jeffrey chronicles the life and times of Blacks in Britain from Andrew Bogle 1802-1877 a servant at the household of the Tichborne family and played a major part in one of the longest and most controversial trials of the 19th century, to people such as Robert Branford, 1817-1869 who was a: London police superintendent, amongst the many others detailed in 180 separate entries of life in Britain for Blacks..

Jeffrey Green offers a fascinating detailed insight into the lives of Blacks living  in Britain. Click on the picture above to find out more.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has published over thirty of his articles, and he has contributed to several American reference works 

Some of my personal favourites within the stories are:-

H. E. Lewis, “the Negro Mesmerist” 1850-1857

Sir Samuel Lewis (1843-1903)  

Dr J. J. Brown of Hackney (1882-1953)

They tell a fascinating tale of what life was like in earlier eras, how people lived in ways we would not expect from what we have been taught about history.

These well researched articles show us life lived up and down the country of ordinary people living extraordinary lives!