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    • Roots Entwined: Inter-racial families in Yorkshire
    • Discovering Black History in Wales – The Early Days
    • Charlotte Gardiner and Lucy Johnson: Black Women and the Gordon Riots of June 1780
    • Henry McGilchrist – Kettle Drummer of the 3rd (King’s Own) Dragoons
    • From Newgate Gaol to the Royal Navy – Samuel Royal of Antigua
    • Olaudah Equiano
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative…’ – The Dutch Edition
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative’ – The German Edition
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative’: The Leeds Edition
      • Equiano – Journey’s End
  • Fragments (18th/19th Century)
  • The 19th Century
    • Trumpeter Thomas Crawford of the 4th Dragoons
    • “A Band of Brothers” – The Black Soldiers of the 20th Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1797-1818
    • Black soldiers in Kent Regiments between 1765 and 1834
    • Black Soldiers and Edinburgh c.1792-1848
    • Peter Bishop, 1792-1851: Soldier of the 69th Foot and Veteran of Waterloo
    • William Buckland (1786-1856), from Guadeloupe to ‘the Fighting Fifth’, Limerick and Liverpool
    • John Camden of Chelsea, c.1750-1824
    • The Last Black Drummer: John Charles of the 32nd Foot, 1808-1845
    • From Jamaica to Hampton Court Palace: Private John Fitzhenry of the 14th Dragoons
    • From St Domingo to Bedlam: Trumpeter Charles Girling of the 20th Light Dragoons
    • Trumpet-Major James Goodwin: A Black Hero of the Battle of Waterloo
    • From Poplar to New South Wales and back: Stephen Hannibal – Convict, Seaman and Servant
    • John Jackson of the 31st Regiment of Foot
    • Samuel Munday & Son
    • George Rose – An Exemplary Soldier, 73rd and 42nd Foot, 1809-1837
    • A Black Soldier in Scarlet – Private Thomas Wells, a Sri-Lankan Chelsea Pensioner c.1755-1812
    • “Over the hills and far away”: The Black soldiers of the 43rd Foot 1796-1826
    • The Black soldiers of the 18th Hussars, 1799-1821
    • A Black and Asian British Regiment: ‘The York Rangers‘ – “a Regiment of Lascars, Mulattoes, &c.” c.1803-1805
    • “Black Troop”: The Black soldiers of the 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars, 1815-1838
    • The Black Soldiers of the 21st Light Dragoons c.1799-1817
    • From Nova-Scotia to Liverpool, via the battlefields of the Napoleonic War: The travels and travails of Drummer George Wise of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
    • A “well conducted man”: Corporal Stephen (Estiphania) Pappin of St Domingo and the 39th (Dorsetshire) Foot, 1788-1845
    • Black sailors in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
      • Magnus Booth of HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar
      • Adam De Grey of St Kitts and the Royal Navy
      • Samuel Doyle of St Vincent and the Royal Navy
      • John Francois – A Black sailor at Trafalgar
      • Louis Le Roi and Jabin Remington: Two more black sailors at Trafalgar
      • Jacob Loring (c1780 to 1838) – A Black Able-Seaman at Trafalgar
      • Charles Phillips – A Black sailor at Trafalgar (c1784 to 1837)
      • Thomas Stanley (c1757 to 1847): A Black Veteran of Trafalgar
      • From Sail to Steam: John Addoo (1795-1855), an African in the Royal Navy
      • John Angel (c1777 to 1834) A black sailor in the Royal Navy
      • John Banner (1736-1803) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • John Ephraim of ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ (c1783 to 1831)
      • ‘John Johnson’ of Guadeloupe and Greenwich
      • Peter Kadett (1787-1854) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • William Cork – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • William Vulson (c1802/4 to 1878) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
    • Mary Ann Aguirra, a Londoner ‘of colour’, 1814-1878
    • Sarah Crook Morley: A “woman of colour” and status in Regency England
    • “With fury and violence” – Amelia Francis, a Black Woman in Regency England
    • Joseph Fergus: A Black Bandsman in the Coldstream Guards and later a publican in Westminster, 1793-1851
    • “Few men are better remembered” – ‘Black Geordie’: George Graham of Dalgig, Ayrshire
    • “A great favourite with both officers and men” – Richard Umhala, an African Prince in Victorian Bradford
    • John Turner: A Centenarian Black Cymbalist of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
    • “The Terror of the Service…” The Black Drummers of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
    • George Barton of Jamaica and Portsea
    • The Black Ratings of HMS Orpheus, 1863
    • The final resting place of Sarah Bonetta Forbes-Davies
    • A Foundling ‘of colour’ – Fanny Kenyon
    • Sarah Woodbine: A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain
    • Forgotten Stories: “Women of Colour” in Newgate Gaol, 1817-1882
    • Black or of colour inmates at Dorchester Prison, 1782 to 1901
    • Edward Albert (c.1830-1892), James Buchanan (c.1806-1886), and their families
    • Ophelia Powell – A Victorian music hall star and “Lady of Colour”
    • More Snippets of Welsh Black History – 1800 to 1899
  • The 20th Century
    • Forgotten History – World War One and beyond
      • An ill-fated voyage – the SS Verdala, March 1916
      • “A Very Gallant Man”: Lance-Corporal Richard Aiyadurai of the Royal Fusiliers
      • Amanda Aldridge (10th March 1866 to 9th March 1956)
      • Private Robert Bissessur, a “man of colour” in the Dorset Regiment in the First World War
      • Benjamin Bruce: A black Domestic/Steward in the Royal Navy 1899 to 1921
      • Samuel Adolphus Clarke of the Royal Navy
      • Antonio Da Costa: A Sapper from Trinidad at the Somme
      • “Our Boy Peter” – Private Peter De Silva: “Missing in Action at the Somme”
      • Kathleen Mary Easmon (Simango)
      • Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon
      • Edgar Jesse Forbes of the Royal Navy
      • Francis Owen Gittens: A soldier from Trinidad at the Somme
      • Julian Gogerly – A Sri Lankan in the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War
      • Bertram Green of the Royal Navy
      • George Alexander Bartholomew Green, a ‘man of colour’ in the Royal Navy from 1903 to 1925
      • “An admirable spirit”: Private Harold Jacotine of the Coldstream Guards
      • James Peter Kulatunga: A Cingalese soldier in the Border Regiment, 1917 to 1919
      • Gunner Frederick Lambert of the Royal Garrison Artillery
      • Abdul Latif – A Boy Soldier in the Highland Light Infantry during the First World War
      • Corporal Jacques M’Bondo
      • A Sri-Lankan in the “Die Hards” – Private Cyril Lorenz Mellonius, a Somme Veteran of the Middlesex Regiment
      • The Oldest Lion Trainer in the World – Joe Mitchell (1850-1940)
      • “The Soldier” – Walter Albert Moore
      • John Edward (‘Eddie’) Parris
      • “Faugh A Bella”: Private William Perera, a Sri Lankan in the Royal Irish Fusiliers during the First World War
      • Private Valleton Redman (c1894/97 to 1916)
      • George Reeves: An African serviceman in two World Wars
      • George “Bertie” Robinson, a Black Footman at Harewood House (an update)
        • Bertie Robinson – A Black Footman at Harewood House
      • James Slim – A Jamaican in the French Foreign Legion and the Coldstream Guards 1914-1915
      • Flight Sergeant Thomas Smith, a founding member of the Royal Air Force
      • Lost at Sea in 1914: William Edmund Smith, a Bermudan in the Royal Navy
      • John Albert Gordon Smyth
      • “Admired very much”: Cyril Stuart (1895-1915) an “Old Salopian”
      • William Tull – The forgotten brother?
      • Lionel Fitzherbert Turpin
      • A Cingalese machine gunner at the Somme – Sergeant Roy Van Twest
      • Private Huntley Hugh Lecesne a Jamaican in the Machine Gun Corps during WW1
      • The Vignale Brothers in World War One
      • Cyril Waite of the Royal Navy
      • “The backbone of the battalion” – Lewis Aubrey Walcott, Stoker 1st Class of the Royal Navy, 1906-1919
      • Charles Williams: A Mystery
    • Black Bajans in World War One
      • Percy Archer (British West Indies Regiment: 13829)
      • Clarence Bascom (British West Indies Regiment: 10906)
      • Wendell Valentyne Byer (British West Indies Regiment: 10905)
      • Clarence Gittens (British West Indies Regiment: 11174)
      • Fitz Grandison (British West Indies Regiment: 15373)
      • Laurie Greaves (British West Indies Regiment: 15043)
      • David Roachford (British West Indies Regiment: 11578)
      • Fitz Griffith (British West Indies Regiment: 15048)
      • Richard Lopez (British West Indies Regiment: 15120)
      • The Elusive Siebert Raper (British West Indies Regiment: 5635)
      • Martin Luther Taitt (British West Indies Regiment: 740)
      • Cecil Yard (Royal Engineers, Pioneer Corps: 199705)
  • World War 2 and beyond
    • A Different Windrush Experience
    • More passengers than the Windrush – The Story of the SS Jamaica Producer
    • Alford Dalrymple Gardner:  RAF recruit and Windrush Pioneer
    • Cecil Holness and Clara Brown / Jarrett
    • Charles Austin Dawkins
    • Edna Chavannes: A black nurse in the NHS 1951 to 1996
    • Families on the Windrush
    • Horace William Halliburton: A hero of the Causeway Green ‘riots’
    • McDonald Bailey – Windrush passenger and father of an Olympic hero
    • Mona Baptiste
    • Nadia Cattouse
    • Women of colour in the ATS and WAAF in the early years of World War 2
    • Caribbean Women in the ATS from mid-1943 onwards
    • Ronald Fitzherbert Hall – ‘Navigator here’
    • The Forgotten 4,000: West Indian Airmen at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey
    • What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope?
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  • Home
  • A-Z Index
  • Our Books
  • News
  • The 18th Century
    • Roots Entwined: Inter-racial families in Yorkshire
    • Discovering Black History in Wales – The Early Days
    • Charlotte Gardiner and Lucy Johnson: Black Women and the Gordon Riots of June 1780
    • Henry McGilchrist – Kettle Drummer of the 3rd (King’s Own) Dragoons
    • From Newgate Gaol to the Royal Navy – Samuel Royal of Antigua
    • Olaudah Equiano
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative…’ – The Dutch Edition
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative’ – The German Edition
      • Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative’: The Leeds Edition
      • Equiano – Journey’s End
  • Fragments (18th/19th Century)
  • The 19th Century
    • Trumpeter Thomas Crawford of the 4th Dragoons
    • “A Band of Brothers” – The Black Soldiers of the 20th Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1797-1818
    • Black soldiers in Kent Regiments between 1765 and 1834
    • Black Soldiers and Edinburgh c.1792-1848
    • Peter Bishop, 1792-1851: Soldier of the 69th Foot and Veteran of Waterloo
    • William Buckland (1786-1856), from Guadeloupe to ‘the Fighting Fifth’, Limerick and Liverpool
    • John Camden of Chelsea, c.1750-1824
    • The Last Black Drummer: John Charles of the 32nd Foot, 1808-1845
    • From Jamaica to Hampton Court Palace: Private John Fitzhenry of the 14th Dragoons
    • From St Domingo to Bedlam: Trumpeter Charles Girling of the 20th Light Dragoons
    • Trumpet-Major James Goodwin: A Black Hero of the Battle of Waterloo
    • From Poplar to New South Wales and back: Stephen Hannibal – Convict, Seaman and Servant
    • John Jackson of the 31st Regiment of Foot
    • Samuel Munday & Son
    • George Rose – An Exemplary Soldier, 73rd and 42nd Foot, 1809-1837
    • A Black Soldier in Scarlet – Private Thomas Wells, a Sri-Lankan Chelsea Pensioner c.1755-1812
    • “Over the hills and far away”: The Black soldiers of the 43rd Foot 1796-1826
    • The Black soldiers of the 18th Hussars, 1799-1821
    • A Black and Asian British Regiment: ‘The York Rangers‘ – “a Regiment of Lascars, Mulattoes, &c.” c.1803-1805
    • “Black Troop”: The Black soldiers of the 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars, 1815-1838
    • The Black Soldiers of the 21st Light Dragoons c.1799-1817
    • From Nova-Scotia to Liverpool, via the battlefields of the Napoleonic War: The travels and travails of Drummer George Wise of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
    • A “well conducted man”: Corporal Stephen (Estiphania) Pappin of St Domingo and the 39th (Dorsetshire) Foot, 1788-1845
    • Black sailors in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
      • Magnus Booth of HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar
      • Adam De Grey of St Kitts and the Royal Navy
      • Samuel Doyle of St Vincent and the Royal Navy
      • John Francois – A Black sailor at Trafalgar
      • Louis Le Roi and Jabin Remington: Two more black sailors at Trafalgar
      • Jacob Loring (c1780 to 1838) – A Black Able-Seaman at Trafalgar
      • Charles Phillips – A Black sailor at Trafalgar (c1784 to 1837)
      • Thomas Stanley (c1757 to 1847): A Black Veteran of Trafalgar
      • From Sail to Steam: John Addoo (1795-1855), an African in the Royal Navy
      • John Angel (c1777 to 1834) A black sailor in the Royal Navy
      • John Banner (1736-1803) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • John Ephraim of ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ (c1783 to 1831)
      • ‘John Johnson’ of Guadeloupe and Greenwich
      • Peter Kadett (1787-1854) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • William Cork – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
      • William Vulson (c1802/4 to 1878) – A Black Sailor in the Royal Navy
    • Mary Ann Aguirra, a Londoner ‘of colour’, 1814-1878
    • Sarah Crook Morley: A “woman of colour” and status in Regency England
    • “With fury and violence” – Amelia Francis, a Black Woman in Regency England
    • Joseph Fergus: A Black Bandsman in the Coldstream Guards and later a publican in Westminster, 1793-1851
    • “Few men are better remembered” – ‘Black Geordie’: George Graham of Dalgig, Ayrshire
    • “A great favourite with both officers and men” – Richard Umhala, an African Prince in Victorian Bradford
    • John Turner: A Centenarian Black Cymbalist of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
    • “The Terror of the Service…” The Black Drummers of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
    • George Barton of Jamaica and Portsea
    • The Black Ratings of HMS Orpheus, 1863
    • The final resting place of Sarah Bonetta Forbes-Davies
    • A Foundling ‘of colour’ – Fanny Kenyon
    • Sarah Woodbine: A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain
    • Forgotten Stories: “Women of Colour” in Newgate Gaol, 1817-1882
    • Black or of colour inmates at Dorchester Prison, 1782 to 1901
    • Edward Albert (c.1830-1892), James Buchanan (c.1806-1886), and their families
    • Ophelia Powell – A Victorian music hall star and “Lady of Colour”
    • More Snippets of Welsh Black History – 1800 to 1899
  • The 20th Century
    • Forgotten History – World War One and beyond
      • An ill-fated voyage – the SS Verdala, March 1916
      • “A Very Gallant Man”: Lance-Corporal Richard Aiyadurai of the Royal Fusiliers
      • Amanda Aldridge (10th March 1866 to 9th March 1956)
      • Private Robert Bissessur, a “man of colour” in the Dorset Regiment in the First World War
      • Benjamin Bruce: A black Domestic/Steward in the Royal Navy 1899 to 1921
      • Samuel Adolphus Clarke of the Royal Navy
      • Antonio Da Costa: A Sapper from Trinidad at the Somme
      • “Our Boy Peter” – Private Peter De Silva: “Missing in Action at the Somme”
      • Kathleen Mary Easmon (Simango)
      • Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon
      • Edgar Jesse Forbes of the Royal Navy
      • Francis Owen Gittens: A soldier from Trinidad at the Somme
      • Julian Gogerly – A Sri Lankan in the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War
      • Bertram Green of the Royal Navy
      • George Alexander Bartholomew Green, a ‘man of colour’ in the Royal Navy from 1903 to 1925
      • “An admirable spirit”: Private Harold Jacotine of the Coldstream Guards
      • James Peter Kulatunga: A Cingalese soldier in the Border Regiment, 1917 to 1919
      • Gunner Frederick Lambert of the Royal Garrison Artillery
      • Abdul Latif – A Boy Soldier in the Highland Light Infantry during the First World War
      • Corporal Jacques M’Bondo
      • A Sri-Lankan in the “Die Hards” – Private Cyril Lorenz Mellonius, a Somme Veteran of the Middlesex Regiment
      • The Oldest Lion Trainer in the World – Joe Mitchell (1850-1940)
      • “The Soldier” – Walter Albert Moore
      • John Edward (‘Eddie’) Parris
      • “Faugh A Bella”: Private William Perera, a Sri Lankan in the Royal Irish Fusiliers during the First World War
      • Private Valleton Redman (c1894/97 to 1916)
      • George Reeves: An African serviceman in two World Wars
      • George “Bertie” Robinson, a Black Footman at Harewood House (an update)
        • Bertie Robinson – A Black Footman at Harewood House
      • James Slim – A Jamaican in the French Foreign Legion and the Coldstream Guards 1914-1915
      • Flight Sergeant Thomas Smith, a founding member of the Royal Air Force
      • Lost at Sea in 1914: William Edmund Smith, a Bermudan in the Royal Navy
      • John Albert Gordon Smyth
      • “Admired very much”: Cyril Stuart (1895-1915) an “Old Salopian”
      • William Tull – The forgotten brother?
      • Lionel Fitzherbert Turpin
      • A Cingalese machine gunner at the Somme – Sergeant Roy Van Twest
      • Private Huntley Hugh Lecesne a Jamaican in the Machine Gun Corps during WW1
      • The Vignale Brothers in World War One
      • Cyril Waite of the Royal Navy
      • “The backbone of the battalion” – Lewis Aubrey Walcott, Stoker 1st Class of the Royal Navy, 1906-1919
      • Charles Williams: A Mystery
    • Black Bajans in World War One
      • Percy Archer (British West Indies Regiment: 13829)
      • Clarence Bascom (British West Indies Regiment: 10906)
      • Wendell Valentyne Byer (British West Indies Regiment: 10905)
      • Clarence Gittens (British West Indies Regiment: 11174)
      • Fitz Grandison (British West Indies Regiment: 15373)
      • Laurie Greaves (British West Indies Regiment: 15043)
      • David Roachford (British West Indies Regiment: 11578)
      • Fitz Griffith (British West Indies Regiment: 15048)
      • Richard Lopez (British West Indies Regiment: 15120)
      • The Elusive Siebert Raper (British West Indies Regiment: 5635)
      • Martin Luther Taitt (British West Indies Regiment: 740)
      • Cecil Yard (Royal Engineers, Pioneer Corps: 199705)
  • World War 2 and beyond
    • A Different Windrush Experience
    • More passengers than the Windrush – The Story of the SS Jamaica Producer
    • Alford Dalrymple Gardner:  RAF recruit and Windrush Pioneer
    • Cecil Holness and Clara Brown / Jarrett
    • Charles Austin Dawkins
    • Edna Chavannes: A black nurse in the NHS 1951 to 1996
    • Families on the Windrush
    • Horace William Halliburton: A hero of the Causeway Green ‘riots’
    • McDonald Bailey – Windrush passenger and father of an Olympic hero
    • Mona Baptiste
    • Nadia Cattouse
    • Women of colour in the ATS and WAAF in the early years of World War 2
    • Caribbean Women in the ATS from mid-1943 onwards
    • Ronald Fitzherbert Hall – ‘Navigator here’
    • The Forgotten 4,000: West Indian Airmen at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey
    • What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope?
  • Contact
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