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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 (18
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The 19th Century
Black Soldiers and Edinburgh c.1792-1848
Black soldiers in Kent Regiments between 1765 and 1834
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
The Black Soldiers of the 21
st
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 29
th
(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
“With fury and violence” – Amelia Francis, a Black Woman in Regency England
Joseph Fergus: An Antiguan 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 9
th
(East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
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
Edward Albert (c.1830-1892), James Buchanan (c.1806-1886), and their families
Ophelia Powell – A Victorian music hall star and “Lady of Colour”
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
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: 704)
Cecil Yard (Royal Engineers, Pioneer Corps: 199705)
The Windrush Generation
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
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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