I am dedicating this page to the memory of my mother, Alma Stephenson Dever (1907-2010), whose photo appears above, for introducing to me, as a small child, her passion for the history of Great Britain. She was before her time in recognizing that the United Kingdom was populated by a mixture of many peoples from various backgrounds, each contributing their strengths to its history and culture. It is in that spirit that I welcome the opportunity to sponsor a page on BlackPast.org which features individuals of African ancestry in the long history of Great Britain. – Catherine Dever Foster, June 8, 2014
Diane Abbott
Ira Aldridge
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Paul Yaw Boateng
Sarah Forbes Bonetta
George Bridgetower
Idris Elba
Ernest N. Ezeajughi
Justin Soni Fashanu
Bernie Grant
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Constantine Learie
Thomas Molyneux
Olive Elaine Morris
George Padmore
John Perkins
Bill Richmond
The Royal African Company
Ignatius Sancho
Mary Jane Seacole
Bishop John Sentamu
Zadie Smith
John Henry Smythe
James Sommersett
John Taylor
Nathaniel Wells
Francis Williams
Benjamin Zephaniah
- Africans in Britain: Dr. Miranda Kaufmann’s History Blog
- B.C.A. (Black Cultural Archives)
- Black Africans in Renaissance Europe: Blog of Michael Ohajuru
- Black and Asian Londoners’ Database, London Metropolitan Archives
- Black and Asian people in Great Britain, Manuscripts Section, Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section
- Black History 4 Schools
- Black History Month in Great Britain
- Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850 The National Archives, Exhibitions and Learning Online
- Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Great Britain (British National Archives)
- Celebrating the Black Presence in Westminster 1500-2000, Westminster City Council
- English Heritage: Black Lives in England
- Friends of Devon’s Archives Black History Project references, Friends of Devon’s Archives
- Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
- Jeffrey Green’s Page: Documentation, images, and details that generally relate to the activities of black people in Britain
- Legacies of British Slave-ownership project Database
- Northamptonshire Black History Project, Northamptonshire Black History Association
- The Black and Asian Studies Association of Great Britain
- The Black Cultural Archives of Great Britain
- The Black Presence in Britain
- The Black Presence in Britain-Black British History
- The British Library Online Gallery:Black Europeans
- The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Slavery and Abolitionism Hub (also with material on Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art
- Voyages: The Image of Black
- Black History Walks (Tony Walker)
- International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
- National Portrait Gallery: Abolition Trail, researched and written by Dr Caroline Bressey
- The Equiano Centre (UCL)
- The Image of the Black in Western Art