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Best of 2013: People of Color in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland

John Blanke, Black British Trumpeter of Henry VII and Henry VIII

Ira Aldridge, Expatriate Actor and Othello Extraordinaire

The Postillion of Erddig Hall

Oroonoko, Protagonist of One of the Earliest British Novels

Unnamed Servant of Elizabeth Murray

Dido Elizabeth Belle, Scottish Aristocrat

Jack Black of Ystumllyn, Wales

Companion of George Gage, Diplomat

Paul Cuffee, Shipowner and Abolitionist

Ghanian Princes as Exchange Students in London

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, A Man of Learning in London

Sir Morien, Black Knight of the Round Table

Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland

A Middle-Class Black British Woman

John Moore of York and the Black Freedman of the Tudor Era

Black and South Asian Men of the 19th Century British Navy

Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Composer

Roman Deserters at Hadrian’s Wall

Afro-Scottish Attendant of the Princess of Zanzibar

John Hawkins, Freedman and Trader of Plymouth

John Archer, Mayor of Battersea, South London

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, Musical Prodigy

Fanny Eaton, Victorian Muse and Model

The Black Court of King James IV of Scotland

Elizabeth I and Black British Scapegoats

A Young Stowaway

Wilson of America, Expatriate Sailor

Olaudah Equiano, British Abolitionist and Author, Merchant, and Explorer

Interactive Map of Black Victorians in London

Leonora Casey Carr and Five Girls from Antigua

Black History Walks in London

Further Reading on British People of Color:

• Edwards, Paul, and James Walvin.  “Africans in Britain, 1500-1800.“ The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays. Edited by Martin L. Kilson and Robert I. Rotberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976: 173-204.
• Dabydeen, David, ed.  The Black Presence in English Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985.
• Africans and Asians: Historiography and the Long View of Global Interaction Maghan Keita. From: Journal of World History  Volume 16, Number 1, March 2005
  pp. 1-30
• The Mabinogion.  Translated with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. London: Dent, 1957.
• The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art. Michael Sullivan, University of California Press, 1997.
• Morien.  Translated from the Medieval Dutch by Jessie L. Weston. London: Nutt, 1901.
• Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. edited by Thomas Foster Earle, K. J. P. Lowe. Cambridge University Press
• Africans in Britain. edited by David Killingray. Routledge University, 2012.
• Shakespeare and Race. Catherine M.S. Alexander and Stanley Wells. University of Cambridge Press, 2000. (link to sample)
• Courtiers and Christians: The First Japanese Emissaries to Europe Judith C. Brown. Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 872-906 Published by: The University of Chicago Press.
• Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England. James Schultz. Quest January 2002, Vol 5 Issue 1.