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324 : A commercial venture, London 1904

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323 : Taylor Gordon and other American singers

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321 : West Indian war graves in Plymouth 1916-1919

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320 : Appearing at London’s police court, September 1895

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321 : West Indian war graves in Plymouth 1916-1919

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320 : Appearing at London’s police court, September 1895

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315 : Seeking work as a servant 1869-1875

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000: Homepage
001: “In Dahomey”, London – 1903
002: A letter from the League of Coloured Peoples, 1942
003: Abomah “the African Giantess”
004: Alain Locke Rhodes Scholar, Oxford 1907-1910 # 1
005: Amy Barbour-James & the League of Coloured Peoples 1942
006: Balmer’s “Kaffir Boys” in Britain
007: British West Indies Regiment graves Sussex 1916
008: Carrie, Gertrude and Grace Grenfell: children of missionaries in the Congo
009: Colwyn Bay’s African Institute: 1889-1912
010: Dr James Samuel Risien Russell (1863-1939)
011: Dr John Alcindor (1873-1924)
012: Duse Mohamed, actor, editor, author: London 1912
013: Edmund T. Jenkins of the Royal Academy of Music
014: Gwendolen (Avril) Coleridge-Taylor 1924
015: Joe Deniz, Cardiff-born jazz guitarist 1913-1994
016: John Barbour-James (1867-1954) # 1
017: John Barbour-James (1867-1954) # 2
018: Ras Prince Monolulu, racing tipster 1881-1965
019: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Composer
020: Sarah Forbes Bonetta ca 1851 and Tom Highflyer, 1870
021: Sir Samuel Lewis (1843-1903)
022: Six Congo pygmies in Britain 1905-1907
023: Ted Vass and a Zeppelin raid, London 1915
024: The German raider “Emden” and Jamaica in World War One
025: The death of Dr John Alcindor, 1924
026: Joseph Jackson Fuller of Jamaica, Africa and England
027: The Jamaican choir in Britain 1906-1908
028: The Johnsons of Bournemouth 1894-1928
029: The London family of William Hoffman(n) 1867-1941
030: Three memorials to the 1914-1918 war in Africa
031: Working with Paul Robeson in “Sanders of the River” 1934
032: Zambians in Britain, 1902
033: Leslie Thompson “Swing from a Small Island”
034: Dr J. J. Brown of Hackney (1882-1953)
035: An American band in London, 1914
036: Exhibiting Africa in imperial capitals
037: Mr Sargent of Thurston’s fair, 1906
038: Uncle Tom and the Chinese laundryman
039: Benjamin Curzerpursong, playing Uncle Tom: 1903
040: A black childhood in Wigan, 1906-1920
041: A London Colour Bar, 1903
042: Jack Johnson, boxing champion in Britain 1911
043: Eddie Manning “the dope king” of 1920s London
044: “Black Joe”, a novel from 1931
045: Borwick’s Baking Powder advertised 1890s
046: Four West Africans in Keston, Kent, 1873
047: Black clergyman in Oxfordshire, 1907
048: George W. Christian, Liverpool merchant in Africa
049: Eugene McAdoo’s jubilee trio in Britain
050: Paul Laurence Dunbar in England
051: The African President’s widow in London
052: Dr Arthur Bennett and “Umckaloabo”, 1914-1915
053: Black London, 1895
054: Exhibits or entertainers? Some black children in Britain 1870s-1910s
055: Black London, 1890
056: Black London, 1874-1875
057: Black London, 1882
058: Sussex graves of two British imperialists
059: A black family in rural Surrey in the 1850s
060: Black London, 1880
061: Black Britain, 1869
062: Black Britain, 1870
063: Moses Wallace, the African Prince, 1869
064: The Black Preacher, 1885-1886
065: The sinking of the “Falaba”, March 1915
066: Lieutenant Reginald Collins of Jamaica
067: “Men of Colour” and London’s public transport, 1900-1932
068: Roland Hayes in London 1920-1921
069: Black Britain, March-May 1897
070: A ‘Jazz’ Enigma, 1898
071: A postcard of a “Nobody” – Charles Pooter?
072: S. Morgan Smith, the black actor 1832-1882
073: Somalis in Bradford, 1904
074: Uncle Tom’s Cabin shows
075: Horace Weston, 1825-1890
076: Black Britain, 1858
077: Black Britain, 1859
078: Charles Garnett of the League of Universal Brotherhood
079: Seaman John Brown of HMS Cossack, 1855
080: Chang the Chinese giant, died Bournemouth 1893
081: Dr William Peter Powell, 1834-1916
082: ‘Coloured’ actors and actresses in Victorian London
083: Coleridge-Taylor – new biographies, 2011 and 2012
084: Black animal trainers in late 19th century Britain
085: The Jubilee Singers of Wilmington, North Carolina
086: Sergeant William Dobson of the 72nd Highlanders
087: The Zulu, the Bishop and the dregs of Worcester, 1851
088: Thomas Allen, hanged in Swansea, April 1889
089: The Great Hindu Snake Charmer, 1879-1885
090: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the church
091: “Coloured men sentenced to death” 1899-1905
092: Living souvenirs from 19th century Africa
093: Black women in Britain 1850-1897
094: Charles Dickens, Fagin and Henry Murphy, 1834
095: A German view of imperialism in Africa, 1904
096: An African diplomat in London, 1905
097: John Mandombi, London 1890
098: Amazon Warriors from Dahomey, 1893
099: African Heirs, 1887-1892
100: Crossing sweepers in 19th century England
101: Blacks and the Salvation Army in England, 1880-1892
102: The Vengeance of Annie Gross, 1912
103: Maharajah Duleep Singh 1838-1893, a tragedy
104: John Sayers Orr, street preacher 1854-1855
105: ‘Bogus coloured choristers’, jubilee singers, and a thief: 1890
106: African Americans in Britain 1850-1866
107: John Anderson, “so famous a year or two ago” (1862)
108: “Mutiny of Blacks in the Mersey”, 1857
109: Paul Robeson and Britain’s secret service 1933-1950s
110: Joseph Denny: in, out and in prison 1873-1895
111: The False Pretences of Alfred Wood, 1852-1853
112: Somewhat Unexpected: Four Individuals in England in 1864
113: Incidents in Britain in 1898
114: ‘Outsiders’ inside. Some 19th century prisoners with mental health problems
115: “Oh you nasty Zulu” – “Zulus” in Victorian Britain
116: Indian oculists, 1892-1893
117: Black Edwardians in Lambeth
118: African Americans in mid-Victorian Britain
119: American visitors and Coleridge-Taylor
120: Black Swans and Black Nightingales. 19th Century black prima donnas in Britain
121: A Street in South London, 1875
122: African-descent soldiers in British regiments in 1916-1918
123: Chelsea Barracks, London, June 1897
124: Isaac Dickerson, US Evangelist in 1890s London
125: Henry F. Downing, African American author in London 1895-1917
126: Kwamina Tandoh/Amoah III, Ghanaian leader in early 20th century Britain
127: Alain Locke at Oxford 1907-1910 # 2
128: A prize fight in rural Suffolk, June 1856
129: the Countee family of Leicester and Barnsley
130: Black temperance campaigners in late Victorian Britain
131: Ann Styles, Jamaican servant in London 1840-1903
132: Three 19th century black gardeners in England
133: John Brown and John Glasgow, 1855
134: Ellen and William Craft. A fresh examination
135: James Johnson of North Carolina & Oldham 1847-1914
136: Samuel Hodge, V.C. (1840-1868)
137: Minstrel shows in Britain
138: Lewis Charlton and the economics of Slave Narratives
139: Beach entertainers: Morecambe, Lancs., 1910s
140 : ‘Eph’ Thompson the elephant trainer, 1859-1909
141 : H. E. Lewis, “the Negro Mesmerist” 1850-1857
142: Pete Hampton, American Entertainer 1871-1916
143 : Mattie Lawrence. Jubilee Singer in England 1890-1907
144 : A. B. C. Merriman-Labor 1877-1919, lawyer and author
145 : On the Margins, 1841-1872
146: Victorian reports of crime as a source on minorities
147: Henry ‘Box’ Brown, escaped slave turned showman
148: An Oxfordshire village, 1864
149: Zilpha Elaw (c 1790-1873), American preacher
150: Wilson Armistead of Leeds (1819-1868)
151: Harriet Jacobs in England, 1845
152: Sarah Parker Remond (1824-1894), British citizen
153: James Carmichael Smith civil servant & author 1852-1919
154: Sidney Bechet in London 1919-1922
155: George Watteau: the African gardener of Chislehurst
156: Agnes Foster, Jamaican Salvationist 1823-1910
157 : Upper Norwood’s blind school, 1890s-1910s
158: Martha Ricks visits Queen Victoria, 1892
159: The English ‘Hottentot Venus’, 1840
160: A South Carolina slave in Britain, 1859-ca 1865
161 : Andrew Bogle 1802-1877. Jamaican in Britain & Australia
162 : ‘Mysterious Death in the East of London”, 1876
163 : Reuben Nixon the incorrigible liar, 1853-1858
164 : ‘Africans in Britain and the late Victorian historical record’
165 : ‘Black Victorian Britain’. Paper presented in Wandsworth October 2013
166 : Arthur Edgar Massey (1870-1935?), poet and evangelist
167 : ‘Blind Tom’ the musical phenomenon in Britain 1866-1867
168 : West Country Blacks in Victorian Times
169 : A Black Gay Hustler, London 1838
170 : Amusing the children?
171 : A ‘black’ presence in Victorian English folk culture
172 : The Jubilee Singers as a financial venture – 1886-1889
173 : Robert Branford, 1817-1869 : London police superintendent.
174 : Frederick Douglass’s first tour of the British Isles 1845-1847
175 : Petty Officer William Brown, 1832-1885
176 : Kamal Chunchie and the Coloured Men’s Institute, London 1920s and 1930s
177 : Isaac William Cisco (1848-1905) of North Carolina and Lancashire
178 : Two Chinese doctors in London: James Hochee (1828-1896) and Ping Win Lam (1893-1981)
179 : ‘The Hangman’s Record’ as a source, 1857-1920
180 : A black soldier in Dublin, 1916
181 : London accommodation for ‘poor men and women of colour’ 1834
182 : Joseph Jenkins or Selim Aga, an African Prince – London 1850s
183 : An English folksong and its black contributor, 1880s
184 : Robert Cropp, entertainer 1872-1934
185 : The ‘missing’ years of Dr Alcindor, 1901-1905
186 : Americans experience London racism, 1903?
187 : The London homes of Coleridge-Taylor
188 : Edward T. Nelson (1874?-1940), Lancashire lawyer
189: Three of the Lowly People of the 1820s by John Dempsey
190 : Dr J Acman Holland of London, 1938
191 : British newspapers, blacks and crime 1900-1927
192 : John Isham’s ‘Oriental America’ show 1897-1898
193 : The family of Jacob Christian 1870s-1950s
194 : Not allowed in the school sports team, London ca 1920
195 : Was Coleridge-Taylor a pauper when he died in 1912?
196 : The Rodgers family of south Devon 1880s-1950s
197 : Featured in Victorian Fiction: ‘The Amber Beads’ of 1898
198 : William G. Allen, American refugee teacher (c. 1826-1888)
199 : Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), American sculptor in England.
200 : Mr Etter Stanley, the architect
201 : Street entertainers in Victorian times
202 : African connections – plaques and memorials in London
203 : George Rose, Jamaican at the battle of Waterloo, 1815
204 : Pixley Seme’s black associates, England 1909
205 : Sol Plaatje in Britain, 1914 – 1923
206 : ‘Black Jack’ painted by William Parrott (1813-1869)
207 : Black performers in Britain’s Human Zoos
208 : Names and Faces – Black portraits. Reassessing the evidence
209 : An African in a Norfolk coastal village, 1901
210 : Lulu Coote (1890-1964), African nurse in Britain
211 : Jack the Ripper – a Black connection
212 : an African’s grave in Taunton, 1890
213 : Attempts to help young blacks 1890-1892
214 : Life at sea in the 1850s – black sailors on American ships
215 : At Odds with the Legal System 1892, 1895
216 : London views of the West African slave trade in the 1840s
217 : Somalis in London in 1895
218 : Badly treated black infantrymen in the Middlesex Regiment, 1916
219 : ‘We have as much right to walk in the streets as you have’ – 1857
220 : What happened to these Victorian individuals?
221 : African princes in Victorian Britain
222 : Miss Servano the Yoruba interpreter, London 1859
223 : South African military graves from 1917-1918 in England
224 : The Emidy family of Cornwall
225 : Richard Esdale of Bristol, 1852
226 : Some Chinese people in Victorian Britain
227 : Alex Furguson and other waifs
228 : The Black Gardener of Newcastle, 1888
229 : Showman and theatre manager, London 1850
230 : Building your Library # 1
231 : Building your Library # 2
232 : Building your Library # 3
233 : Building your Library # 4
234 : Building your Library # 5
236 : Building your Library # 6
237 : Building your Library # 7
238 : Building your Library # 8
239 : Building your Library # 9
240 : Building your Library # 10
241 : Building your Library # 11
242 : Building your Library # 12
243 : Building your Library # 13
244 : The Bohee Brothers in 1887-1891.
245 : Building your Library # 14
246 : Building your Library # 15
247 : Building your Library # 16
248 : Boxing and the ‘Colour Question’, 1911
249 : ‘West Indian’ nannies in Britain
250: Black Sailors in Dartmoor, 1814-1815
251: A Victorian middle-class family: the Audains
252 : Participating in English Social Life in Victorian Times
253 : A Female Entertainer – Josephine Morcashani
254: Sniper Charles Bolton, 1944
255 : Some trials at the Old Bailey, 1868-1897
256 : Edgar Knight, the Abyssinian herbalist of Barnsley, 1897-1930
257: A Variety of Occupations – 1880s
258 : Percy Clifford of the Imperial Yeomanry, 1883-1914
259: George Samuel Bailey alias Dr F. J. B. Ahmadia, 1920
260 : James Peters (1879-1954) international sportsman
261 : African students in Chatham, Kent, in Victorian times
262 : Charles Cornell (1863-1930) Portsmouth entertainer
263 : The Delroys on Stage, 1910-1916
264 : In Search of Dr Albert Kagwa
265 : Dorothy Callender – piano recitalist of the 1920s and 1930s
266 : Herbalists in Britain
267 : Some petty crimes in late Victorian times
268 : Where did they live?
269 : ‘Lady and Negro Girl’: Charge of Cruelty October 1908
270 : Two black American soldiers, May 1944
271 : Dr Guy Errington Kerr (1905-1984), doctor and musician
272 : James Hutton Brew (1844-1915) of Ghana and London
273 : Murderers, Victims and Contemporary Reports – part 1
274 : Murderers, Victims and Contemporary Reports – part 2
275: ‘ISOLATED’ APPEARANCES.
276: Some blacks in Devon, 1718-1722
277: The Avery sisters, London, 1857
278: “Uncle Tom in England” published in 1852
279 : Racism at the London Hospital in the 1910s
280 : Zulus on the streets of London, 1884
281 : Cigarette cards provide information
282 : James Samuel Clarke (1921-2006)
283 : New Orleans to London, Varies Amiel Davies, soldier and actor (1864-1933)
284 : Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The children born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War
285 : Chief Kawbawgam, hoax Native American Singer (1881-1923)
286 : DAN KILDARE, MUSICIAN (1879-1920)
287 : “A BRITISH ‘DARKEY’”, 1927
288 : EARNING A LIVING, 1920S
289 : SUNDERLAND WORKHOUSE, DECEMBER 1902.
290 : THE PLAY PORGY IN LONDON IN 1929.
291 : Rufus Fennell – actor and Pan-Africanist (1887-1974)
292 : George Kean, criminal 1858
293 : Black Doctors in the 1900s
294 : “Cavalcade” and Jack London, 1931
295 : Black people in Britain’s 1880s newspapers
296 : Andrew Drayton of Nottingham (ca 1847-1914)
297 : Henry Allen, an “artful and idle fellow”, 1870
298 : The African Doctor’s Daughter (1876-1924)
299 : VICTOR BARBOUR-JAMES (1909-1938), SINGER
300 : PROFESSOR ZODIAC, 1911-1919 into 1934
301 : “Wife’s Infatuation for Coloured Singer” – 1934
302 : BRITAIN’S “COLOUR BAR” 1903-1915
303 : Colour bar in London hotels, 1929
304 : “A frequent guest at garden parties” – Jacob Wainwright, 1874
305 : A Failed Deputation? London 1882
306 : South Carolina entertainers and others in Europe 1890 – 1914
307 : New book – “Black Lives in Britain 1830-1940, a Survey”
308 : Coloured juryman, 1892
309 : Black Doctors
310 : Who was Thomas Brown (fl. 1903)?
311 : Frank Nelson of the King’s Liverpool Regiment, 1915
312 : Two Black Canadians in Britain and Ireland in the 1880s
313 : Sergeant Simms’s Black Boys 1896-1897
314 : Theatrical job offers, December 1911
315 : Seeking work as a servant 1869-1875
316 : “imported negro artists” unwelcome, London 1923
317 : A miscellany from 1907
318 : Who was Miss Steele, Dublin 1891?
319 : Lena Fredericka Whitman (1874-1920)
320 : Appearing at London’s police court, September 1895
321 : West Indian war graves in Plymouth 1916-1919
322 : London, midsummer 1931
323 : Taylor Gordon and other American singers
324 : A commercial venture, London 1904
325 : Edward Nelson and the murder trial, 1910
326 : Black involvement in a Lancashire skimmington, 1897
327 : Mrs Ada Wright in Britain, 1932
328 : Richard Msimang of Somerset, 1884-1933

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