Black British

Black British are people who live in the United Kingdom but whose families are originally from Africa.

The 2001 UK census^[1] says there were 1.2 million Black British people. They were 2.33% of the population of the England and Wales. In the 2021 census 4% of people said they were Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African. That was 2.4 million people in England and Wales.^[2]

In the past, Black British used to mean any immigrant who was not English, like British Asians, but people say that it was because of racism in England at that time.

Black British Media

Extract from the Westminster Tournament Roll almost certainly showing John Blanke, the only figure wearing a brown turban latticed with yellow.
A 1651 painting of Scottish noblewoman Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale with her black servant
William Hogarth's engraving Four Times of the Day: Noon (1738) shows a black London resident (on the left).
An 18th-century painting of the Irish politician Edward Southwell Jr. and his family pictured with their black child servant
Composer and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho was the first black person of African origins to vote in parliamentary elections and became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade.
Pablo Fanque, celebrated circus owner and performer in Victorian Britain.
Portrait of the London-born boxer James Wharton, 1839.
Sara Forbes Bonetta, West African princess and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. Orphaned in intertribal warfare, given as a "gift" to Queen Victoria.
Walter Tull, professional footballer and mixed-heritage British Army officer, pictured with fellow officers.