About

The Black Presence in Britain Website

The Black Presence or the Black Presence in Britain is a history website about black British history.

The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about the contribution of Black people to British history to be found on the Internet.

I was studying politics at the time, the course included a history module called;
“The Black Presence in Britain 1550-present day”.

Whilst doing my research, I found a serious lack of Black British info online. So, I decided to build a site where this information could be documented.

The site has had many incarnations since then. I built the first version of it using Netscape Composer, later moving on to Dreamweaver, Drupal and then WordPress.

The site has lots of information and articles to get people started in their understanding of the history and culture of Black/African people over the centuries.

Welcome to the site, thank you for reading and supporting this site if you are an old-timer.

From my point of view, the site can grow exponentially.  There is no end to Black British History, it’s being written every day.

However, I’m a big believer in the notion of “You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been”.

So there’s still a massive need for contributors to come and write articles on this site.  Hopefully, they will reveal the histories of their families and other Black trailblazers.