sebastienne

There's a 'usual cast' of pre-1945 black people in Britain - Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Mary Seacole, Francis Barber. It would be good to find some more. LGBT people tend to be aristocratic - Lord Hervey - or royal (George I's brother Ernest Augustus). What about those outside the elite? This is an interesting project...