Black Edwardians

Black Edwardians reveals the presence of Black people in all walks of life across the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era. This hitherto undiscovered Black presence challenges conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history. Historians of British society have largely ignored this most visible of minorities, and commentators on racism have been silent on the period. Green uses contemporary newspapers, books and memoirs of the era (photographic evidence), archive documentation, the lively recollections of veterans (located by him in the 1980s), their family papers and comments of younger family associates. His work challenges our ideas of the recent past.