Tag: Suffolk

  • What happened to the British children born to black GIs? BBC News 2022-01-29 Eldridge says he would have loved to have met his father MARTIN GILES/BBC Eighty years ago, US soldiers began arriving in the UK to help in the fight against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In a small sleepy village in Suffolk, life was about…

  • Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.   The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…