{"id":25944,"date":"2012-10-12T03:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25944"},"modified":"2012-10-12T03:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:41:45","slug":"britains-first-black-community-in-elizabethan-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25944","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC News Magazine<\/a>
\n2012-07-19<\/p>\n

Michael Wood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe black trumpeter John Blanke<\/a> played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII<\/small><\/p>\n

The reign of Elizabeth I<\/a> saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood.<\/em><\/p>\n

Walk out of Aldgate Tube<\/a> and stroll around Whitechapel Road<\/a> in east London today, and you’ll experience the heady sights, smells and sounds of the temples, mosques and curry houses of Brick Lane<\/a>\u2014so typical of modern multicultural Britain.<\/p>\n

Most of us tend to think that black people came to Britain after the war\u2014Caribbeans on the Empire Windrush<\/a> in 1948, Bangladeshis after the 1971 war<\/a> and Ugandan Asians after Idi Amin’s expulsion in 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, back in Shakespeare’s<\/a> day, you could have met people from west Africa and even Bengal<\/a> in the same London streets.<\/p>\n

Of course, there were fewer, and they drew antipathy as well as fascination from the Tudor<\/a> inhabitants, who had never seen black people before. But we know they lived, worked and intermarried, so it is fair to say that Britain’s first black community starts here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There had been black people in Britain in Roman times, and they are found as musicians in the early Tudor period in England and Scotland.<\/p>\n

But the real change came in Elizabeth I’s<\/a> reign, when, through the records, we can pick up ordinary, working, black people, especially in London…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,10],"tags":[8597,12431,12430,12433,12432],"class_list":["post-25944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-news-magazine","tag-elizabeth-i","tag-john-blanke","tag-michael-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}