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3RD CENTURY AD
The Hadrian’s Wall fort at Burghby-Sands (known to its occupants as Aballava) becomes home to a troop of African Romans. The so-called “Aurelian Moors” hail from what is now Morocco, north Africa.
1241
An early depiction of a black person in Britain appears in an abbreviated version of the Domesday Book, in the entry for Derbyshire.
1511
Royal trumpeter John Blanke - the only black Tudor for whom we have an identifiable image - plays at the celebration of the birth of Henry VIII’s son (). Blanke disappears from the records after January 1512.