Curiouser and curiouser...: BBC News: Britain's first black community in Elizabethan London →

starfishncoffeeelephantsnflowers:

For those folks whining about the Black casting in The Hollow Crown and other Shakespearean and historical British productions. Here ya go:

The Westminster Tournament Roll from the 16th Century showing the black trumpeter, John Blanke

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…

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