Dominican-born historian, journalist, and broadcaster whose landmark book Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain (1972) was the first comprehensive narrative of the Black presence in British history. Living in Britain for over two decades from the 1940s, Scobie also contributed to the BBC Caribbean Service and edited Flamingo magazine, a political and cultural journal for African and Caribbean readers. His work, alongside those from other historians from the 1960s onward (e.g. Folarin Shyllon, James Walvin, Ron Ramdin, Peter Fryer), laid essential groundwork for later generations of Black British historians and forged new ground in how Britain’s past was told.
