Gunpowder

[Tandy]

Typical BBC making a point to add the token black guy to 1605 Britain.

Records show that black men and women have lived in Britain in small numbers since at least the 12th century, but it was the empire that caused their numbers to swell exponentially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

[Rjk]

Records show that black men and women have lived in Britain in small numbers since at least the 12th century, but it was the empire that caused their numbers to swell exponentially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

There were black men and women here in Roman times too.