This panoramic visual history of Black Britain in the 20th Century documents the story of black settlement through a wealth of archive photographs; it includes images of ordinary lives caught up in watershed historic events as well as pictures of celebrities from the worlds of politics, sport, and the arts. Paul Gilroy provides a detailed interpretation of the social and cultural significance of these images which commemorate resilience and achievement but suggest also the country's 'difficult and unfinished process of becoming postcolonial'.