audio by title black history fact of the day 2

Roman Settlements included a substantial black presence including Septimus Severus, an African-born Roman Emperor who died in York in 211. He was recently named as one of the 100 Great Black Brittons. An African auxiliary unit of the Roman army was stationed on Hadrian’s Wall.

More information in the Oxford Companion to Black British History and at http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba77/feat1.shtml.