#black british actor

[manicpixiedepressedwitch]

daniel kaluuya on the cover of british gq feb 2024

[fortunatelynoisycollection]

claire forlani 

[melaninpov]

John Boyega in Mens Health

[nottrusttworthy]

Callum Turner — someone in the mirror

[burtonandtaylor]

[seizethenightagain2]

This new picture of Oliver is making me feral 🤯

Just wanna nuzzle into each of them 🥵

What a man 🥰🔥

[rosalyn51]

Matthew GoodE photographed by Kevin Davies in London.

[luckydiorxoxo]

[beau-gar]

DAMSON

www.beau-gar.tumblr.com

[blackder]

@alfieenoch

[casasupernovas]

Anyways it's Black History Month in the UK so shoutout to the best companion of all time and first onscreen female black companion in Doctor Who's history:

Martha Jones played by the beautiful Freema Agyeman!

[allbeautifulhumanbeings]

[yourdailyqueer]

Leah Harvey

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1993

Ethnicity: Black British

Occupation: Actor

[thecolebrothers]

Joe Cole attends the press night performance of "Dear England" at The Prince Edward Theatre on October 19, 2023 in London, England.

[enbysiriusblack]

i cannot for the life of me remember who made that post with the headcanon about the black family losing a lot of their wealth.

but i've been thinking about it a lot. and in england from early to mid 1900s, the aristocracy changed fundamentally as a class, they lost a lot of their previous held power as well as a lot of their money. and because of this, they either had to get a job (the aristocracy is the leisure class. they don't work), which means leaving behind the traditions of your class and your family in order to modernise and keep your money/power, or they could sell off their large estates/lands/artworks in order to keep tradition of the aristocracy as much as they could, but it meant losing a lot of money/power.

there's this quote describing this change in the aristocracy actually- "less power, more prestige". in staying with the traditions of old money, they lose the power they had in government/economy/whatever, but gain lots of admiration and respect from society- like they still have honour and integrity despite losing their money and power, which then becomes their primary tool in still being seen as an influential family.

and with the black family being known as "the noble and most ancient house of black", that definitely could show they chose that pathway. they're clinging onto their lineage of nobility in a time when the aristocracy as a class and the idea of high society is very much falling apart. and unlike quite a lot of these families, they don't modernise but instead keep their heads high and very much make it known that they are nobility and an ancient family, and have no intentions of disrupting this and losing the meaning of what being an aristocrat and a noble used to mean.

[burtonandtaylor]

Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)