Before the Windrush: Fascinating pictures show the black faces famous in British life long before West Indians arrived in 1948

An incredible exhibition featuring photos of Queen Victoria's Nigerian foster child and Britain's first black ballet troupe offers a compelling insight into the life of black and Asian people before the Wind Rush. The National Portrait Gallery's Black Chronicles: Photographic Portraits 1862-1948 allows a rare glimpse of these forgotten cultural pioneers, such as freed slave turned Victorian society favourite Sarah Forbes Bonetta (left) and Berto Pasuka right) whose Les Ballets Negre delighted post-war England with its Afro-Caribbean dance performances.