This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service. Life-history interviews with black immigrants born before 1911 focusing on family life, community and work experience in England and Wales before 1918. The interview schedule covered first impressions of Britain; domestic routine, including the roles of husbands, wives and children; meals; the upbringing of children; emotional relationships and values in the family; leisure; religion; politics; race discrimination; culture; school; courtship and marriage; the wider family; relationships with neighbours and perception of the community structure. The collection comprises 17 interviews on 32 open-reel tapes. There are transcriptions of ten of these interviews. Immigrants; black people; family life; community life; occupational life; education; leisure; religion; politics; marriage; children; childhood; culture; racial discrimination; race relations.