When Peter Blackman left Barbados for England in 1933, it was to train for that pillar of the establishment, the Anglican priesthood. And even though in the 30s black people had lived for years in places like London, Liverpool and Cardiff, few had so far scrambled over the barriers of class and race into theological college. So how was this future priest from the plantations of ' Little England' received in English society? And how did his experiences in the heartland of the British Empire influence the course of his later life and thinking?