Jeffrey Green was born in 1944 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and grew up in London, England.
[2] Green worked for Grindlays Bank both in London and Uganda, and as an export manager for British manufacturers.
[6] In History Today in 2000, he argued that the black presence in the UK before 1940 had largely been ignored by historians.
[10] In 2015 he was nominated for a Grammy (jointly with Rainer Lotz and Howard Rye) for work on the 44-CD boxed set with two books, Black Europe, which rescued recordings made in Europe by people of African descent prior to 1928.
[1] Green's website, founded in 2009 partly in response to what he regarded as "ill-founded articles on history and also to make available images and documents that he had been accumulating since the late 1970s",[11] was in 2020 taken on by the British Library as part of the national UK Web Archive.