Linked to project
(A-Z by author)
Kester Aspden, Nationality Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale (Jonathan Cape, 2007)
Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War (The History Press, Stroud, 2014)
Stephen Bourne, The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939-45 (The History Press, 2012)
Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas, West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1991)
Vincent Carretta, Equiano, The African (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Gareth H H. Davies, Pablo Fanque and the Victorian Circus: A Romance of Real Life (Poppyland Publishing, 2017)
Ian Duffield, Duse Mohamed Ali and the development of Pan-Africanism 1866-1945 [Thesis]
Jeffrey Green, Black Edwardians (Frank Cass, 1998)
Delia Jarrett-Macauley, The Life of Una Marson 1905-65 (Manchester University Press, 1998)
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
Mark Johnson, Caribbean Volunteers at War (Pen & Sword Aviation, 2014)
Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge - 3 volume biography of (University of Rochester Press, 2011)
Herbert Marshall and Mildred Stock, Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (Rockliff, 1958)
Owen Mortimer, Speak of me as I am: the story of Ira Aldridge (Owen Mortimer, 1995)
E. Martin Noble, Jamaica Airman (New Beacon Books, 1984)
Paul Robeson [Jr.], The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom 1939-1976 (Wiley, 2010)
Andrew Ward, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000)
Valerie Wint, The Longer Run: A Daughter’s Story (Ian Randle Publishers (Jamaica), 2012)
(A-Z by author)
Kester Aspden, Nationality Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale (Jonathan Cape, 2007)
Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War (The History Press, Stroud, 2014)
Stephen Bourne, The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939-45 (The History Press, 2012)
Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas, West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1991)
Vincent Carretta, Equiano, The African (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Gareth H H. Davies, Pablo Fanque and the Victorian Circus: A Romance of Real Life (Poppyland Publishing, 2017)
Ian Duffield, Duse Mohamed Ali and the development of Pan-Africanism 1866-1945 [Thesis]
Jeffrey Green, Black Edwardians (Frank Cass, 1998)
Delia Jarrett-Macauley, The Life of Una Marson 1905-65 (Manchester University Press, 1998)
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
Mark Johnson, Caribbean Volunteers at War (Pen & Sword Aviation, 2014)
Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge - 3 volume biography of (University of Rochester Press, 2011)
Herbert Marshall and Mildred Stock, Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (Rockliff, 1958)
Owen Mortimer, Speak of me as I am: the story of Ira Aldridge (Owen Mortimer, 1995)
E. Martin Noble, Jamaica Airman (New Beacon Books, 1984)
Paul Robeson [Jr.], The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom 1939-1976 (Wiley, 2010)
Andrew Ward, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000)
Valerie Wint, The Longer Run: A Daughter’s Story (Ian Randle Publishers (Jamaica), 2012)
General Background
(A-Z by author)
Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain (Lawrence & Wishart, 1998)
James Berry, Windrush Songs (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press, London, 1997)
Stephen Bourne, Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 (The History Press, 2010)
Mary F. Brewer, Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
Kathleen Chater, Untold Histories: Black People in England…c.1660-1807 (Manchester University Press, 2009)
Ray Costello, Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War (Liverpool University Press, 2015)
David Dabydeen et al, The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Peter Fryer, Staying Power (Pluto Press, 1994)
Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before Emancipation (Allison & Busby, 1999)
Gretchen Gerzina, Black Victorians, Black Victoriana (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
Paul Gilroy & Stuart Hall (eds.), Black Britain: A Photographic History (SAQI, 2007)
Linda Hervieux, Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War (Harper Collins, 2016)
Joseph E. Inikori, Africans & the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary (Serpents Tail, 2000 / Random House, 2005)
Miranda Kaufman, Black Tudors [Due to be published in October 2017]
Douglas A. Lorimer, Colour Class and the Victorians: English attitudes to the Negro in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Leicester University Press, 1978)
Jan Marsh, Black Victorians: Black People in British Art, 1800-1900 (Lund Humphries, 2005)
Phil Melling, The Glory of Their Time: Crossing the Colour Line in Rugby League (Vertical, 2004)
Michaela Morgan, Respect: The Walter Tull Story (2016)
Robert N. Murray, Lest We Forget: The Experiences of World War II West Indian Ex-Service Personnel (Hansib, 1996)
David Olusoga, Black and British: a Forgotten History (Macmillan, 2016)
David Olusoga, The World’s War (Head of Zeus, 2014)
Emy Onuora, Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers (Biteback, 2015)
Tom Reiss, The Black Count (Vintage, 2013)
Edward Scobie, Black Britannia (Johnson Publishing Co., 1972)
Steve Alexander Smith, British Black Gospel: The Foundations of this Vibrant UK Sound (Monarch Books, 2009)
Jon Stratton, Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 (Ashgate, 2014)
James Walvin, Black & White: The Negro and English Society, 1555-1945 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1973)
Benjamin Zephaniah, Too Black, Too Strong (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
(A-Z by author)
Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain (Lawrence & Wishart, 1998)
James Berry, Windrush Songs (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press, London, 1997)
Stephen Bourne, Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 (The History Press, 2010)
Mary F. Brewer, Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
Kathleen Chater, Untold Histories: Black People in England…c.1660-1807 (Manchester University Press, 2009)
Ray Costello, Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War (Liverpool University Press, 2015)
David Dabydeen et al, The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Peter Fryer, Staying Power (Pluto Press, 1994)
Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before Emancipation (Allison & Busby, 1999)
Gretchen Gerzina, Black Victorians, Black Victoriana (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
Paul Gilroy & Stuart Hall (eds.), Black Britain: A Photographic History (SAQI, 2007)
Linda Hervieux, Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War (Harper Collins, 2016)
Joseph E. Inikori, Africans & the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary (Serpents Tail, 2000 / Random House, 2005)
Miranda Kaufman, Black Tudors [Due to be published in October 2017]
Douglas A. Lorimer, Colour Class and the Victorians: English attitudes to the Negro in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Leicester University Press, 1978)
Jan Marsh, Black Victorians: Black People in British Art, 1800-1900 (Lund Humphries, 2005)
Phil Melling, The Glory of Their Time: Crossing the Colour Line in Rugby League (Vertical, 2004)
Michaela Morgan, Respect: The Walter Tull Story (2016)
Robert N. Murray, Lest We Forget: The Experiences of World War II West Indian Ex-Service Personnel (Hansib, 1996)
David Olusoga, Black and British: a Forgotten History (Macmillan, 2016)
David Olusoga, The World’s War (Head of Zeus, 2014)
Emy Onuora, Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers (Biteback, 2015)
Tom Reiss, The Black Count (Vintage, 2013)
Edward Scobie, Black Britannia (Johnson Publishing Co., 1972)
Steve Alexander Smith, British Black Gospel: The Foundations of this Vibrant UK Sound (Monarch Books, 2009)
Jon Stratton, Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 (Ashgate, 2014)
James Walvin, Black & White: The Negro and English Society, 1555-1945 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1973)
Benjamin Zephaniah, Too Black, Too Strong (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
Child-friendly
(A-Z by author)
Hakim Adi, The History of the African and Caribbean Communities in Britain (Wayland, 2007)
Floella Benjamin, Coming to England (Collins Educational, 2000)
Verna Wilkins and Michael La Rose, History of the Steel Band (Tamarind, 2008)
Benjamin Zephaniah, We Are Britain! (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2003)
(A-Z by author)
Hakim Adi, The History of the African and Caribbean Communities in Britain (Wayland, 2007)
Floella Benjamin, Coming to England (Collins Educational, 2000)
Verna Wilkins and Michael La Rose, History of the Steel Band (Tamarind, 2008)
Benjamin Zephaniah, We Are Britain! (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2003)
Slavery
(A-Z by author)
Wilson Armistead, A Tribute for the Negro (1848)
Wilson Armistead, God’s Image in Ebony (1854)
Terence Brady, The Fight Against Slavery (BBC, 1975)
Paula Byrne, Belle (William Collins)
Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.), Slavery and the British Country House (English Heritage, 2013)
Zerbanoo Gifford, Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery (Anti-Slavery International, 1996)
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Macmillan, 2005)
Joseph Inikori, The Atlantic slave trade: effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (Duke University Press, 1992)
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (Penguin, 2001)
S. I. Martin, Britain's Slave Trade (Channel 4 Books, 1999)
Norma Myers, Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain, 1780-1830 (Frank Cass, London, 1996)
Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War Hutchinson (London, 2011)
Folarin Shyllon, Black Slaves in Britain (IRR / OUP, 1974/77)
Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Portobello Books, London, 2012)
Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 (Picador, 1997)
James Walvin, Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (Blackwell, 2001)
Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery (Andre Deutsch, 1964)
(A-Z by author)
Wilson Armistead, A Tribute for the Negro (1848)
Wilson Armistead, God’s Image in Ebony (1854)
Terence Brady, The Fight Against Slavery (BBC, 1975)
Paula Byrne, Belle (William Collins)
Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.), Slavery and the British Country House (English Heritage, 2013)
Zerbanoo Gifford, Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery (Anti-Slavery International, 1996)
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Macmillan, 2005)
Joseph Inikori, The Atlantic slave trade: effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (Duke University Press, 1992)
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (Penguin, 2001)
S. I. Martin, Britain's Slave Trade (Channel 4 Books, 1999)
Norma Myers, Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain, 1780-1830 (Frank Cass, London, 1996)
Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War Hutchinson (London, 2011)
Folarin Shyllon, Black Slaves in Britain (IRR / OUP, 1974/77)
Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Portobello Books, London, 2012)
Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 (Picador, 1997)
James Walvin, Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (Blackwell, 2001)
Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery (Andre Deutsch, 1964)
Downloads
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Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
Jacqueline Jenkinson, The 1919 Race Riots in Britain: Their Background and Consequences (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987)
Click the references below to download PDF extracts from the following texts.
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
Jacqueline Jenkinson, The 1919 Race Riots in Britain: Their Background and Consequences (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987)