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There are 41 books in this booklist
£7.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366491 | ISBN 10: 057136649x
Music can carry the stories of history like a message in a bottle. Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy... Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how?Â
This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key s ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529065602 | ISBN 10: 1529065607
Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
A Waterstones.com History Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize
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In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga off ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571367733 | ISBN 10: 0571367739
The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')Â
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781448218080 | ISBN 10: 144821808x
Renegade examines the struggle for racial justice in the UK, through the lens of one of Britain's most influential, and controversial, journalists and campaigners.Â
Born in Trinidad during the dying days of colonialism, Howe became an uncompromis ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788737678 | ISBN 10: 1788737679
What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?
Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state ra ... more
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£16.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999900854 | ISBN 10: 1999900855
A new perspective on the lives, careers and experiences of groundbreaking black footballers in England.Â
Ninety-two chapters tell the unique stories of the first black footballers to play for each of the English Football League clubs. Four years ... more
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£8.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912926398 | ISBN 10: 1912926393
From Bobby to Babylon, originally published in 1988, brings together a series of articles and interviews which provide the background and context to the urban rebellions which exploded across Britain in the wake of the Brixton riots of 1981, from the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784709136 | ISBN 10: 1784709131
When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re here,’ his father would say. ‘You have some place else to go?’Â
But now, se ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788701761 | ISBN 10: 1788701763
Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd.
Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 197 ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472144300 | ISBN 10: 1472144309
A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over many centuries, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE.
Patrick Vernon's landmark 1 ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339757 | ISBN 10: 0745339751
From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781527236967 | ISBN 10: 152723696x
Leroy Cooper understands the power of art to transform energy. Through street art, poetry, photography, painting and music, Leroy's personal experience has become his legacy. Â
Following his arrest in Liverpool 8 in 1981, his name has been inextr ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786994264 | ISBN 10: 1786994267
An unparalleled study of the black British experience, unearthing its crucial yet largely forgotten role in shaping British history.
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have play ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472261915 | ISBN 10: 1472261917
A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation, featuring David Lammy and Lenny Henry.Â
Britain was known as the Mother Country: a home away from home; a place that you would be welcomed with open arms; a land where you were free to build a ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781845233617 | ISBN 10: 1845233611
Don’t Stop the Carnival is the story of Black music in Britain from Tudor times to the mid 1960s. It is a story framed by slavery, empire, colonialism and the flow of music around the Black Atlantic of Africa, the Caribbean, the USA and Great Brita ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073969 | ISBN 10: 178607396x
A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer.
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A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian div ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338309 | ISBN 10: 0745338305
Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141974972 | ISBN 10: 0141974974
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018
TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motiv ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909762855 | ISBN 10: 1909762857
From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.
... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786630650 | ISBN 10: 1786630656
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century.
In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141985701 | ISBN 10: 0141985704
The true story of a love which defied family, Apartheid, and empire - the inspiration for the major new feature film A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.
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London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447299738 | ISBN 10: 1447299736
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series.
In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinaril ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846274206 | ISBN 10: 1846274206
England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline.
From the nation's modern origins in the Renaissance, travellers have eagerly roamed the glob ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781380192 | ISBN 10: 1781380198
Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849548144 | ISBN 10: 1849548145
When Paul Canoville took to the pitch for Chelsea in 1982, he was prepared for abuse. When the monkey chanting and the banana throwing started, he wasn't surprised. He wasn't prepared, however, for the abuse to be coming from his own side.
C ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119261 | ISBN 10: 1472119266
The Dark Side of British Football in the 1970s
When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: 'You'll ge ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780719066412 | ISBN 10: 0719066417
This pioneering study of migrant journeys to Britain begins with Huguenot refugees in the 1680s and continues to asylum seekers and East European workers today. Analysing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of p ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781858565156 | ISBN 10: 1858565154
In the 1960s Black communities in the UK mobilised against the discrimination and inequality their children experienced in mainstream schooling, setting up Black supplementary school projects where the deficits in educational provision could be recti ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846687617 | ISBN 10: 1846687616
For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752465852 | ISBN 10: 0752465856
Very little attention has been given to the thousands of black British, Caribbean and West African servicemen and - women who supported the British war effort from 1939-45. Black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the a ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780006530398 | ISBN 10: 0006530397
Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants from the first wave of immigration in 1948 to the present day.
Windrush: The Irresistible R ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536079 | ISBN 10: 0099536072
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
With gripping, powerfully vivid story-te ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906190132 | ISBN 10: 1906190135
In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain following the recruitment drives of such institutions as London Transport and the National Health Service. Many had also served in the British Armed Forces du ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099506171 | ISBN 10: 0099506173
When the body of David Oluwale, a rough sleeper with a criminal record and a history of mental illness, was pulled out of the River Aire near Leeds in May 1969, nobody asked too many questions about the circumstances of his death. A police charge sh ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780863565403 | ISBN 10: 0863565409
People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of British blackness and black Britishness, has assembled a living v ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571234592 | ISBN 10: 0571234593
This is the heartbreaking story of a mother's loss. It is also the story of how one ordinary black woman and her husband changed the face of British policing and the criminal justice system. In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007225620 | ISBN 10: 0007225628
A searing account of a young man's attempt to do the right thing set against the backdrop of the Brixton Riots. It is 1981. Biscuit lives with his mother, brother and sister. He helps out by hustling on the frontline for the South London badman, Nunc ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141010960 | ISBN 10: 0141010967
Growing up in London, Ekow Eshun never felt truly at home. Born in Britain to African parents, he found himself caught between two cultures without fully belonging to either. Plagued by the unease of dual identity, he travels to Africa to look for an ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781840021073 | ISBN 10: 1840021071
Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict, and the public inquiry into the investigation caused a national outcry. An o ... more
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£43.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780714644264 | ISBN 10: 0714644269
This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era - challenging conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history.
Historians of British s ... more
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£37.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780714641300 | ISBN 10: 0714641308
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers ... more
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