Books

Non-fiction

Writers of historical and contemporary non-fiction books.

• Abegoke, Yomi. & Uviebinené, Elizabeth. (2018), Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, Fourth Estate
• Adi, Hakim. (1998) West Africans in Britain, Lawrence & Wishart
• Adiaye, Natreema. (2015) Melanin Monologues: A Black British Perspective, The Wordsmiths Workshop Limited
• Akala. (2018) Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Hodder and Stoughton  (Unfiltered with James O’Brien #32 - filmed discussion)
• Andrews, Kehinde. (2019) Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century, Zed Books
• Bauer, Shane (2018) American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Penguin books
• Blackmon, Douglas A. (2009) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Anchor Books
• Bland, Lucy. (2019) Britain's 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War, Manchester University Press (online podcast by Lucy Bland)
• Boakye, Jeffrey. (2019) Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored, Dialogue Books
• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (2017), Racism without Racists, Rowman & Littlefield
• Bourne, Stephen. (2012) The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen and Women, 1939-1945, The History Press
• Bourne, Stephen. (2014) Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War, The History Press
• Bundock, Michael. (2015) The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir, Yale University Press
• Carretta, Vincent. (2005) Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-made Man, University of Georgia Press
• Chambers, Eddie. (2014) Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950, I.B.Tauris
• Chater, Kathleen. (2009) Untold Histories: Black People in England…c.1660-1807, Manchester University Press.
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2015) Between the World and me, Text Publishing Company
• Costello, Ray. (2012) Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships, Liverpool University Press
• Costello, Ray. (2015) Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War, Liverpool University Press
• Dabiri, Emma. (2019) Don't Touch My Hair, Allen Lane
• Dabydeen, David, et. al, (eds), (2007) The Oxford Companion to British Black History, OUP.
• Dass, Surjan K. (2020) Black People Invented Everything: The History of Indigenous Creativity, Supreme Design Publishing
• Draper, Christopher. & Lawson-Reay, John. (2012) Scandal at Congo House: William Hughes and the African Training Institute, Colwyn Bay
• Dresser, Madge. & Hann, Andrew.(eds.), (2013) Slavery and the British Country House, English Heritage
• Eshun, Ekow. (8th August 2017) Soon Comes Night, an essay and memoir
• Fryer, Peter. (1994) Staying Power, Pluto Press
• Gaine, Chris. (2005) We're All White Thanks: The Persisting Myth About 'White' Schools, Trentham Books
• Gerzina, Gretchen. (ed) (2003) Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, Rutgers University Press
• Gerzina, Gretchen H. editor, (2020) Britain’s Black Past, Liverpool University
  Press
• Gilroy, Paul. (2011) Black Britain: A Photographic History, Saqi Books
• Gopal, Priyamvada. (2019) Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent, Verso
• Green, Jeffrey. (1998) Black Edwardians, Frank Cass
• Green, Jeffrey. (2018) Black Americans in Victorian Britain, Pen & Sword History
• Hervieux, Linda. (2016) Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War, Harper Collins
• Hirsch, Afua. (2018) Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Vintage
• Hochschild, Adam. (2005) Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, Macmillan
• Inikori, Joseph E. (2002) Africans & the Industrial Revolution in England, Cambridge University Press
• Johnson, Mark. (2014) Caribbean Volunteers at War, Pen & Sword Aviation
• Jones, Danell. (2018) An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Kaufmann, Miranda. (2017) Black Tudors: The Untold Story, Oneworld
• Lindfors, Bernth. (2018) The Theatrical Career of Samuel Morgan Smith, Africa World Press
• Lyndon ,Dan. & Spafford, Martin. (2018) OCR SHP: Migrants to Britain c1250 to Present, Hodder Education
• Mohamud, Abdul. & Whitburn, Robin. (2017) AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People, Hodder Education
• Murray, Robert N. (1996) Lest We Forget: The Experiences of World War II West Indian Ex-service Personnel, Hansib
• Newsinger, John. (2006) The Blood Never Dried; A People’s History of the British Empire, Bookmarks Publications
• Nubia, Onyeka. (2019) Englands Other Country Men: Blackness in Tudor Society (Blackness in Britain), Zed Books
• Odumosu, Temi. (2018) Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (link to online review)
• Olusoga, David. (2014) The World’s War, Head of Zeus
• Olusoga, David. (2017) Black and British: A Forgotten History, Pan
• Onyeka. (2013) Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins, Narrative Eye Ltd
• Owusu, Derek. Safe. (2019) On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, Trapeze
• Phillips, Tom (2010) African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900, Hansjörg Mayer
• Pitts, Johny. (2019) Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Allen Lane (website with short film)
• Saini, Angela. (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science, Fourth Estate
• Sertima, Ivan Van (2003) They Came Before Columbus - The African Presence in Ancient America, Random House
• Stratton, Jon. (2014) Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, Ashgate
• Sherwood, Marika. (2019) Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War: The West African National Secretariat, 1945-48. Pluto Press
• Sherwood, Marika. (1982) The British Honduras Forestry Unit in Scotland 1941-43, One Caribbean (O.C.) Publishers
• Sissay, Lemn (2019) My Name Is Why, Canongate Books
• Talburt, Tony. (2017) Andrew Watson: the World's First Black Football Superstar, Hansib
• Thomas, Hugh. (1997). The Slave Trade, Picador
• Walker, Robin. (2011) When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations, AFDJ
  (presentation on YouTube)
• Williams, Chancellor. (1987) The destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000AD, Third World Press (audio book on YouTube)
• Williams, Eric (2013) British Capitalism & British Slavery, Diasporic Africa Press
• Wood, Marcus. (2000) Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865
• Zephaniah, Benjamin. (2001) Too Black, Too Strong, Bloodaxe Books

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