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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 30 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
    CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries - by John L Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472130129 | ISBN 10: 147213012x

    Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips
    Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain - by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008609702 | ISBN 10: 0008609705

    The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants.  In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism &the British Socialist Movement Before Decolonisation by Theo Williams
    Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism &the British Socialist Movement Before Decolonisation - by Theo Williams

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761980 | ISBN 10: 1839761989

    How black radicals reshaped the British left.   Making the Revolution Global shows how black radicals transformed socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation.   African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
    Black Teacher - by Beryl Gilroy

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366989 | ISBN 10: 0571366988

    The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')  Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs by Jeffrey Boakye, illustrated by Ngadi Smart
    Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs - by Jeffrey Boakye, illustrated by Ngadi Smart

    £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?  This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key s ... more

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  • Cover image of book 100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne
    100 Great Black Britons - by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472147042 | ISBN 10: 1472147049

    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 100 G ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
    Black and British: A Forgotten History - by David Olusoga

    £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   In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga off ... more

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  • Cover image of book We
    We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire - by Ian Sanjay Patel

    £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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  • Cover image of book Voices of the Windrush Generation by David Matthews
    Voices of the Windrush Generation - by David Matthews

    £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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  • Cover image of book Black British History: New Perspectives by Hakim Adi (Editor)
    Black British History: New Perspectives - by Hakim Adi (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
    Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children - by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472261915 | ISBN 10: 1472261917

    A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation, featuring David Lammy and Lenny Henry.  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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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Stop the Carnival: Black Music in Britain - by Kevin le Gendre

    £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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  • Cover image of book Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
    Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - by Clair Wills

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin
    The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain - by Ron Ramdin

    £30.00   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 pres ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
    Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation - by Susan Williams

    £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.   London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers by Emy Onuora
    Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers - by Emy Onuora

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever by Paul Rees
    The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever - by Paul Rees

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys: 1685 to the Present by Tony Kushner
    The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys: 1685 to the Present - by Tony Kushner

    £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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  • Cover image of book Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement by Kehinde Andrews
    Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement - by Kehinde Andrews

    £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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  • Cover image of book Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley
    Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital - by Lloyd Bradley

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Motherland Calls: Britain
    The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45 - by Stephen Bourne

    £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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  • Cover image of book Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - by Simon Schama

    £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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  • Cover image of book A Troubled Dream by Jacques Compton
    A Troubled Dream - by Jacques Compton

    £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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  • Cover image of book Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden
    Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale - by Kester Aspden

    £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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  • Cover image of book Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy
    Black Britain: A Photographic History - by Paul Gilroy

    £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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  • Cover image of book And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen by Doreen Lawrence
    And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen - by Doreen Lawrence

    £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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  • Cover image of book East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle
    East of Acre Lane - by Alex Wheatle

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Colour of Justice: Based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor (Editor)
    The Colour of Justice: Based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - by Richard Norton-Taylor (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain, 1901-14 by Jeffrey Green
    Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain, 1901-14 - by Jeffrey Green

    £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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  • Cover image of book Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain c.1780-1830 by Dr Norma Myers
    Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain c.1780-1830 - by Dr Norma Myers

    £48.99   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, co ... more

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