Courses and Resources

Books

• Under One Flag : Details of the crucial roles of African, Asian and indigenous people of the British Empire played in World War 2. Forewords by Prince Harry and Johnson Beharry the Grenadian man who won the Victoria Cross
• Migrants in Britain c800 to present student book with Pearson GCSE based on our Notting Hill walk
• Ki-Ra’s Coily Crown lovely children’s book about self esteem and hair by MSL
• Before the Slave Trade Robin Walker. Pre European invasion African civilisations in pictures
• Before the Slave Trade Learning Resource,  to go with the book
• When We Ruled, Robin Walker. 700 page comprehensive review of thousands of years of African civilisations
• Black Mamba Boy, Nadifa Mohamed. Amazing adventure story  of Somalis who fought in the WW2  merchant navy, trekked across deserts and came to Britain
• Staying power the History of Black People in Britain 211AD to 1981, Peter Fryer the legendary book
• Black Victims of the Nazis, Zia N Reynolds. The life of Africans in Germany and German colonies 1904-1945
• Maroon Teachers: Teaching the Transatlantic Trade in enslaved Africans, Sandra Indrajit Gift . How to teach this diffiult subject
• The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano an African who freed himself from slavery and became a leader of the London abolition movement published this book on his life in 1789
• The Longman Companion to Slavery Emancipation and Civil Rights , Harry Harmer. Excellent
• Bury the Chains , Adam Hochschild. Best selling book on Britains true role in slavery and its abolition apart from the self congratulatory hyberbole
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney. Classic book detailing Europe’s dependence on Africa to establish modern society
• After Abolition Britain and the Slave Trade since 1807 , Marika Sherwood exposes the persistence of slavery in British colonies up to World War 2
• Life according to Maas Roy, Yvonne Archer. Story of post windrush Jamaican veteran in the Army
• Trading Souls Europe’s Transatlantic Trade in Africans  Prof Hilary Beckles & Prof Verene Shepherd superb book on the topic
• West Indian Women at War. British racism in World War 2, Ben Bousquet & Colin Douglas. The only book on West Indian women in WW2
• Lest We Forget Robert N Murray. Memoirs of Caribbean servicemen in WW2 Britain
• Reconstructing the Black Image, Gordon de la Mothe. The Black image since the 1500’s
• Black Scientists and Inventors  books 1-4, Michael Williams excellent lists and notes of Black Scientist
• Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush, Secrets of the Afro comb 6000 years of Art and Culture, the Story of Early Ancient Egypt Prehistoric and Old Kingdom 20,000 to 2181 BC from www.golden-destiny.com 3 history books on African history  specially written for primary/secondary school pupils
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome groundbreaking book on after effects of enslavement on cultural behaviour
• Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade C1660-1807. Kathleen Chater
• 4 Apps to teach your child Black History games and interactive quizzes on geography, science, culture and heroes
• Image of the Black in London Galleries highlights the Black presence to be found in the national art collections in London.
• The John Blank Projectis an art and archive project celebrating John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, the first person of African descent in British history for whom we have both an image and a record.