Black British History Books – Some Light reading

This list of black history books is not exhaustive by any means.

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• Black Tudors – Miranda Kaufman (One World 2018),
• Britains Black Past – Gretchen Gerzina (Liverpool University Press)
• Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984)
• Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995)
• Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and Chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995)
• Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998)
• Wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (1857; reprinted by Falling Wall Press, edited by Ziggy Alexander and Audrey Dewjee,1984).
• Black Londoners 1880-1990 by Susan Okokon (Sutton Publishing Limited, 1998)
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831; reprinted by the University of Michigan Press, edited by Moira Ferguson,1993).
• The first Black footballer-Arthur Wharton 1865-1930 An Absence of Memory by Phil Vasili (frank Cass,1998, reprinted 1999)
• Colouring over the white Line- The History of Black footballers in Britain by Phil Vasili (Mainstream Publishing,2000)
• * West Indian Women at War-British Racism in World War II by Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas (Lawrence and Wishart, 1991)
• * Roots of the Future-Ethnic Diversity in the making of Britain By Commission for Racial Equality, 1997
• * England Affric-An Ethnological Survey by Ahmed Ali and Ibrahim Ali
  (Punite Books, 1995) ISBN 0 9518924 4 4
• * A History of the Black Presence in London (Greater London Council, 1986)
  ISBN 0 7168 1679 2
• * Black and white- the Negro and English Society 1555-1945 By James Walvin (Allen Lane, 1973)