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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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