Reading list

Kathleen Paul, Whitewashing Britain, Cornell University Press, 1997
Daniel Trilling, Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right, Verso Books, 2012
Gavin Watson, Skins, Music Press Books, 2015
Leroy Rosenior and Leo Moynihan, It’s only banter: The Autobiography of Leroy Rosenior, Pitch Publishing, 2017
David Nowell, Too Darn Soulful, Robson Books, 2001
Bernard Coard, How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System, McDermott Publishing, 1971
Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture, Viking, 2000
Sound System Culture, One Love Books, 2013
Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, Headline, 22 May 2006
Francesco Mellina, Last Night at Wigan Casino, March Design, 2022

Ashley Clark, ‘Scenes from a hostile environment: a history of Black British protest film and television’, BFI, Sight & Sound, 7 August 2020
The Black Scholar Interviews: David Koff & Msindo Mwinyipembe’, The Black Scholar, 10(8/9), 68– 80 (May 1979)
Mark Keighley, Wool City, G Whitaker and Company Ltd, 2007
‘The Atkins Report on the Strategic Future of the Wool Textile Industry’ (University of Southampton, 1969)
Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning, Allen Lane, 2013
‘George Lindo Speaks’, Bradford Black, 2(4), 44– 45 (March 1979)
Matt Foot, ‘Corrupt Cops’, London Review of Books, 8 February 2024
J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, Vintage, 1986

Richard Vinen, Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain, Allen Lane, 2022
Vanley Burke, By The Rivers of Birmingham, Mac Birmingham, 2012
Evelyn Waugh, The Coronation of Haile Selassie, Penguin, 2005
Benjamin Zephaniah, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography, Scribner UK, 2018
Kieran Connell, Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain, California University Press, 2019
Derek Bishton, Talking Blues: The Black Community Speaks About Its Relationship with the Police, Affor, 1978
Norman Adams (Jah Blue), A Historical Report: The Rastafarian Movement in England, GWA Works, 2002
Ernest Cashmore, Rastaman: The Rastafarian Movement in England, Allen & Unwin, 1979

Paul Gilroy, Black Britain, SAQI, 2011
Pardner Money Stories, Deanne Heron, HANSIB, 2011
Stuart Cosgrove, Young Soul Rebels, Polygon
Mark Christian, ‘The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness’
John Belchem, ‘Race relations in the 1950s’, in Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th­ Century Liverpool, Liverpool, 2014
Anthony Hogan, The Beat Makers: The Unsung Heroes of The Mersey Sound, Amberley Publishing, 2017
Dave Clay, A Liverpool Black History, Beaten Track Publishing, 2020
Ray Costello, Liverpool Black Pioneers, The Bluecoat Press, 2007.
Howard Gayle, 61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC’s First Black Footballer, De Coubertin Books, 2016
Andy Beckett, Promised You a Miracle, Allen Lane, 2013
Michael Heseltine, Life in the Jungle, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
Wally Brown, Wally Brown: A Life – Born and Raised in L8, Writing on the Wall, 2023
Michael Crick, Militant, Faber, 1984

The Place Is Here, edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles, Sternberg Press, 2016
Hugh Trevor- Roper, The Rise of Christian Europe, History Book Club, reprint, 1967
Shirin Hirsch, In The Shadow of Enoch, Manchester University Press, 2018
Paul Foot, The Rise of Enoch Powell, Penguin, 1969
Frank Bowling, Tate Britain retrospective catalogue
‘Bill Schwarz Ed.,’ West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean Artists’ Movement, New Beacon Books, 1992
Claudette Johnson, I Came To Dance, Modern Art Oxford, 2019

T Ras Makonnen, Pan­ Africanism from Within
Marika Sherwood, ‘“Mak”: Ras T Makonnen, the unrecognized hero of the Pan- African Movement’
Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood, The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited New Beacon Books
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, Penguin
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism, Penguin, 2015
Laurence Brown and Niall Cunningham, The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951– 2011, Cambridge University Press, January 2016
Roots: Oral History, (pamphlet), published 1992
Diana Watt and Adele Jones, Catching Hell and Doing Well, Trentham Books, 2015

‘Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival’, Lucienne Loh
Eric Jay, ‘Keep Them in Birmingham’, CRE, 1991
Howard Spring, Heaven Lies About Us: A Fragment of Infancy, Constable, 1939
Alan Llwyd, Black Wales: A History of Black Welsh People, Hughes & Son (Publishers) Ltd, 2005.
Jacqueline Jenkins, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain, Liverpool University Press, 2008
Kenneth Little, Negroes in Britain, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972
Leon Gooberman, ‘The State and Post- Industrial Urban Regeneration: The Reinvention of South Cardiff ’, Urban History, 2018
William Rees, Cardiff: A History of the City, 1969
‘Fighting Denial: The Lothian Black Forum and Anti- Racist Protests in Edinburgh, 1989– 1992’
Robin Ward, Exploring Edinburgh, Luath Press, 2021

Greg Wilson, ‘Electrospective: Hewan Clarke’ 
Matt Anniss, Join The Future (Velocity Press, 2021)
Doug Laughton, A Dream Come True, London League Publications Ltd
Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, William Collins, 1993
Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, Pluto Press, 2010
Simon Kelner, To Jerusalem and Back, Pan Books, 1996
Let It Be Told, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Pluto Press, 1987
Dave Hadfield, Up and Over, Mainstream Sport, 2004
Stuart Hall, Essential Essays Vol.1 & 2, Duke University Press, 2019