Wednesday 2 May 2012

Black and Asian British History

The following links support my workshop at the 2012 Historical Association Conference in Reading.


Black History 4 Schools
National Archives - Black Presence
Spartacus - Black People in Britain
BBC Learning Zone - Black Britons
Westminster Libraries - Black Presence
National Portrait Gallery - Diversity
Black Presence - Black Britain
100 Great Black Britons
BBC Short History of Immigration
Black and Asian Studies Association
The First Asians in Britain

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African Romans
Archaeology of Black Britain in Black Presence
Richard Benjamin's feature in British Archaeology magazine
The Romans in Britain - Integrated Archaeological Database

The Lady of York:

Romans Revealed Resource for children from the Runnymede Trust
Original article in Antiquity
History Today
BBC
The Guardian
The Times
BBC York

The Stratford Skeleton

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Video clips

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
Adelaide Hall: T'ain't What You Do It's The Way That Cha Do It
Walter's War (Walter Tull)
The Princess Spy (Noor Inayat Khan)
BBC Learning Zone: Septimius Severus and Black soldiers on Hadrian's Wall
BBC Learning Zone: John Blanke
BBC Learning Zone: Mary Prince
BBC Learning Zone: Sake Deen Mohamed
BBC Learning Zone: John Archer
BBC Learning Zone: Noor Inayat Khan
BBC Learning Zone: Walter Tull
BBC Learning Zone: West Indian immigrants' first impressions of the UK

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National Geographic: Pirates of the Whydah
The Abolition Project
History's Heroes
Banglastories
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Black Victorians
Brighton and Hove Black History
The Guardian Black History Wallchart
Abdul Karim


Recommended books

Peter Fryer, Staying Power (still the seminal history of Black people in Britain)
Rozina Visram, Asians in Britain - 400 years of History
Rozina Visram,  Ayahs, Lascars and Princes
Robert Winder, Bloody Foreigners
Stephen Bourne, Mother Country: Britain's Black community on the Home Front
Dabydeen et al, The Oxford Companion to Black British History
Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before emancipation

Books for children (upper primary/lower secondary)

Dan Lyndon, Resistance and Abolition
Dan Lyndon, Civil Rights and Equality
Dan Lyndon, Arts and Music
Dan Lyndon, Community and Identity