Articles

Black History is constantly being researched, discussed, and reinterpreted. This section provides a growing collection of articles, research, websites, films, podcasts, and other material recommended by BHC contributors and participants.

We particularly welcome material that helps uncover connections between local and global histories — including Africa, the Caribbean, Britain, Europe, and the wider African diaspora.

Topics may include slavery and colonialism, African history, resistance and emancipation, Windrush and migration, reparations, heritage, archaeology, family history, literature, music, and culture.

We also want to highlight new community research, which may not otherwise reach a wide audience.

Ireland has yet to come to terms with its imperial past.

Added by Jane Ohlmeyer at 08:22 on 25 March 2021

Some celebrate and some excoriate connections with the British Empire In July 2019 Boris Johnson asked why Le...

Telling the Story of Negro Cloth and Welsh Plains

Added by Chris Evans at 15:32 on 24 March 2021

Professor Chris Evans, author of "Slave Wales: Wales and Atlantic Slavery 1660 - 1850": In the eight...

The Colour Burden and the African Response: The Nigerian example of challenging Racism.

Added by Prof Sati Fwatshak at 12:10 on 26 February 2021

Introduction Commonalities and variations exist in the experiences of continental Africans with racism. The sa...

United Kingdom:

Learning Links International

Wales:

Race Council Cymru

North Wales Jamaica Society

South Wales Jamaica Society

Jamaica Wales Alliance

Learning Links International

England:

Belong Nottingham

Scotland:

Highlands and Slavery Research

Flag Up Scotland Jamaica

Ireland:

African Countries:

Caribbean Countries:

Jamaica:

SenYAcum - Yasus Afari

There are so many resources relating to Black History that it difficult to know where to start.

Books

Films

TV Series

UNESCO History of Africa Click Here for 20 episodes with African presenters.

Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade has been re-versioned to a 4×60 series for BBC Two in collaboration.

The four-part series sheds light on 400 years of human trafficking and the millions of Africans who were shipped to the Americas.

Featuring Guardian writer Afua Hirsch, and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici, the documentary is set to give viewers a better understanding of the transatlantic slave trade.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/11/enslaved-review-samuel-l-jackson-presents-a-brutally-poignant-history-of-the-slave-trade

Resources related to specific sessions will be posted there and also under themes.

NB This is very much under development - contributions welcome!