Bits & Bobs

“Britain's colonial past reinterpreted: ‘Colonial Countryside’ is a child-led history and writing project supported by a team of historians

https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/colonial-countryside#:~:text=A%20ground%2Dbreaking%20collaboration%20between,links%20to%20the%20British%20Empire

“A decided inaptitude in his constitution”: Race, slavery, and disability in the nineteenth century British Empire

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/decided-inaptitude-his-constitution-race-slavery-and-disability-nineteenth

“A lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s more prevalent in Black Americans”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-25/lifetime-of-racism-makes-alzheimers-more-prevalent-in-black-americans

Steve Ward, Artistes of Colour: Ethnic Diversity and Representation in the Victorian Circus

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Artistes_of_Colour.html?id=WqsnzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

The legacy of Black Caribbean women who helped build the Panama Canal

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/migration-of-women-to-panama/

Caribbean Migrants in Panama and Cuba, 1851-1927: The Struggles, Opposition and Resistance of Jamaicans of African Ancestry

http://jpanafrican.org/docs/vol5no9/5.9Caribbean.pdf

The Mule of the World: The Strong Black Woman and The Woes of Being ‘Independent’

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/knots/article/download/29187/21755/66619

Mary Seacole and the Cholera in Panama

https://www.full-stop.net/2021/02/10/features/essays/dennis-m-hogan/mary-seacole-and-the-cholera-in-panama/

Women’s accounts and Caribbean history

https://journals.openedition.org/plc/698

After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, a view of black female writers is transformed

https://theworld.org/stories/2016/05/26/after-rediscovery-19th-century-novel-our-view-black-female-writers-transformed

Uncovering Black Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain | History

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/news/2019/oct/uncovering-black-women-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-britain

Strong, female and Black: Stereotypes of African Caribbean women’s body shape and their effects on clinical encounters

http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/27990364/Andrews_et_al_Strong_female_and_black_Health_2015.pdf

Mammy: a century of race, gender, and Southern Memory

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA223374447&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=15481867&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E2d5941ee

‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137465870_3

Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era

https://www.routledge.com/Representing-Mixed-Race-in-Jamaica-and-England-from-the-Abolition-Era-to/Salih/p/book/9781138868830

People of colour in Jamaica 1823

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/BStewart02.htm http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/BStewart02.htm

Slave Naming in Jamaica

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34563/1/WRAP_Burnard_Slave_Naming.pdf

Interracial Marriage During the Age of Reform

https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/9234/Gillis%20Final%20Project_FINAL_08_11_2014_Exemplary%20Title%20%282%29.pdf?sequence=3

Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800-1960

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-05452-7

Op-Ed: The term ‘people of color’ erases black people. Let’s retire it

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-widatalla-poc-intersectionality-race-20190428-story.html

“Jewish prison offer sues for racial discrimination because of Rashford mural” GOV.UK

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk › media

“U.K. Government vows to end ‘woke’ science”

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk › media

“The historical role of opium and what it tells us about illicit economies today”

https://drugs-disorder.soas.ac.uk/the-historical-role-of-opium-and-what-it-means-for-drug-economies-today/

“China, opium and racial capitalism: Amitav Ghosh on the roots of a deadly business”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-12/q-a-amitav-ghosh-smoke-and-ashes

“Lessons for capitalism from the East India Company”

https://www.ft.com/content/0f1ec9da-c9a6-11e9-af46-b09e8bfe60c0

The Guardian: “The Nigerian gas deal...”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/the-nigerian-gas-deal-the-irish-impresario-and-the-8bn-ruling-amid-claims-of-bribery

“Penn Museum buries bones of Black Philadelphians”

https://apnews.com/article/morton-cranial-collection-penn-museum-bones-repatriation-8b87b5542d9dc18447f791ddfa87f121

Chakravarty, U. (2023). Fictions of Consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England

https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253658/fictions-of-consent/

Smilios, M. (2024). The Black Angels: the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis

https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/maria-smilios/the-black-angels/9780349009254/

Mikaela Loach, It’s Not That Radical: climate action to transform our world

https://www.mikaelaloach.com/

Redemptioners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemptioner

Kanye West on slavery: 'For 400 years? That sounds like a choice'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/01/kanye-west-on-slavery-for-400-years-that-sounds-like-a-choice

Indian indentured labourers

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/indian-indentured-labourers/%23:~:text=2.-,Who%20were%20the%20Indian%20indentured%20labourers?,famine%20in%20the%2019th%20century

David Dabydeen: a series like ‘Roots’ would help the British public understand indentureship

https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/09/19/david-dabydeen-a-series-like-roots-would-help-the-british-public-understand-indentureship/

Harry Gouldbourne, “Black Workers in Britain”

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45341445

Honouring Ira Aldridge

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/currentprojects/multiculturalshakespeare/news/recentproductions/aldridge/

BBC series (1974) “The Black Man in Britain: 1550-1950”

Five films which explore the traditions of black involvement in British society, told by Derek Griffiths. The continued historical presence of the Black man from the middle of the 16th century until the end of the 19th century provides a backdrop against which the origins of racial attitudes in Britain are explored.

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cd312ab1ab7f4d79ac40405d3a19b49e

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034m9ql

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/black-man-britain-1974

The Revolutionary Practice of Black Feminisms

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/revolutionary-practice-black-feminisms

The Crimea: the last romantic war

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271213990_The_Last_Romantic_War_-_The_Crimean_War_of_1854-1856_and_The_Genesis_of_Contemporary_Wartime_Humanitarian_Relief

BBC World Service “Mary Seacole”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033k7pz

“First Tuesday” (1984) Mary Seacole

https://web.archive.org/web/20080306130805/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/17885

English Heritage: Celebrating People and Place – commemorative plaques, p131