The 'Black History' series brings together a wide range of events and experiences from the past to promote knowledge and understanding of black culture today. This book looks at the growth of black communities across the world, and the strengthening of black identity.

This title looks at important rulers and leaders from black history such as Haile Selassie, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama. Biographies of each individual detail their childhood, struggles and achievements, looking at the legacy they have left behind today.

This book looks at the history of black people in England. Black people were common enough in Shakespeare's time for Queen Elizabeth to demand they all leave, and by the 18th century there were pubs, clubs and churches for black people.

Over a series of wry, informed chapters, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look at everything from hair capitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, from women's solidarity and friendship to 'black people time', forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance...

Lawyer Joseph Radcliffe and his black American comrade Benjamin Pierce were 'Buffalo Soldiers' in the Civil War and the Indian Wars - now Radcliffe defends the toughest cases in a troubled city. But in South Africa a war rages between the British and the Boers and, after an argument, his son Edward runs away to join the Irish forces there. When Edward is captured and held as a spy, Radcliffe and Pierce - a black man in a white man's war - set off...

A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of history. Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi-ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers in the 'Great War for Civilization' was forgotten and airbrushed...

This collection of plays by black British playwrights features six key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from 1979 to the present. It contains classic plays from each of the last three decades of the 20th century and three from the first decade of the 21st.

Paulette Wilson had always assumed she was British. She had spent most of her life in London working as a cook; she even worked in the House of Commons' canteen. How could someone who had lived in England since being a primary school pupil suddenly be classified as an illegal immigrant? It was only through Amelia Gentleman's tenacious investigative and campaigning journalism that it emerged that thousands were in Paulette's position. What united them...