In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, author Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, scre...

Stephen Bourne (1791-1868) was a British civil servant who served as a magistrate in Jamaica betw...

Trade Population and Food - A Series of Papers on Economic Statistics is an unchanged, high-quali...

Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is o...

Although she was arguably the most influential female blues and jazz singer of the 1920s and 1930...

Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is o...

In 1942 Lena Horne became the first black star to sign a long-term contract with M-G-M, one of Ho...

In 1942 Lena Horne became the first black star to sign a long-term contract with M-G-M, one of Ho...

A fully revised and updated edition of a vitally important piece of black British history

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, Bourne's War to Windrus...

Untold story of one of Britain's most versatile singers who thrilled audiences around the world i...

From her memorable role in Gone With the Wind to her last big screen appearance opposite Harrison...

Mother Country

In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascina...

In 1943 the famous Battle of Britain pilot Flight Lieutenant Ian Gleed was shot down over Tunisia...

The trials and triumphs of Britain's black community during the Second World War

The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through ...

A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12

The Book of the Daffodil

The Book of the Daffodil

Trade Population and Food. A Series of Papers on Economic Statistics

Trade Population and Food. A Series of Papers on Economic Statistics

The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through ...