LSE Library Black History Month 2026 by Heather Dawson

Race Women Internationalists by Dr Imaobong Umoren, won the Women's History Network Book Prize for 2019

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Ian Sanjay Patel's book on immigration and the end of empire

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Coretta Phillips article on social policy

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Phillips, Coretta and Williams, Fiona (2022) Sleepwalking into the ‘post-racial’: social policy and research-led teaching. Social Policy and Society, 21 (1). 26 - 41. ISSN 1475-3073
Read the article vis LSE Research online
More about the author.

Find journal articles

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Try Race Relations Abstracts

Black and British

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Olusoga, David. Black and British : a Forgotten History. London: Macmillan, 2016. Print
The book was awarded the 2017 Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

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Black Skins, White Masks

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Classic book by Frantz Fanon
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Women, Race and Class

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Classic 1980s text from Angela Davis
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.

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Great text from Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
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Africa Diaspora 1860 onwards

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Access texts and photos. There are a large number of documents relating to the building of the Panama Canal, some African Civil Rights, and a small number about the Notting Hill race riots 1960s. Another key feature are writings from George Padmore. A journalist, radical activist, George Padmore a key figure in shaping the discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century. read the full text of his influential book Africa: Britain's third Empire

Connecting Africa

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Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa. full-text of publications, images and sound from over institutional repositories. Many based in African nations. note no new records added after 2024.

African Journals Online

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AJOL is the world's largest and searchable website of content from scholarly journals published in Africa

AfricaBib.

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A searchable database of references to African studies social science literature maintained by the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) in Leiden,

AfricArXiv

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AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository

Global Index Medicus

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The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries

Caribbean Newspapers online

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876

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Over 160 publications from nations including Antigua, Haiti and Jamaica. Great for getting the viewpoint of local populations

Colonial Caribbean : settlement, slavery, and empire, 1624-1832.

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AM database. Contains materials from the Colonial Office files for the Caribbean, originals are housed at The National Archives.

Confidential Print Africa 1834-1966

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Provides electronic access to the United Kingdom's Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices' confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966. The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence.

World Newspaper Archive African Newspapers 1800-1922

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World Newspaper Archive African Newspapers 1800-1922 - over 60 titles from countries including: Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Overton

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This database is good for tracing policy documents from governments worldwide. register for full access.

Policy Commons

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This database is good for tracing policy papers and reports from NGOs, charities and research institutes worldwide.

Empire Online

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This database contains manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by maps, timelines and essays

Ghana and Togo Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1843-1957

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contains papers from the colonial governments in Ghana and Togo. They shed much light on British rule in these territories.

HeinOnline: Slavery

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Includes the section: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792

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Records of the slave trade from the Liverpool Record Office, 1754–1898.

Private merchants' papers relating to the transatlantic slave trade.

Women and social movements : development and the Global South

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contains Records of the Peace Corps, 1961 - 2000 (RG490). Women in Development (WID) Program Files, 1974 - 1988 (P 72) and papers from Caroline Farrar Ware

Black Oral history Project

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The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes including first impressions, religious experiences, education, experiences of racism, identity, as well as their thoughts on the future.

The Barnardo’s Oral History project

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Includes: The personal experience of our Vice President, Baroness Floella Benjamin who came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago as a small child

Our six-part feature - Resilience: a life in Care, a series with Tony Simpson who retraces his steps in Barnardo's Care by visiting the places and institutions he was born and raised in
The intergenerational conversations between our British black and dual heritage care leavers about their experience of being supported by Barnardo’s
Personal reflections of our staff as the direct descendants of the Windrush generation

The Making of Black Britain - Google Arts & Culture

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non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people.

Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants

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community developed resource including interviews with local people oftheir experiences

Nationality, Identity and Belonging:

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An Oral History of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and their Relationship to the British State, 1948-2018. ongoing university of London project which contains interviews that highlight the importance of the Windrush Generation in Higher Education.

Black Frontline project

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the UK section forms part of a broader project collecting memories of e testimonies of Black healthcare workers in the UK. all contributions are annymised.

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An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi . As Badawi puts it: “I hope I have demonstrated that Africa has a history, that it is a fundamental part of our global story, and one that is worthy of greater attention and respect than it has so far received.”

Oxford Intersections : Racism by Context

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collection of articles analyzing racism across systemic, interpersonal, and structural levels, with real-world relevance for researchers and policymakers

Decolonization : Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories.

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brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories. it has strong coverage of the development of party politics, trade unions and other local and national movements in former colonies and Commonwealth nations across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Australasia, and the America. Includes African Trade Union Papers and the Political Pamphlets from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

BBC Monitoring : Summary of World Broadcast. Series 1-4 (1939-2001).

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BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings Iy is possible to limit and search for results relating to Asia and African nations

Uganda under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1903-1961.

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Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office

This collection, drawn from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office records, contains a wealth of information on how Uganda was run by the British. The documents within the collection are dated between 1903 and 1961, just before Uganda’s independence from Britain in 1962. While there are some reports from the early 1900s the majority of the collection includes reports from the 1920s onwards. The documents are conveniently divided between 9 volumes, each compromising of reports from different government departments at the time. The volumes include Administration 1909-1961, Finance 1929-1962, Judicial and Police 1912-1960, Natural Resources 1903-1961, Social Services 1908-1961, Transport and Public Works 1912-1961, Trade and Commerce 1910-1961, Development Corporation and Boards 1948-1961 and Miscellaneous Reports 1923-1961. The subject matter varies between each report. Topics such as education, medicine, housing, accounts, forestry, agriculture and railways in Uganda are touched on within the reports.

South African Censuses - LSE Digital Library

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A series of official censuses (1866 – 1968) produced by successive South African governments. These publications, along with the South African Education Reports collection, provide statistics and time-series data on a range of topics, including demographics, education, employment, housing, industry, marital conditions and public health, as well as insight into the policies of successive South African governments before and after independence from British rule.

CORAA – the Open Map for Archives Network in Africa.

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Recently launched this great resource created by

The International Council on Archives (ICA), in coordination with the Africa Programme,

A visual map by country and theme of archives and archival skills expertise in African nations. Browse by country of theme. Each entry has descriptions and links to websites

How Africa Eats open access from LSE Press

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Sharing a new digital archive exploring the Windrush scandal through oral histories, government records, and community activism. This transnational project highlights Caribbean diplomacy and UK advocacy. Visit the site to access interviews, transcripts, and resources, and learn how international support shaped grassroots campaigning.

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Confidential Print : North America, 1824-1961. British government Confidential Print volumes covering relations with the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America. Includes topics such as slavery, racial segregation,