History Matters Journal : presenting the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain

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HOLDINGS
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 2024)
Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn 2023)
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2023)
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Autumn 2021)
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2021)
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 2021)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 2020)

CONTENTS
History Matters Journal Vol. 2, No. 1 (Autumn 2021)
Editorial: ​
Welcome to the Autumn 2021 issue of the History Matters Journal
Reflections on 2nd New Perspectives on the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain conference

Announcements:
MRes: the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester
The Young Historians Project Unveils mural at Royal United Hospital, Bath

Articles and Documents:
Music, Dance and Politics in Georgian Britain / Karl Arthur
Una Marson in London / Lynette Mills
Pathways to Preston West: How Preston’s West Indian community challenged the colour bar / Stephen Poleon
Ras Daniel Heartman’s work launched African history Classics and Inspired Generations in the Struggle for Black Liberation / Claudia Tomlinson
Who was Jackie Berkeley? The Black Parents Movement versus Greater Manchester Police, April 1984 – May 1985 / Hannah Francis
Caught in the Storm of the Education of the Black Child: Interview with Waveney Bushell / Claudia Tomlinson
The National Archives: Records in Focus / Kevin Searle
Black British history: student perspectives / Richard Akerele
Black History Matters: Then and Now / Kesewa John​

Reviews:
Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile / Tionne Parris​
Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonisation / A.S Francis​
This Lovely City / Kesewa John​

History Matters Journal Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2021)
Editorial: ​
Welcome to the Summer 2021 issue of the History Matters Journal
In Memory of Menelik Shabazz

​​Announcements:
2nd New Perspectives on the History of African and Caribbean people in Britain Conference

​Articles and Documents:
The 2021 Sewell Report: a Vindication of the Young Historians Project / Perry Blankson​
Building Black History into the Curriculum: Historical Videos for Schools and Museums / Angela Platt and Matthew Smith​
The Art of Narration: Memory, Voices and Archival Deadening in the reconstruction of Black British history / Olivia Wyatt​
Football and Social Acceptability in Victorian Britain: The Contrasting Fortunes of Andrew Watson and Arthur Wharton / Tony Talburt​
The Importance of Newspapers as Documents in African Historiography / Rey Bowen​
Archive Adventures / Kesewa John​
From Jamaica to the UK, Searching for Cliff Tyrell an Artist in the Periphery / achael Minott​
Finding a 'celoured man': Reclaiming the Black Past / Norena Shopland​
Booker T. Washington in England, 1899 / Marika Sherwood​
The National Archives: Records in Focus / Kevin Searle​
Colonial Britain's Secret Surveillance of the People's Progressive Party of Guyana's Leaders in Britain in 1953 / Claudia Tomlinson​

​Reviews:
Black Resistance to British Policing / Claudia Tomlinson​
African Europeans: An Untold Story / Montaz Marché​
1973 and Me: The England V. West Indies Test Match and a Memorable Childhood Year / James Serieux​

History Matters Journal Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 2021)
Editorial​
Call for Papers: 2nd New Perspectives on the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain conference

History Matters​:
The African Diaspora in Britain / Hakim Adi​
Why did the Black Poor of London not support the Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme? / Michael Siva​
The African Times and Orient Review: A Pan-African and Pan-Asian Journal / Rey Bowen​
Black women and the Suffragette Movement / Emily McCulloch​
The impact of Imperialism and the media on our understanding of the NHS, and African contributions / Alex Douglas Bailey​
Militant Diaspora: Britain’s International African Service Bureau and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s / Kesewa John​​
The West Indian Federation and the founding of the West Indian Gazette / Ellie Kramer-Taylor​​​
History Matters Archive: The East London Black Women's Organisation

Book Reviews:
Hakim Adi: The History of African and Caribbean communities in Britain, 4th Edition (London, Hachette Children’s Group, 2020) / Natasha Howell​
Asher and Martin Hoyles, Before Windrush West Indian in Britain, (Hansib Publications, 2020) / Marika Sherwood​
Robin Bunce and Samara Linton: Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography by (Biteback Publishing Limited, 2020) / Claudia Tomlinson​​​
Gretchen H. Gerzina: Britain’s Black Past (Liverpool University Press, 2020 / Annabelle Gilmore​

History Matters Journal Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 2020)
Introducing History Matters

Why and how Black Lives Matter became so important to me / Marika Sherwood​
Researching Black British history in the Huntley Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives / Claudia Tomlinson​
African women and the British health service: Irene Ighodaro / Young Historians Project​
Dusé Mohamed Ali and the Tenor Roland Hayes / Rey Bowen​
A Focus on Black women in Eighteenth-century Britain / Montaz Marché​
Writing community-engaged histories: Rastafari in Britain / Aleema Gray​
The Mother of the Movement: Gerlin Bean / A S Francis ​​​

Call for Papers: 2nd New Perspectives on the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain conference