War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939 to 1948, Paperback - Stephen Bourne

DescriptionCommemorating the 70th anniversaries of the arrival of the Empire Windrush on June 22, 1948 and the birth of the National Health Service...

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

During the Second World War, black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in figh...

A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

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

Based on interviews and archival research, this book explores how media is implicated in Black women's lives in Britain. From accounts of twentieth...

DescriptionThe Windrush scandal is one of the most shocking political failures of modern times. Thousands of innocent people, targeted by the gover...

This book contains 200+ Mirrorpix Archive photographs featuring some of the many roles undertaken in women in Britain during the six years of the g...

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The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'. In this title, the author presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the...

In this first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career, Judith Bourne tells of her fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and ...

For the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939, a new history of the 'Phoney War'

Reducere. Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is often missing from film histories and encyclopedias...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from o...

This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher educ...

Presents numerous personal experiences of the war

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in world war 11. Stories from o...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading... During the poverty-stricken years of the Gre...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading...During the poverty-stricken years of the Great Depressio...

The first book on a British effort to save lives, as important as the well known kindertransport, but this was only men - their wives and children ...

The Good Immigrant meets Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, SAFE is an anthology of writing by Black British men, edited by Most...

The book looks at the effects of war on the City of London, including the damage caused by the 8 months of the Blitz between September 1940 and May...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

Reducere. Elizabeth Blackwell's autobiographic history of the brave accomplishments of those who made the USA's medical profession accessible to women is ill...

The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazersPublisher: The ...

Reducere. Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1946 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspec...

Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

Wide-ranging, stimulating reassessment of the changing role of women in modern warfare, focuses on the parts women played in the world wars.

Reducere. When World War II broke out, Dan Ranfurly was dispatched to the Middle East with his faithful valet, Whitaker. These are the diaries of his young w...

A history of the Kosova Liberation ArmyPublisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): James PettiferIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNu...

In-depth new history of the nineteenth-century wars fought between the British and the Asante people of West Africa.Illustrations: 30 black and whi...

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Reducere. Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Pos...

Reducere. Kaia Alderson's debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women's ...

Reducere. What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Steven E. (UCLA Center for Middle East Development, USA) ZippersteinIllustration(s): 55 Halftones, black ...