Free to view reads for Black History Month

Posted on 09/10/2025

Small Axe and the big tree of 2020
Roshi Naidoo
Why black stories matter – in mainstream history and in primetime broadcasting

The legacies of British slave ownership
Catherine Hall talks to Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
The legacies of British slave ownership continue to structure Britain’s present

When does a book launch become a meeting?
Leila Prasad
Sita Balani, Amardeep Singh Dhillon, Gail Lewis and Adam Elliott-Cooper in a discussion that takes off from Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race

Resisting racial police warfare through radical history
Jasbinder Nijjar
Southall remembers its history of resistance

Statues of empire: questions of race and power
Milly Williamson
Why did so many people in late nineteenth-century Britain want to build statues of slavers?

The colour of memory
John Siblon
On the exclusion of black African war service from the memorial landscape

‘Something real’: Black Bolshevism and the Comintern
Cathy Bergin
Black Bolsheviks in the US after the Russian revolution

At the crossroads of race and gender during the Spanish Civil War
Kathryn A. Everley
On Salaria Kea, the only African American nurse to serve during the Spanish Civil War

What is this ‘Black’ in Black Studies?: From Black British Cultural Studies to Black Critical Thought in UK Arts and Higher Education
Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma

‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?’: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and the Cultural Politics of Leadership
Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma

Experiences of an Activist and ZACF Anarchist-Communist in Soweto, South Africa, 2002-2012
Phillip Nyalungu

A monstrous ignorance: race, schooling and justice
Sally Tomlinson