Black History Month in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Black History Month in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is a record of nearly 630,000 books, articles and essays relating to the British and Irish past, worldwide. Throughout Black History Month 2021, we have been running #FridayFind on the Institute of Historical...
Freedom Seekers in Restoration London

Freedom Seekers in Restoration London

Ahead of the publication of his new book Simon Newman explores the African and South Asian people who sought to escape enslavement in seventeenth-century London.   His name was Quamy. His Akan day-name suggests that he came from the region of West Africa that we...