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...
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...