PDF Monographs
Over the years I have prepared a number of talks and background notes. Some of these are available as History & Social Action Publications History Monograph as set out below.
No.1. Progressive Battersea: Radicalism and Socialism 1880-1914
Basis of talk at West London Local History Conference 21 March 2009.
No.2. Black Abolitionists and the North East
Basis of talk at Liberating Sojourn 2 Conference, Liverpool University, 23-25 April 2009.
No.3. John Archer and the Politics of Labour
Talk at Belonging in Europe Conference, organised by the Equiano Centre,
Department of Geography, University College London, 8 & 9 November 2007
No. 4 – Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Its Continuing Historical Influence
This monograph started off as a review of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Conference held in July 2008, and over the year has slowly expanded into a discussion on issues relating to the spread and management of pleasure gardens, their appeal, and their lasting legacy down to the modern day. It also attempts to integrate aspects of the black experience in Britain: Ignatius Sancho, Juba, William Wells Brown and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
No.5 - Sharing Knowledge - Discussion notes re-Universities and the Wider Historical Community
This paper was prepared for use in connection with the Arts & Humanities Research Council event held in Birmingham in 5 May 2009, which I attended on behalf of BASA.
No.6 - Black Emancipation and the Working Class. 1815-1838
Talk at HistoryTalk July 2009.
No.7 - From Exclusion to Political Control. Radical and Working Class Organisation in Battersea 1830s-1918
Revised talk at Public Record Office Conference "Voice of the Multitude", Radicalism and Unrest in Britain, 1790-1918. 1998.
No.8 - Battersea Friendly Societies
Paper used for talk at Sheffield University's Centre for Research into Freemasonry seminar, December 2002.
No. 9 - Negro Life in Freedom and in Slavery
A note about an 1851 theatre production by Henry Russell
No. 10 - West Country Black and Asian Heritage Information
No. 11 - Church Newspapers and Parish Magazines as a Source of Information
No. 12 - National Union of Empire Africans
No. 13 - Black and Asian Scottish Stories 1920-1941
No. 14 - Notes on Indians in Britain and India Connections
No. 15 - Organising in the Film Industry in the late 1930s
No. 16 - A Wimbledon Window on the Black & Asian Presence 1950-1953
No. 17 - William Jackson at Anti-Slavery Meeting in Lambeth 1862
No. 18 - Settlements & Social Action History Newsletters 2002-5
No. 19 - Lady Margaret Hall Settlement History and Challenges