Black History Month

Black History Month Events

WMSF Library Resources 

Physical resources available for click and collect from the LRC and  arrange of carefully selected websites to link to.

"Black History"

"Black Fiction"

"Black Art"

Resources from the British Library 

Black Britain music and audio-visual.

You can find out more about what we have by using our online catalogues:

• You can search our main catalogue Explore the British Library for printed music, books and journals.

• For sound recordings and moving image, use the Sound and Moving Image catalogue.

• Use the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue for music manuscripts.

British Library Sounds gives access to some of our sound collection:

• The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Word and Sound

• ICA Talks, a large collection of talks and discussions held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1982-1993 and featuring leading writers, artists and filmmakers

• The Artists’ Lives collection, which includes an interview with Frank Bowling

• Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation, a British Library collaboration with the poet Amarjit Chandan

• Music recordings from Africa and other parts of the world

• Early recordings from Nigeria

• Evolving English Voice Bank and Evolving English Word Bank.

Additional Links

Archives and Research Centres:

• Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, London

• The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, University College London 

Primary Sources Online:

• Black and Asian people discovered in records held by the Manuscripts Section, Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section

• Black Europeans Online Gallery, British Library

• Black History Project references, Friends of Devon’s Archives

• International Genealogical Index: A Tool for Searching Parish Registers, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Slavery and Abolitionism Research Hub, Victoria & Albert Museum

• Sources for Black and Asian History [PDF], City of Westminster Archives Centre

• Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Emory University

Personal Websites and Blogs:

• Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Michael Ohajuru

• The Black Presence in Britain, Phil Gregory

• Dr Miranda Kaufmann’s History page [Africans in Britain 1500-1640], Miranda Kaufmann

• Jeffrey Green’s ‘PostCard’ [Documentation, images, and details that generally relate to the activities of black people in Britain], Jeffrey Green

Associations and Organisations:

• Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) 

Black History Month Podcasts

Here is a collection of 6 educational and inspirational podcasts specifically chosen for Black History Month.

Check them out here!