Black British Histories

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How has the writing of Black British histories functioned as both a form of historical analysis and a voice of radical oppositional politics? Caroline Bressey, Meleisa Ono-George, and Sadiah Qureshi – three of the editors of History Workshop Journal‘s new Virtual Special Issue on Black British Histories – discuss that question with Marybeth Hamilton in this episode of the History Workshop Podcast.

An extract from the 60ft-long Westminster Tournament Roll (1511). It shows six trumpeters, one of whom is Black and is almost certainly the musician John Blanke. Wikimedia Commons.

History Workshop Podcast · Black British Histories

Produced by Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton is an editor of History Workshop Journal and Coordinating Editor of History Workshop. She is the author of In Search of the Blues and When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, and she has written and presented several features for BBC Radio. She is currently writing a cultural history of Valerie Solanas’s 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol.

Meleisa Ono-George

Meleisa Ono-George is Associate Professor and Director of Student Experience in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. She specializes in the histories of ‘race’ and the Caribbean, and is interested in community-engaged research methodologies and anti-racist pedagogy. She tweets @meleisaono.

Caroline Bressey

Caroline Bressey is a Reader in Historical and Cultural Geography in the Department of Geography at UCL. Her research focuses upon the Black presence in Victorian England alongside Victorian anti-racism communities and the links between contemporary identities and the diverse histories of London as represented in heritage sites in Britain. She has co-curated exhibitions with the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of London Docklands and Tate Britain. She wrote about Celestine Edwards in her first monograph, Empire, Race and the politics of Anti-Caste (2013). The book won the Women’s History Network Book Prize 2014 and the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize in 2015. Her current research project is exploring the multi-ethnic working-class communities of Victorian England.

Sadiah Qureshi

Sadiah Qureshi is a historian of racism, science and empire. Her ﬁrst book Peoples on Parade (2011) explored the legacies of displayed peoples. She is currently writing a book on extinction for Allen Lane and teaches extensively on Black and South Asian British histories.

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