How British were the Caribbean soldiers of the First World War?
During Black History Month 2018, Samuel Ali challenges the idea that African and Caribbean soldiers served to support British troops, not as British troops in WW1 Read More
View ArticleBend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism
Assessing Bend It Like Beckham in the social and political context of Blairism, Sacha Ismail considers the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute at Heathrow and union bureaucracies’ longstanding failure to...
View ArticleBlack British histories didn’t start in 1948
Anti-Black racism and the hostile environment have a long history. For Tré Ventour Griffiths, the interwar years of 1919-1938 deserve more recognition in how we understand British history. Following...
View ArticleThe Nationality and Borders Bill evokes a chilling history for the UK’s East...
Clause 9 of the UK Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill exempts the government from giving notice of a decision to deprive a person of citizenship if they believe the person can apply for...
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Waiting for body parts: 22 years after the Srebrenica genocide, families...
by Mo Saqib Follow @mo_saqib I spent an evening with 31-year-old Ahmed Hrustanovic, an imam at Srebrenica’s main mosque. We sat with our iced teas on the balcony of Hotel Alic next door, with a lovely...
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‘What’s the word P*ki between friends?’
By Ciaran Thapar When I was seven, during a game of playground football in Claygate, a small town in Surrey, I fell over and bashed my knee; “P*ki, are you okay?” one of my teammates asked, his bony...
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Denial, shame and the Armenian Genocide
by Robert Kazandjian Follow @RKazandjian The identity I was constructing for myself collapsed around my L.A-Gear-clad feet when I was six or seven. My friend Kirilos arrived from Sudan, and joined our...
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The unbearable whiteness of history
by Jendella Benson Follow @JENDELLA Deciding that it is never too early to take the task of cultural reproduction seriously (see David Osa Amadasun’s article, “‘Black people don’t go to galleries’ –...
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Trustee of the Future: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
by Rahila Gupta Follow @RahilaG There has been widespread disappointment that the UN missed a trick in not electing a woman as its new secretary general. Given the scandals that have dogged it, general...
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Defending the Human Rights Act
by Tanzil Chowdhury Follow @tchowdhury88 The new Justice Secretary Liz Truss, and the third non-lawyer in a row to be appointed for the position, recently gave evidence to the House of Common’s Justice...
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The Indonesian anti-colonial roots of Islam in South Africa
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin The 17th century history of Indonesia and its anti-colonial figures brought Islam into the cultural life of South Africa, particularly for poor non-Muslims who lived...
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Slave narratives from Dutch colonisation in Indonesia
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin In 1657, five years after the start of Dutch colonialism in South Africa, an indigenous1 man, Doman, was sent to the Dutch “prize colony” of Batavia, present-day...
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Invasion and Resistance: Aboriginal and Maori fighters take up arms against...
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin While little attention is paid to black and Asian prisoners transported during the colonisation of Australia, there is even less information about local Aboriginal...
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A queer history: South Africa’s KhoiKhoi in Australia
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin The last man executed for sodomy in Australia in 1863 was an indigenous black South African soldier. He was one of hundreds of mainly African and Asian indigenous...
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Australia: Five Black men at the centre of its history
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin One of the African-Americans who endures in Australian history is William Blue. Blue was born in New York and said that he served with the English in the American...
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The African and Asian roots of White Australia
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin I found the story of the Africans and Asians in Australia’s history as a loose thread, buried in a throwaway sentence about an enslaved South African woman, Rachel...
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Gandhi: “No Indian is a coolie by birth”
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin The condition of being a ‘coolie’ found its greatest and most enduring expression in the movement that led to India’s independence and the spiritual-political leader...
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Coolie: A History
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin Coolie connotes somebody who performs thankless, backbreaking physical labour. The word is often explained as being part of the indentured labour system that...
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Thisgingnio: South Africa’s only Chinese woman prisoner
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin Although Chinese men made up the main contingent of prisoners that the Dutch East India Company (the VOC) held in South Africa, one Chinese woman prisoner has been...
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Chained and enslaved: Early Chinese prisoners in South Africa
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin In 1705 a gang of Chinese slaves were caught robbing the burghers at night. When interrogated, it was discovered that they escaped from the (Slave) Lodge by...
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