{"title":"Black History Month 2026 Book List","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"978-1529065602-david-olusoga-black-and-british","title":"David Olusoga: Black and British: A Forgotten History","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Olusoga joined the Migration Museum as a trustee in 2018 and his books and documentaries are essential for anyone who feels like their education may have been lacking in representation of Black histories (which is probably most of us).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalised. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnflinching, confronting taboos, and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e640 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40160046907599,"sku":"9781529065602","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/8.jpg?v=1745424506"},{"product_id":"978-0755307500-andrea-levy-small-island","title":"Andrea Levy: Small Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40765788455119,"sku":"9780755307500","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/small_island.jpg?v=1745424422"},{"product_id":"978-1408894996-benjamin-zephaniah-refugee-boy","title":"Benjamin Zephaniah: Refugee Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife is not safe for Alem. His father is Ethopian, his mother Eritrean. Their countries are at war, and Alem is welcome in neither place. So Alem is excited to spend a holiday in London with his father - until he wakes up to find him gone. What seems like a betrayal is in fact an act of love, but now Alem is alone in a strange country, and he must forge his own path ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly written and with a real ear for dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's novels for young adult readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40765791961295,"sku":"9781408894996","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/refugee_boy.jpg?v=1745424418"},{"product_id":"978-1787381919-olivette-otele-african-europeans","title":"Olivette Otele: African Europeans: An Untold History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs early as the third century, St Maurice―an Egyptian―became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as ‘Africans’ and those called ‘Europeans’. Yet Africans and African Europeans are still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. She uncovers a forgotten past, from Emperor Septimius Severus, to enslaved Africans living in Europe during the Renaissance, and all the way to present-day migrants moving to Europe’s cities. By exploring a history that has been long overlooked, she sheds light on questions very much alive today―on racism, identity, citizenship, power and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfrican Europeans is a landmark account of a crucial thread in Europe’s complex history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Guardian Best Book of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA History Today Book of the Year, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Waterstones Best Book of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"hardcover","offer_id":41809262739663,"sku":"9781787381919","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/white-African-Europeans.jpg?v=1745424226"},{"product_id":"9781846270727","title":"Andrea Stuart: Sugar in the Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith George Ashby's first crop, the cane revolution was underway and would go on to transform the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing a thriving worldwide industry that bound together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers. As it grew, this sweet colonial trade fuelled the Enlightenment and financed the Industrial Revolution, but it also had more direct, less palatable consequences for the individuals caught up in it, consequences that still haunt the author's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this unique personal history, Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own family's involvement with sugar through successive generations, telling a story of insatiable greed and forbidden love, of abuse and liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e336 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"paperback","offer_id":41809263395023,"sku":"9781846270727","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/white-sugar-in-the-blood.jpg?v=1679706029"},{"product_id":"black-artists-that-changed-the-world-sharna-jackson","title":"Black Artists Shaping the World: Sharna Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by award-winning Black British children’s author Sharna Jackson, Black Artists Shaping the World celebrates the diversity of work being produced today by Black artists from around the globe, introducing young readers to twenty-six contemporary artists from Africa and of the African diaspora.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharna Jackson’s experience as a children’s author who has worked for over a decade in the cultural sector, both at Tate in London and at Site Gallery in Sheffield, is combined here with the curatorial expertise of Dr Zoé Whitley, Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery and co-curator of the landmark Tate exhibition ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’. Their book features artists working in a variety of media from painting, sculpture and drawing to ceramics, installation art and sound art. Artists featured include British Turner Prize-winning painters Lubaina Himid and Chris Ofili; renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi; Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh; Sudanese painter Kamala Ibrahim Ishag; Kenyan-British ceramicist Magdalene Odundo; African-American artists Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley; performance artist Harold Offeh; and moving image artist Larry Achiampong.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result is a refreshingly contemporary celebration of Black artists at work today that will serve as inspiration to a new generation of aspiring young artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 62 illustrations in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e144 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"hardcover","offer_id":42131421298895,"sku":"9780500652596","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/81uFr4bRuEL._SL1500.jpg?v=1789653435"},{"product_id":"settlers-journeys-through-the-food-faith-and-culture-of-black-african-london-jimi-famurewa","title":"Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London Jimi Famurewa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Ben Judah, Journalist and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is London: Life and Death in the World City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without knowing the story of how it came to be?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a story that begins not with the 'Windrush Generation' of Caribbean immigrants to Britain, but with post-1960s arrivals from African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Some came from former British colonies in the wake of newfound independence; others arrived seeking prosperity and an English education for their children. Now, in the 2020s, their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of creativity and cultural production stretching from Lambeth to Lagos, Islington to the Ivory Coast. Daniel Kaluuya and Skepta; John Boyega and Little Simz; Edward Enninful and Bukayo Saka – everywhere you look, across the fields of sport, business, fashion, the arts and beyond, there are the descendants of Black African families that were governed by many of the same immutable, shared traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this book Jimi Famurewa, a British-Nigerian journalist, journeys into the hidden yet vibrant world of African London. Seeking to understand the ties that bind Black African Londoners together and link them with their home countries, he visits their places of worship, roams around markets and restaurants, attends a traditional Nigerian engagement ceremony, shadows them on their morning journeys to far-flung grammar schools and listens to stories from shopkeepers and activists, artists and politicians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut this isn't just the story of energetic, ambitious Londoners. Jimi also uncovers a darker side, of racial discrimination between White and Black communities and, between Black Africans and Afro-Caribbeans. He investigates the troublesome practice of 'farming' in which young Black Nigerians were sent to live with White British foster parents, examines historic interaction with the police, and reveals the friction between traditional Black African customs and the stresses of modern life in diaspora. This is a vivid new portrait of London, and of modern Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished 13 Oct 2022\u003cbr\u003eFormat Hardback\u003cbr\u003eEdition 1st\u003cbr\u003eExtent 320\u003cbr\u003eImprint Bloomsbury Continuum\u003cbr\u003eDimensions 216 x 135 mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42958469890255,"sku":"9781472991577","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42958469923023,"sku":"9781472991560","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/81E6M6wDx-L.jpg?v=1745424128"},{"product_id":"tony-warner-black-history-walks-vol-1","title":"Tony Warner: Black History Walks Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA collection of guided tours throughout London \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack History Walks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Southwark to Westminster,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack History Walks\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etakes you through historical sites, highlighting the embedded history of Black Britons around the city of London and its fundamental links to Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this guide, you'll get:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWalking tours\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethat can be self-walked or accompanied with the official Black History Walks tours;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eunderstanding\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eof the way Black history has shaped modern British culture;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003econnection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewith the African roots of historic places in the capital.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack History Walks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an essential read for anyone wishing to understand the history and culture of one of the oldest and most influential metropolises in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher ‏Jacaranda Books (27 Oct. 2022)\u003cbr\u003ePaperback ‏450 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718868209871,"sku":"9781913090265","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/products\/71kmVv9XdrL.jpg?v=1745424085"},{"product_id":"this-thread-of-gold-hardcover-new","title":"This Thread of Gold Hardcover: A Celebration of Black Womanhood NEW","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWeaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThroughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Alice Walker to Beyoncé, from Audre Lorde to Doreen Lawrence, from Aretha Franklin to Zendaya: Catherine Joy White charts her own journey to self-discovery through the prism of extraordinary women to create a beautiful tapestry of Black joy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking on the legacy of Angela Davis's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWomen, Race and Class,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAudre Lorde's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSister Outsider\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand Saidiya Hartman's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWayward Lives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Thread of Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings new life to the history of Black women's resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42880748847311,"sku":"9780349702599","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/61z8o0U9Y3L._SL1000.jpg?v=1745423983"},{"product_id":"dispatches-from-the-diaspora-from-nelson-mandela-to-black-lives-matter-paperback","title":"Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gary Younge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An outstanding journalist and chronicler.’\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fused with truth, power and illumination.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID LAMMY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘Every citizen – and citizen journalist – should have a copy.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLEMN SISSAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘In short, it is a public service.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eNESRINE MALIK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama’s victory, entering New Orleans days after hurricane Katrina or interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy. He has witnessed how much change is possible and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDispatches from the Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to ‘imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. And then fight for it.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Younge\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he isan editorial board member of The Nation magazine. He is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Jhalak Prize). He lives in London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 March 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e352 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43046865010895,"sku":"9780571376827","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/81P9xwm1L4L._SL1500.jpg?v=1745423945"},{"product_id":"how-to-say-babylon-a-new-jamaican-memoir-of-2023-hardcover","title":"How To Say Babylon: A new Jamaican memoir Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Vivid and empowering'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eGILLIAN ANDERSON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A stunning book’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Dazzling’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTARA WESTOVER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry. But as Safiya’s imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders, her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father. Soon she realised that if she was to live at all, she had to find some way to leave home. But how?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Say Babylon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an unforgettable story of a young woman’s determination to live life on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003esummer read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I adored this book … Unforgettable’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eELIF SHAFAK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Electrifying’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘To read it is to believe that words can save’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMARLON JAMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Breathless, scorch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eing’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Safiya Sinclair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOn Sale\u003c\/b\u003e: May 23, 2024\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e129x198mm\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e352 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43085011321039,"sku":"9780008491284","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/71yztlq4pqL._SL1500.jpg?v=1745423929"},{"product_id":"bright-stars-of-black-british-history-hardcover","title":"Bright Stars of Black British History Hardcover","description":"","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43085013942479,"sku":"9780500652923","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/91Asp3r7t1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1745423928"},{"product_id":"tell-me-something-i-dont-know-a-life-of-love-passion-purpose-and-success-allyson-williams","title":"Tell Me Something I Don't Know: A Life of Love, Passion, Purpose and Success Allyson Williams","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis autobiography describes Allyson’s happy life as a child and teenager in Trinidad, and then her subsequent move to London, having answered the call to help rebuild the motherland. You will be drawn in to the passionate and sensitive way in which she handles the racist taunts and was never defeated by them, a far cry from her idyllic childhood. Allyson will describe her mother’s huge disappointment when she changed her plans to migrate to New York. Instead, she met and married her husband Vernon and they had two children. Allyson wanted to share the Caribbean style family values such as respect, high moral standing and discipline, which she learnt from her parents and elders. These qualities she lovingly passed on to her children. Allyson enjoyed a multifaceted life experience that may inspire others. She describes the dynamics of juggling a busy and constantly evolving midwifery career, with marriage and family life. This book has helped Allyson to realise a dream of writing and sharing skills and strategies what worked for her, which in turn will inform someone’s life in a positive and confident way. “Tell me something I don’t know” is a celebration of resilience and triumphs over adversity.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43336513552591,"sku":"9781913905798","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55647936315773,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/9781913905798.jpg?v=1745423913"},{"product_id":"the-prince-and-the-plunder-how-britain-took-one-small-boy-and-hundreds-of-treasures-from-ethiopia","title":"The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn Sissay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1868, British troops charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, stormed the citadel of its monarch Tewodros II and grabbed piles of his treasures and sacred manuscripts. They also took his son – six-year-old Prince Alamayu – and brought the boy back with them to the cold shores of England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, Andrew Heavens tells the whole story of Alamayu, from his early days in his father’s fortress on the roof of Africa to his new home across the seas, where he charmed Queen Victoria, chatted with Lord Tennyson and travelled with his towering red-headed guardian Captain Speedy. The orphan prince was celebrated but stereotyped and never allowed to go home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also follows the loot – Ethiopia’s ‘Elgin Marbles’ – and tracks it down to its current hiding places in bank vaults, museum store cupboards and a boarded-up cavity in Westminster Abbey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA story of adventure, trauma and tragedy, The Prince and the Plunder is also a tale for our times, as we re-examine Britain’s past, pull down statues of imperial grandees and look for other figures to commemorate and celebrate in their place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55267052257661,"sku":"9781803996509","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/6191Kn1AapL._SL1000.jpg?v=1745423795"},{"product_id":"grandma-s-locs-karen-arthur","title":"Grandma’s Locs: Karen Arthur","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrandma has beautiful locs. Whenever she comes to visit, she wears them in so many wonderful ways!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes they playfully peep out from under her vibrant headscarves. Sometimes they coil into plump bunches that crown her head. Always, they are soft and warm and full of Grandma’s love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe glorious debut picture book by podcast host Karen Arthur, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGrandma’s Locs\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a fun, imaginative and colourfully illustrated tale that celebrates the beauty of natural Black hair, and the love that is shared between family. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e26.5 x 1 x 25.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e32 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReading age 5 - 7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55851101815165,"sku":"9781849768177","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/81tK9ZB0rgL._SY342.jpg?v=1745423773"},{"product_id":"when-starts-are-scattered","title":"When Stars are Scattered","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honour-winning creator of Roller Girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It’s an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author\/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 14 April 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e264 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading age 9 - 12\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55851101618557,"sku":"9780525553908","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/41j4Qje0sTL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1745423771"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-bassline-500-years-of-black-british-music","title":"Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of Black British music is a five-hundred-year journey from the court of King Henry VIII to the ‘Ends’ of South London; from Africa to the Caribbean to the UK and back; from subterranean shebeens and church halls to royal command performances and sold-out stadiums; and from outsider influence to domestic chart domination. It is a story that grapples with the slave trade, the prejudice of unwelcoming institutions and the bias of ignorance while ultimately celebrating the creativity and perseverance of the pioneers and today’s digital age innovators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished alongside the major British Library exhibition, Beyond the Bassline is a landmark volume of essays, features and interviews which traces a new timeline underpinned by the Black artists and musicians who, over centuries, have shaped Britain’s unique and globally significant musical culture. Illustrating this vibrant history which traverses musical genres from classical, gospel and jazz through to reggae, jungle and Afrobeats are more than three hundred images including contemporary and classic photographs, paintings, posters and record sleeves. Introduced by the exhibition’s curators, Dr. Aleema Gray and Mykaell Riley, and edited by Paul Bradshaw, music journalist and publisher of Straight No Chaser magazine, Beyond the Bassline tells its essential story through specially commissioned pieces from musicians, composers, DJs, writers and photographers, as well as important voices in politics and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors\/Contributors include: Tej Adeleye • Christian Adofo • Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. • Stephen Bourne • Garth Cartwright • Monique Charles • Dalia Al-Dujaili • Tracy Durrant • Juliet Fletcher • Vivien Goldman • Julian Grant • Linton Kwesi Johnson • Anthony Joseph • Julian Joseph • Cassie Kinoshi • Kevin Le Gendre • Charis McGowan • Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm • Tony Montague • Malik Al Nasir • Sharon O’Brien • Michael I. Ohajuru • Lisa Amanda Palmer • Amar Patel • Ade Egun Crispin Robinson • Angus Taylor • Chardine Taylor-Stone • Andy Thomas • Julia Toppin • Ayanna van der Maten McCalman • Derek Walcott • Richard Williams • Val Wilmer • Anthony Wright • Benjamin Zephaniah\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56949568078205,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/51vHRFkcYIL._SY445_SX342_ControlCacheEqualizer.jpg?v=1758205035"},{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-nbsp-by-christina-sharpe","title":"Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe","description":"\u003cp\u003eA singular achievement, Christina Sharpe’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that cumulatively gather meaning, artifacts from the past – both public ones and the poignantly personal – are skilfully interwoven with present-day realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the indelible presence of the author’s mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. ‘I learned to see in my mother’s house,’ writes Sharpe. ‘I learned how not to see in my mother’s house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words.’ Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, a chorus of voices and experiences is summoned to the page. Sharpe practices an aesthetic of ‘beauty as a method’, collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a ‘Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness’, and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\"\u003e‘Christina Sharpe’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\"\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealtered the way I understand much of the world around me.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Moss,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW144160965 BCX8\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW144160965 BCX8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR AND A\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished April 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e9781914198144\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Migration Museum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57883836514685,"sku":"9781914198144","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5062\/6255\/files\/81bmpmR--PL._SL1500.jpg?v=1772453202"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.migrationmuseum.org\/collections\/black-history-month-2026-book-list.oembed","provider":"Migration Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}