Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War
()
About this ebook
'A powerful, revelatory counterbalance to the whitewashing of British history' - Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
In this updated edition of his acclaimed study of the black presence in Britain during the First World War, Stephen Bourne illuminates fascinating stories of black servicemen of African heritage. These accounts of the fights for their 'Mother Country' are charted from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the conflict's aftermath in 1919, when black communities up and down Great Britain were faced with anti-black 'race riots' despite their dedicated services to their country at home and abroad.
With unprecedented access to the wartime personal correspondence of the Jamaican siblings Vera, Norman and Douglas Manley, Bourne helps bring to light the day-to-day trials, tribulations and tragedies of life on the battlefield. The stories of servicemen like Arthur Roberts - Scotland's Black Tommy - and Trinidadian soldier and campaigner George A. Roberts sit alongside the experiences of people of African descent at home during the First World War.
These include a black police officer, munitions factory workers and even stars of the stage like Cassie Walmer. Informative and accessible, with first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls.
Stephen Bourne
Stephen Bourne is the author of several books on the subject of Black history including Black Poppies and Under Fire. He is a graduate of the London College of Printing and received a MPhil from De Montfort University. He is also an honorary fellow of London South Bank University.
Read more from Stephen Bourne
Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Poppies: The Story of Britain’s Black Community in the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnder Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlaying Gay in the Golden Age of British TV Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Black Poppies
Related ebooks
The Great War: Aftermath and Commemoration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSacred to the Memory of the Blairs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHorror of War: Letters Feb 1915 to May 1915 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBertram Cope's Year: Gay Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJan Smuts: A Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMain Street, New Hampshire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssex and Essex Junction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusmen in the Firing Line Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Dorking Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Matabele Campaign Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, emotion, and material culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAustralian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVagabond Heart Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uprooted: Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia Before 1915 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistoric Crimes and Justice in Burlington, Vermont Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Manual of Library Cataloguing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPearl Harbor: Before and Beyond: The Eyewitness Account of Steve Rula Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFamous, 1914–1918 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not Just Beer and Bingo! a Social History of Working Men's Clubs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dissenting Voices: Rediscovering the Irish Progressive Presbyterian Tradition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMetropolis at War: London: Biography of a Great City in Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJ. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDe Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Washington: The Indispensable Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Black Poppies
0 ratings0 reviews