Senior Consultants from Black History Walks recently worked with Teachers TV to write and present a mini documentary based on our walks for use in classrooms. The interactive video  is seperated into 4 short clips. Each clip presents numerous facts on African-British History which depart from the usual Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Mary Seacole trinity. Areas covered include: African influence on British architecture, African civilisations, The African king who was the richest man in the world in 1324, African Gold in the Bank of England, the Jamaican who planned to take over the country in 1820 and more 

Below are an extensive list of resources to assist teachers, pupils and the public to further explore the points raised in the videos. Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site

See all four of the Britains Black History videos (Obelisks ,Gold, Coffee and Black Britons) here www.teachers.tv/series/secondary-lesson-starts  or visit our channel www.youtube.com/blackhistorywalks

Websites

www.youtube.com/blackhistorywalks video clips relating to African/British history

www.beforetheslavetrade.com pictorial details of African civilisation prior to European invasion

www.100greatblackbritons.co.uk 100 great Black British people

www.whenweruled.com website to accompany 700 page book of same name on African civilisations

www.hogarth-blake.com  8000 year comparative Timeline of African and European history

www.black-history-month.co.uk extensive event listing website with book,dvd sales and articles

www.bigginupblackhistory.com teenagers interview Black and Asian WW2 veterans

www.bispublications.com 4 books on black scientists and inventors

www.theinvestigator.com motivational historian Andrew Muhammad

www.nubeyond.com community consultants on African issues, presentations, workshops, training

www.blackpresence.co.uk centuries of black presence in the UK

www.colourfulkids.co.uk  Multicultural resources for younger people and schools

www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers/secondary/wealth_of_africa.aspx 9 ancient African states

www.blackheritagetodayuk.co.uk listings sites with details of various cultural events 

DVD’s

500 Years Later directed by Owen  Alik Shahadah. Comprehensive overview of African history

Nubian Spirit directed by Louis Buckley. History of Sudan’s classical civilisation

Lion Mountains directed by Louis Buckley. History of Sierra Leone’s links to Britain

Son of Africa directed by Alrick Riley. Story of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

Life and Debt directed by Stephanie Black .How the IMF/World Bank made Jamaica  poor

Respect:  Biggin Up Black History. Black WW2 veterans interviewed by teenagers

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome with  Dr Joy de Gruy Leary. Psychological impact of slavery

Let Us Die Like Brothers by Commonwealth War Graves commission. Details of WW1 SS  Mendi disaster

Grove Roots by Octavia Foundation. Black British Civil Rights in West London 1960's/70's

Hidden Herstories Octavia Foundation. Black British Civil Rights

Coming to England with Floella Benjamin. Black British Civil Rights

Loving Hands the Sybil Phoenix Story directed by Lucia Tambini. Black British Civil Rights 1970s to present

Motherland directed by Owen Alik Shahadah award winning documentary of African views on future development

Books

Before the Slave Trade, Robin Walker. Pre European invasion African civilisations in pictures

Before the Slave Trade Learning Resource, Charmaine Simpson

When We Ruled, Robin Walker. 700 page comprehensive review of African civilisations

Black Mamba Boy, Nadifa Mohamed. Somalis serve in the WW2  merchant navy and come to Britain

Staying Power The History of Black People in Britain 211AD to 1981, Peter Fryer

Under One Flag, Erica Myers Davies: Details of the crucial roles of African, Asian and indigenous people of the British Empire  in  World War 2. Forewords by Prince Harry and Johnson Beharry, Victoria Cross

Black Victims of the Nazis, Zia N Reynolds. The life of Africans in Germany and German colonies 1904-1945

Maroon Teachers: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Enslaved Africans, Sandra Indrajit Gift

Olaudah Equiano the Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano published this book on his life in 1789

The Longman Companion to Slavery Emancipation and Civil Rights, Harry Harmer

Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild. Best selling book on Britains real role in slavery and its abolition

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney. Classic book detailing Europe’s dependence on Africa

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade since 1807, Marika Sherwood.

Life according to Mass Roy, Yvonne Archer. Story of post windrush Jamaican veteran in the Army

Trading Souls Europes, Transatlantic Trade in Africans, Prof Hilary Beckles & Prof Verene Shepherd

West Indian Women at War Ben, Bousquet & Colin Douglas. The only book on black women in WW2

Lest We Forget, Robert N Murray. Memoirs of Caribbean servicemen in WW2 Britain

Reconstructing the Black Image, Gordon de la Mothe. The Black image since the 1500’s

Black Scientists and Inventors books 1-4, Michael Williams excellent lists and notes of Scientists

Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush           www.golden-destiny.com History book for younger pupils