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THE British Association for Local History (BALH) is hosting its first-ever regional conference in Taunton on Saturday 22 October.

Why were the manifold contributions of the colonies not recognised in the many VE Day celebrations of 2020, asks Marika Sherwood. Writing for HistoryExtra, she explores the contributions of Black Britons, and people from Africa, India and the West Indies, during the Second World War…

At Boydell & Brewer we are proud to publish books that honour the richness & significance of black history, this black history month.

Importance Of Free Ration Supplies During Covid-19: Lessons From The 1918 Spanish Flu by Dhaval Patel - Jul 2, 2021 09:08 AM Vendor processes the ration card of an Indian woman at his Fair Price Shop. (representative image) (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Snapshot An important lesson that India learnt from the high-mortality 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was that while the virus itself was deadly, famine, hunger and malnutrition made the situation much worse. Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan Anna ...

All in all, well over 4 million black and Asian men were mobilised into the European and American armies, according to British Library research. Many were conscripted or coerced, particularly in Egypt and the colonies of east and west Africa, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This could involve threats and even kidnappings. In Egypt alone, it has been suggested by the historian David Killingray that three-quarters of the 327,000 men who served were recruited forcibly. Large n...

The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies By Dr Seán William Gannon TAGS On 27 August 1920, the RIC’s in-house propaganda freesheet, the Weekly Summary, warned that the newly-recruited Black and Tans (who had been arriving in Ireland since January) would make the country ‘an appropriate hell for those whose trade is agitation and whose method is murder’, and the orgy of reprisals against republicans and their communities that followed demonstrated that thi...