Printed
Primary
Nottingham Local Studies Library. There are numerous newspaper articles concerning events and people held at the library and need to be requested.
Some important ones are:
- Nottingham Journal 9 October 1773
- Nottingham Journal 8 August 1834
- Nottingham Review 30 May 1834 – obituary to George Africanus
- Guardian Journal 12 September 1956
- Nottingham Evening Post 25 August 1958
Secondary
- Nottingham Local Studies Library and Museum of Nottingham Life, Brewhouse Yard, have a number of books written by and about the black community, mainly in Nottingham.
- Members of the black ink writing group ‘Respect due’;
- Notts. Living History Archive – Millennium Awards, St Kitts and Nevis;
- Les Garrison, ‘Post war immigration and settlement of West Indians in Nottingham 1948-1968;
- Robert Murray, ‘Lest we forget – experiences of World War II West Indian Ex-Service Personnel’.
- St Anns – memoirs of coming to St Anns from the Caribbean and the early days in Nottingham.
- Louise Garvey, ‘Nursing lives of black nurses in Nottingham’, Millennium project, 2000
- Edited and compiled by Adraina Louis, ‘Trailblazers – a tribute to the early lives of Jamaicans now living in Nottingham through reminisces’
- Robert Wellesley Cole, ‘Kossoh town boy’ and ‘An innocent in Britain’.
- Paul Crooks, ‘Ancestors’, tracing family roots.
- NLSL. Leaflet ‘Tracing your African Caribbean Ancestors: some useful information.
- Nottingham City Libraries have a fact sheet ‘Tracing your African-Caribbean
Ancestors: some useful sources of information’. January 2006.
Talking History , No 5, October 2002, ‘Celebrating our Caribbean Heritage’; www.le.ac.uk/emoha - BBC History, September 2000, ‘We also served’ www.blackhistorymap.com Channel 4 series.
- NA. Has a display of material both written and pictures tracing the black presence in Nottingham.
- Black History Month Newsletter – http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/index.html
BHM is one of the most popular sites for searches around Black history and events.