Edited by David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, and Cecily Jones

Advisory Editors:
Professor Harry Goulburne (London South Bank University)
Professor David Killingray (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of London)
Professor James Walvin (University of York)
Baroness Lola Young

There are over 100 expert contributors.

"The editors of the new Oxford Companion to Black British History have done us a great service...They have come up with a volume which is gripping, full of extraordinary people, events and insights." - Joanna Blythman, Sunday Herald (Glasgow - Seven Days)

"[A] most useful compendium of our recent knowledge." - Journal of the Historical Association

"[There are] countless captivating facts in this tour de force of debunking and education...The OCBBH is packed with enough enlightenment and sheer serendipity to make one wish it were twice as long. Anyone who wants to understand what British is all about should buy a copy." - Margaret Busby, The Independent (Review)

"An essential reference book and the first of its kind...This is an informative and fascinating read, which every black household should have." - Pride Magazine

"A magisterial excavation of black Britain...every student in the country should read it." - Christina Patterson, The Independent

"Essential" - Graham Gendall Norton, History Today