Colin Douglas Caribbean Historian
Colin Douglas Caribbean Historian
Want to know more about the contribution of the Caribbean in the second world war and other military conflicts?
The Caribbean
and the
Second World War
The Caribbean
and the
Second World War
"If you did not know how reliant Britain was during the Second World War on all it received from its Caribbean colonies, read this book! No Caribbean, possibly no victory!" - Marika Sherwood, Historian.
Who Is Colin Douglas?
Who Is Colin Douglas?
My deep interest in Caribbean history started many decades ago.
Whilst working in the Press Office of Lambeth Council in 1987, a journalist from the South London Press showed me a press cutting from 1948 about the arrival of the Empire Windrush.
We discussed doing an article on the Empire Windrush to coincide with the fortieth anniversary the following year.
This idea snowballed and I developed proposals for the council to run a full-blown anniversary celebration, including a Mayoral reception for Windrush passengers.
So an exhibition, essay writing competition, lectures and talks on Black history, media interiviews, and an oral history of West Indians who came over during the 1940s, 50s and 60s entitled ‘Forty Winters On’... read more
More About Colin
More About Colin
Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square
Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square
Endorsements
Endorsements
What Others Had To Say ...
What Others Had To Say ...
"If you did not know how reliant Britain was during the Second World War on all it received from its Caribbean colonies, read this book! No Caribbean, possibly no victory!"
Marika Sherwood
Author: Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
"Often Europe is seen as the only theatre of war that matters, and Europeans the only combatants worthy of historical investigation. Colin Douglas forthrightly challenges this prescription in an accessible and readable way"
Onyeka Nubia
Author: England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society (2019)
"A welcome addition to the growing number of books that focus on Black service personnel in wartime. The author has undertaken rigorous archival research with diligence, passion and an outstanding attention to detail"
Stephen Bourne
Author:Britain’s Black Servicemen and Women 1939-45
"This is a gripping account of twentieth-century world history, one that restores the Caribbean region to its rightful place in global geopolitics."
Vron Ware
Author:Military Migrants: Fighting for YOUR country (2012)
West Indian
Women At War
West Indian
Women At War
Based on original research and interviews, the book charts the obstacles placed in the way of the recruitment of Black women by a very reluctant war office.
Author(s): Ben Bousquet, Colin Douglas
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