Oxford Brookes Library has thousands of ebooks available to read, wherever you are. But it’s not always easy to know where to start.

To complement your module reading lists, we’re gathering together great ebooks you may not have seen yet, on a range of themes.

Here are five ebooks on Black history in Britain, available to all Oxford Brookes students and staff:

• Staying power: the history of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer.
• The complexion of race : categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture by Roxann Wheeler.
• Black London: the imperial metropolis and decolonization in the twentieth century by by Marc Matera.
• A passage to England : Barbadian Londoners speak of home by John Western.
• Black Tudors : the untold story by Miranda Kaufmann.

This is only a small snapshot of Black History in Britain – please visit our History of Black, Asian and other ethic minorities in Britain reading list for even more resources!

Don’t forget to explore The Five Ebooks You Need on other topics!