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Reading and references 

 

Please see below for a comprehensive list of the material and literature used in each blog entry.

 

Relevant work is listed thematically: Overviews, Race, Activism, and Law and Order. 

Overviews

A summary of the St Pauls disturbance (1980).

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  1. Simon Peplow, Race and Riots in Thatcher’s Britain, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019)
    Chapter 1: 'No other way to make their points of view known'? St Pauls, Bristol, 2 April 1980.

  2. Martin Kettle and Lucy Hodges, Uprising! The Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities, (London: Pan Books, 1981)
    Chapter 1: 'The forerunner: Bristol 1980' (pp.23-39)

  3. Eugene Byrne, 'St Pauls 1980: Was it a riot or an uprising?', Bristol Post, April 2nd 2020.

  4. Madge Dresser and Peter Flemming, Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City 1000-2001, (Phillimore, 2007)
    Chapter 11: 'Ethnic Diversity in the 20th Century'
    Page 140-148 discusses post-war immigration to Britain

  5. Graham Stewart, Bang! : a history of Britain in the 1980s, (Atlantic Books, 2013) pp.79-81
     

Colston, his statue and dual legacy.

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  1. Saima Nasar, ‘Remembering Edward Colston: histories of slavery, memory, and black globality’, Women's History Review, 29, (2020)

  2. Colston’s benefactions to British institutions, celebrated during a sermon in 1783 at All Saints Church, Bristol. Obtained from Gale Primary Sources. 
    Source entitled: "A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All-Saints-Church, Bristol, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1783, being the anniversary of the nativity of the late Edward Colston, Esq; Published at the Particular Request of the Society. To which is added, a catalogue of his public benefactions. By William Embury Edwards, B. A. Of Oriel College, Oxford, and Lecturer of All-Saints, Bristol"

  3. Roger Ball, Edward Colston Research Paper #1, Bristol Radical History Group,
     

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Race

Bristol’s legacy of transatlantic enslavement.

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  1. Writing About Slavery? Teaching About Slavery?
    National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP, Culpeper branch)

  2. David Richardson, ‘Slavery and Bristol's ‘golden age’, Slavery & Abolition, 2 (2011) p.36

  3. Olivette Otele, 'Bristol, Slavery and the politics of representation: The Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum', Social Semiotics, 22 (2012) p.156.

  4. Tony Forbes, ‘Sold Down the River’, 1999, The M Shed, Bristol

 

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Racism in Britain and the Bus Boycott in Bristol.

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  1. Anthony Richmond, Migration and Race Relations in an English City: a study in Bristol, (London: Oxford University Press, 1973) p.42

  2. Robert Miles, ‘Nationality, Citizenship, and Migration to Britain, 1945-1951’, Journal of Law and Society, 16 (1989) p.426

  3. John Solomos, Race and Racism in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p.52

  4. Andrew Pilkington, Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) pp.39-43

  5. John Solomos, Race and Racism in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p.56

  6. ‘Industrial Colour Bar’, Tuesday 7th May 1963, published in London by The Times (obtained from Gale primary sources).

  7. Madge Dresser, Black and White on the Buses: The 1963 Colour Bar dispute in Bristol, (October 1986)

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Activism 

Bristol’s anti-racism struggle: a local and global history.

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  1. Saima Nasar, ‘Remembering Edward Colston: histories of slavery, memory, and black globality’, Women's History Review, 29, (2020) p.1222

  2. Black Lives Matter | About

  3. Black Lives Matter | About

  4. Saima Nasar, ‘Remembering Edward Colston: histories of slavery, memory, and black globality’, Women's History Review, 29, (2020) p.1222

  5. Elizabeth Williams, The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015) p.3 

  6. Elizabeth Williams, The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015) p.3 

  7. Elizabeth Williams, 'Anti-Apartheid: The Black British Response', South African historical journal, 64 (2012) p.687

  8. The AAM archives. Protest on June 2nd, 1984

  9. TV Eye, 10th April 1980 – broadcasted by Denis Tuohy

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The ‘politics’ of protest.

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  1. Madge Dresser, ‘Obliteration, contextualisation or ‘guerrilla memorialisation’? Edward Colston’s statue reconsidered.’

  2. Astrid Rasch and Stuart Ward, ‘Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019)
    Chapter 13: Olivette Otele, ‘The Guerrilla Arts in Brexit Bristol’ p.133-142

  3. Rodger Ball, ‘The Edward Colston ‘corrective’ plaque’, Bristol Radical History Group

  4. Martin Kettle and Lucy Hodges, Uprising! The Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities, (London: Pan Books, 1981) p.11

  5. Martin Kettle and Lucy Hodges, Uprising! The Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities, (London: Pan Books, 1981) p.16

  6. Simon Peplow, ‘A Tactical Manoeuvre to Apply Pressure’: Race and the Role of Public Inquiries in the 1980 Bristol ‘Riot’, Twentieth Century British History, 29 (2018) p.131

  7. Stuart Hall, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, (London: Macmillan, 1978) p.390

  8. TV Eye, 10th April 1980 – broadcasted by Denis Tuohy. 

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Law and Order

The aftermaths and trials.

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  1. 'Updates as Colston 4 are due in court in Bristol’, by Tristan Cork in Bristol Live.

  2. Virtual support rally held for the Colston 4, By Lowie Trevena in the B24/7

  3. Priti Patel: Toppling Edward Colston statue was 'utterly disgraceful', Sky news 

  4. ‘Trouble hits St Paul’s riot hearing’, Dennis Johnson, The Guardian (1959-2003), London (UK), 24 Oct 1980: 3.

  5. ‘Trouble hits St Paul’s riot hearing’, Dennis Johnson, The Guardian (1959-2003), London (UK), 24 Oct 1980: 3.

  6. Bristol riot charges dropped for sake of racial harmony Singer, Angela The Guardian (1959-2003); Apr 7, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer pg. 26

  7. Bristol riot charges dropped for sake of racial harmony Singer, Angela The Guardian (1959-2003); Apr 7, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer pg. 26

  8. ‘Countering Colston comment on the first hearing of the Colston 4’, By Randell Brantley in Bristol Radical History Group

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