Black History Month in the Learning Resource Centre, (Library)

 Black History Month

The month of October is Black History Month in the UK. Black History Month provides an opportunity not only to celebrate achievements but also offers a chance to raise awareness of the events from history and identifying lessons which can be learned from the past. 

In the Learning, Resource Centre, (Library), we are celebrating though a display of fantastic fiction and non-fiction books which are available to borrow from the library.

Black History Month Display in the Learning, Resource Centre, (Library).

At this time you cannot browse books in the Learning Resource Centre, (Library), you can request books. If you are a student at Peterborough College or University Centre Peterborough and you would like to read one of the books on our Black History Month display, please email: lrc@peterborough.ac.uk letting us know which book(s) you would like to borrow.

Books on display

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Natives Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Clear light of day by Anita Desai 

Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Love in a headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 

Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

12 years a slave by Solomon Northup

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The god of small things by Arundhati Roy

The boy with the topknot by Sathnam Sanghera

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Anita and Me by Meera Syal

The hate u give by Angie Thomas

Face by Benjamin Zephaniah

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