Playing each of the tracks as Boakye unpacks their lyrics and story through concise and powerful commentary offers a fascinating insight into each song, and would be a wonderful and engaging way to raise discussions in a classroom setting. Very well put together with clear print which is easy to read (I struggle with very small print and large blocks of text but this is perfect.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Musical Truth is an insightful book to be read alongside some of the most iconic Black music of all-time. Boakye’s captivating and deeply insightful book explores the key moments in Black history through twenty-eight powerful songs from ground-breaking musicians, from Lord Kitchener to Stormzy. Using music from the past or even the near past as a teaching point can be a hit and miss affair if your pupils value their epoch above anything that preceded it. Each chapter is a song, encompassing calypso, reggae, roots, soul, lovers rock, dance hall through to pop and grime.Context is key, and the playlist from Musical Truth helps provide colour and atmosphere to this taut and cogent collection of social history essays. When you also consider that the same counter culture narrative is still being promoted in modern day life, remember Miley Cyrus twerking and simulating sex on stage to the view of thousands if not millions of impressionable teens and young children?

As the government’s national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the nation’s records for everyone to discover and use. I’ve just bought the hardback version because I want to have a physical copy which I can jump in and out of. This comprehensive introduction to Velazquez’s life and art includes a discussion of all his major works, and illustrates most of Velazquez’s surviving output of approximately 110 paintings.If you want to know a bit more about the music business and certain artists this should keep you intrigued.

It also covers positive changes and reasons for optimism with regards to racism, which helps to give the full picture of what it is like to be black and British. This thorough and inspiring selection of 28 songs carefully chosen by Jeffrey Boakye to represent Modern Black Britain isn’t just a must-listen playlist – it’s a history book in a league of its own, offering a unique new perspective on postcolonialism and exploring Black identity in the UK.An exploration of these themes in the visual arts reveals how architecture, sculpture and painting simultaneously shape, reflect, and document the culture of the time and place they were created. I would thoroughly recommend for lovers of music and/or history, particularly political and cultural history.

The artist’s greatest innovation – his unorthodox and revolutionary technique is explored in relation to the styles of certain of his most celebrated contemporaries both in Spain and beyond, including Titian and Rubens. For example, pupils might discuss the music that reflects their social history and circumstances with classmates, older siblings, or vertical tutor groups. From Kitch's Windrush optimism to Jords' visceral defiance via John Barnes' rap, this clever and accessible book connects the dots of UK Black history through music.Boakye sends out his address to children everywhere because, as the kid says at the start of ‘ Pass the Dutchie’, ‘ This generation rules the nation’. This accessible, lively and informative book is ideal for KS3 and KS4 aged pupils who want to explore modern British Black history through musical history. Meet Monsieur Benoit, who appeared suddenly in Paris with a scheme for telegraphing messages across the world (or, at least, across the room) by means of electricity and the telepathic power of snails, and actually raised the money to build this extraordinary machine.