Ian Duffield

Billy Blue: A Legend of Early Sydney

A colourful character who broke through taboos of background and position to become a folk hero of colonial Australia.

Published February 18 1987

Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade

Published December 1 1983

The Dawn of Empire

Ian Duffield finds much of interest in a new account of the beginnings of British imperialism

Published August 31 1981

Black People in Britain: History and the Historians

Ian Duffield looks at the invisibility of black people in histories of Britain.

Published August 31 1981

Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah

Ian Duffield argues that, more than any other African leader Kwame Nkrumah - together with the man whose examples and ideas gave him so much inspiration, Marcus Aurelius Garvey - was responsible for bringing black people into the mainstream of 20th-century history.

Published March 1 1981