Dr Tony Talburt

Senior Lecturer in Black Studies

Email:: antony.talburt@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Tony Talburt has over twenty years teaching experience and research interests in two main areas. The first is international trade and development in Africa and the Caribbean, and the second is African diaspora history.

He has lectured at four different universities in Ghana and the UK and is currently senior lecturer and course lead in Black Studies at Birmingham City University.

He is the author of seven books and several papers and book chapters in these two broad areas of specialisation. He was the project lead for the ‘Letters From Back A Yard Project’ which is a unique digital archive collection based on personal primary documents of Caribbean migrants to Britain during the period 1940 to 1989, launched in October 2023 at BCU.

Areas of Expertise

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Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Papers and Book Chapters

(2021) British Colonialism and the Development of Soccer in the Caribbean, Soccer in the Caribbean & Beyond: Progress and Challenges, Kingston, Jamaica, Arawak Publications, pp. 1-18.
(2021) Football and Social Acceptability in Victorian Britain: The Contrasting Fortunes of Andrew Watson and Arthur Wharton,History Matters Journal Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2021) https://www.historymatters.online/journal pp. 28-46.
(2020) Political Transformation and Development in Africa: Lessons from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Asemka:The Bilingual Literary Journal of the Faculty of Arts University of Cape Coast, No. 10, September, pp. 298-313.
(2020) with Cheron Byfield, Targeted Intervention in Education and the Empowerment and Emotional Well-Being of Black Boys, in Majors, R., Carberry, K., Ransaw, T., eds. The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 283-296.
2018) Fight for Survival: Lessons from the Pan African Resistance, in Johnson, A., and Joseph-Salisbury, R., eds. The Fire Now: Anti-racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence, London: Zed Books, pp. 150-161.
(2015) The Case of the Two Williams: Black Revolutionists in nineteenth Century Britain, in Andrews et al., eds. Blackness in Britain, London: Routledge Publishers, pp. 37-49.
(2015) ‘The North-South Dialogue in an Age of Exaggerated Development Ambitions’, in Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 42, No.3 pp. 271-284.
(2015) Andrew Watson: The Caribbean Football Pioneer of the Modern Game, in Charles, C. eds. Football in the Caribbean, Hertfordshire: Hansib Publishers.
(2012) The Lomé Caribbean Rum Rivalry for European Market Hegemony, in Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 61 No. 1 March pp. 139-157.

Books

(2017) Fight for Freedom: Black Resistance and Identity, Accra, Sub Saharan Publishers
(2017) Andrew Watson: World’s First Black Football Superstar, Hertfordshire, Hansib Publishers
(2017) (Co-edited) Through Sweat, Tears and Triumphs: Reflections on the African Presence in Walsall, Marcia M Publishing, West Bromwich, UK
(2012) The History on the Page: Adventures in Black British History, New Generation Publishers (one of Britain’s first children’s Black history Story book)
(2010) Rum, Rivalry and Resistance: Fighting for the Caribbean Spirit, Hertfordshire, Hansib Publishers
(2004) The Food of the Plantation Slaves of Jamaica, Canada, Trafford Publishers