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Stephen Bourne
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For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief Encounters examines performers, directors and a wide range of…
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Singer/actress Lena Horne during her MGM years.
Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood’s first Black movie star, and yet her name is often missing from film histories and encyclopedias. In The Black Garbo Stephen Bourne…
Mother Country
From her memorable role in Gone With the Wind to her last big screen appearance opposite Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast, the details of McQueen’s life are captured in…
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Although she was arguably the most influential female blues and jazz singer of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a major Black figure in 20th century theatre, cinema, radio…
Trade Population and Food - A Series of Papers on Economic Statistics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on…
Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning the 1920s through to the 1960s. This is a celebration of an extraordinary…
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, Bourne’s War to Windrush explores the lives of Britain’s immigrant community through the experiences of Black British women during…
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings…
A fully revised and updated edition of a vitally important piece of black British history
The trials and triumphs of Britain’s black community during the Second World War
The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers
A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12
During the Second World War, black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in fighting Nazi Germany and its allies.
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Offers an affectionate portrait of one of Hollywood’s most talented, charismatic and forgotten stars.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, author Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, screen, and radio career of this sophisticated African American actress and singer, who always defied categorization…
Elizabeth Campbell
Stephen Bourne (1791-1868) was a British civil servant who served in the West Indies between 1834 and 1848 with his daughter Elizabeth Campbell. This volume contains two essays by Campbell…
Stephen Eugene Bourne
A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its ‘golden age’ to the launch of the liberal Channel 4
