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We asked our Twitter followers to share their book suggestions as the UK marks Black History Month

@GreenBlueAn

David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History is fascinating, and was a real eye opener for me.

@BGUHistory

Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 [by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall] was a benchmark for demonstrating the importance of intersectional approaches to big political history questions.

@Merlinia12

Not history in the strictest of senses, but Lemn Sissay’s [pictured] My Name Is Why [an account of his time in foster homes and quest for his Ethiopian identity].

@mrbwteach

Black Tudors: The Untold Story [the stories of 10 Africans living in Tudor and Stuart England] by Miranda Kaufmann.

@juliaesdietz

All that She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family -eepsake [about a single object passed down through three generations of black women, starting with an enslaved woman called Rose] by Tiya Miles.

@Sarahbu72

As a historian who knew nothing about the topic, Ayana D Byrd and Lori L Tharps’ Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America was truly educational.

@Wingman20351752

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer; or Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard; or The Stolen Prince: Gannibal, Adopted Son of Peter the Great, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and 'urope’s First Black Intellectual by Hugh Barnes; or Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California by Carlos Manuel Salomon.