Roots in Britian & History Resources
Authored Publications
Alexander, Z. (2023). “’The Boy Who Deluded Him Away’ - the legacy of child trafficking in eighteenth- century Britain”, The Black Curriculum Blog.
Alexander, Z. (2020) “Who’s Black and Why?: a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race by Andrew Curran and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Book review)”, Women's History Review, 32:1, 156-158.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2022.2103895
The British Museum. Ingrid (Ziggi) Alexander CBE Biography.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG174388
Alexander, Z. (2006). “Peter Fryer’s Obituary”, The Guardian, November 11, p. 43.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/11/guardianobituaries.mainsection1
Alexander, Z. (1999). “Living a New Thing: Narratives of Exile and Return by Mary Chamberlain (Book review)”, History Workshop Journal, 47 (Spring), pp. 296-300.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4289618
Alexander, Z. (1992). “Black and British”, Books for Keeps, (November ), No. 77 p. 31.
Alexander, Z. and Knight, T. J. (eds.) (1992). The Whole Library Movement: changing practice in multi-cultural librarianship. Newcastle-under-Lyme: AAL Publishing.
Alexander, Z. (1991). “Slave Women in Caribbean Society: 1650-1838 by Barbara Bush (Book review)”, Feminist Review, 38 (Summer), pp.102-103.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395387
Alexander, Z. (1990). “Let It Lie Upon the Table: the status of Black women’s biography in the UK”. Gender & History, 2 (1), pp.22–33.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468- 0424.1990.tb00075.x
Alexander, Z. (1987). “Black Entertainers”, in: Beckett, J. and Cherry, D. (eds.) (1987). The Edwardian Era. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery from 12 November 1987 to 7 February 1988. Oxford: Phaidon Press, pp. 44-47.
https://www.academia.edu/100851141/The_Edwardian_Era
Alexander, Z. and Dewjee, A. (1987) “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor”, in: Beckett, J. and Cherry, D. (eds.) (1987). The Edwardian Era. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery from 12 November 1987 to 7 February 1988. Oxford: Phaidon Press, pp. 48-49.
https://www.academia.edu/100851141/The_Edwardian_Era
Alexander, Z. and Dewjee, A. (1987) “Black Politicians”, in: Beckett, J. and Cherry, D. (eds.) (1987). The Edwardian Era. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery from 12 November 1987 to 7 February 1988. Oxford: Phaidon Press, pp. 24-25.
https://www.academia.edu/100851141/The_Edwardian_Era
Alexander, Z. (1987). “Preface” in: Ferguson, M. (ed.) (1987). The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, related by herself. London: Pandora, pp. vii-xiii.
“Ziggi Alexander’s version of Olaudah Equiano the Superhero”, in Michael Rosen’s Everybody Here (1984) Channel 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgRwnhBo7KY
Peter Fryer in Conversation with Ziggi Alexander. (1984). Recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 30 May. British Library, C95/116.
Alexander, Z. and Dewjee, A. (1982). “Ira- an example to us all: who was Ira Aldridge?”, DUKANS - Dominica UK Association News Sheet, Issue No.1 (August), p. 12.
Alexander, Z. and Dewjee, A. (1982). “Black Contribution Ignored: Ira Aldridge Black Othello ‘White’ King Lear”, Dragon's Teeth, No 13 (Spring), pp. 8-9.
Alexander, Z. (1982). Library Services and Afro-Caribbean Communities. London: Association of Assistant Librarians.
Alexander, Z. (1981-1982). “Black Fighters Contribute in Britain’s Wars”. Black Insight, Issue No. 4, p.10.
Alexander, Z. and Dewjee, A. (1981). Roots in Britain: Black and Asian Citizens from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. 2nd ed. London: Brent Library Service.
Alexander, Z. (n.d.). “Ira Aldridge Black Actor in Exile”, Black Insight, p.9.
Alexander, Z. (1981). “Phillis Wheatley (c 1753-1784) Eighteenth Century Slave Poet”, Black Insight, issue no.3, November, p.5.
Secondary Publications and Programmes
Sands-O'Connor, K. (2022). British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour. Bloomsbury Press, pp. 92, 105-108, 119.
“Before and After the Eighteenth Century: The John Blanke Project (2020)”, in Gretchen H. Gerzina (ed.), Britain’s Black Past, Liverpool University Press, p.14.
Paisey, D. (2015) “Black English in Britain in the Eighteenth Century – for Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee” , BL Research Repository, pp1-11.
https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/articles/fd6aece9-f7d4-4242-b719-655ee3442082
Gundara, J. & Duffield, I. (eds.). (1992) Essays on the History of Blacks in Britain, Ashgate Publishing, p3; p.238.
Alexander, J. (1990). “The History of Mary Prince: a west Indian slave, related by herself... preface by Ziggi Alexander”, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 13, Nos. 1⁄2, p. 159.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277539590900829
“Black Achievement: Ziggi Alexander” (1984). Black Teens, no. 4, p.11.
Shepherd, C. (1983). “History on Our Side- Special Centre Page Feature. West Indian World (April 15), pp. 10-11.
Padmore, D. (1982) “Reviews: Library Services and [the] Afro-Caribbean Communities”, p. 29.
Hall, J. (1982). “Ziggi Alexander: Library Services and Afro-Caribbean Communities”. Assistant Librarian (October), p. 134.
Coaston, K. G. (1982). “Approaching African History”. West Indian World (February 12), p.2.
LBC Rice ‘n’ Peas (1982). Syd Burke interviews Ziggi Alexander about her doctorate- Black Women in Nineteenth Century Britain, role of Education and Libraries in disseminating Black History, the ATHAP conference chaired by Basil Davison, with Ziggi as keynote speaker, and the RiB exhibition booked until 1983. (January).
Matshikiza, J. (1981). “Black Like Us: Brent Librarian on the Race Trail”. Quarto (July), p. 2.
Here and Now (1981). “Roots in Britain: Black and Asian citizens from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II” – interview with Ziggi Alexander. ATV film shot on July 15 at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (broadcast August).
Caesar, I. (1981). “Britain’s Black History”. West Africa (June), pp. 1225-1226.
Venner, M. (1981). “The Blacks in Britain’s History”. New Equals (April), No. 16, p. 9.
“Blacks in Britain Through the Centuries” (1981). The New Chronicle (February 21), p. 16.
BBC Pebble Mill at One (1981). “Roots in Britain: Black and Asian citizens from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II”- interview with Ziggi Alexander. BBC film shot at Broadcasting Centre, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham (March ).
“Ingrid’s Date in USA” (1980). Wembley Observer (February 29), p. 15.
“Off to the US of A” (1980). Acton Gazette and Post (February 14), p. 2.
Smith, R. (1980). “400 Years of Blacks in Britain”. The Asian (December) vol. 111, No. 8, pp. 8-9.
Mackie, L. (1980).“Tapping the Deep Roots of Britain’s blacks”. The Guardian (December 27), p. 2.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vpuqcn4c
Kuya, D. (1980). “Roots in Britain”. Dragon's Teeth (December), vol. 2, No. 4, p. 3.
LBC AM Breakfast Programme (1980). Syd Burke interviews Ziggi Alexander regarding the RiB exhibition and her experience of the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, including her assessment that a Black History and Cultural Museum should be set up in the UK, as well as the establishment of Black History Month as they do every February in the USA. (October).
LBC Rice ‘n’ Peas (1980). Syd Burke interviews Ziggi Alexander about RIB exhibition and Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship tour (October).
“A positive swipe at apathy” (1980). Root (August), pp. 24-25.
BBC Radio London Black Londoners (1980). Ziggi Alexander, Audrey Dewjee and Cecil Gutzmore discuss the History of Black People in Britain (August).
BBC Radio 1 Studio 15 (1980). Adrian Love interviews Ziggi Alexander about Black British History /RiB exhibition (August).
LBC Rice ‘n’ Peas (1980). Syd Burke broadcasts from Harlesden Library Roots in Britain exhibition, hosted by Ziggi Alexander.
BBC Radio London Black Londoners (1980). Ziggi Alexander appeal for photos depicting Black people in Britain from 1550.
BBC Radio London Black Londoners (1982). Ziggi Alexander participates in panel discussion on Black British History.
BBC Radio London Black Londoners ( n.d. ). Alex Pascal interviews Ziggi Alexander on Black British History and ‘awakening awareness in people’.
Kaufmann, M. (2022) [Twitter] August 2, 2022.
https://twitter.com/MirandaKaufmann/status/1554496266788343808
C. Davis. (2020) [Twitter] October 16, 2020.
https://twitter.com/clivedavisuk/status/1317866118032297984
Michael Rosen (2017) [Twitter], February 7, 2017.
https://twitter.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/828910816678334464
Black British History (2016) [Twitter] November 7, 2016.
Select Citations
Women’s History Network (2011), references Ziggi Alexander on Mary Prince
Peter Fryer’s acknowledgements of the “Roots in Britain exhibition (1980)”, as well as Ziggi Alexander’s contribution to Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain (Pluto Press, 1984), p. x.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=J8rVeu2go8IC&q=ziggi#v=snippet&q=ziggi&f=false
Moira Ferguson’s acknowledgement of Ziggi Alexander in Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670- 1834 (Routledge, 1992).
Sukhdev Sandhu & David Dabydeen (1999), Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, Vol 1, Abstract, (Routledge).
Philippa Ireland, Material Factors Affecting the Publication of Black British Fiction (OUP, 2010).