Recs if you like Black Tudors: The Untold Story...

"But that's historically incorrect!"

No, it's not. You just didn't learn all of history. (A.k.a. not all period dramas need to be all-white all-straight etc. and we have the sources to prove it)

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Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (Volume 91) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)

Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

books about a really niche topic in history

by captcasket

30 books

i love when historical nonfiction is hyperspecific so

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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Black British history

by paranoid_android

28 books

A collection of histories, memoirs, and historical fiction in anticipation of Black History Month here in the UK. Credit to blackhistorymonth.org.uk for some of these suggestions. If you have any recommendations, leave a comment.

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