Thursday's Child
A Life Between the Lines
$47.64
- Hardcover
- Release Date
5 January 2027
Summary
In Thursday’s Child, readers bear witness to the journey of Britain’s most prolific grassroots social historian, as it takes him through the back alleys of Peckham and Camberwell as a gay British youth in 1960s and 70s and beyond.
We enter the mind of a curious and often misunderstood child whose fidelity to family steers him through the turbulent days of teachers-for-bullies, but also anchors his future career as a veritable aesthete, activist, and champion of the people, ce…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781806750283 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1806750287 |
| Author: | Stephen Bourne |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 240mm |
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Stephen Bourne
Stephen Bourne has specialised in black British histories since 1991. He has written over 15 books, including the acclaimed Black in the British Frame, Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, and The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen and Women 1939-1945.
Stephen received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum Award for Literature for Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War. In 2017, he was awarded the Screen Nation Special Award and an Honorary degree from Southbank University for over 20 years in his field.
He is a regular contributor to BBC documentaries and has written for many publications, including The Voice, The Independent, BBC History Magazine, and History Today.
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