Friday, July 30, 2010

Oxford Companion to Black British History: A happy outcome

I sent an e-mail to the publishers of Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007) who have collected together the marked-up corrections that were made between the hardback version of this book and the paperback and will post them out to me. Unfortunately they are not in electronic form, otherwise they could have been sent as an e-mail attachment.

Meanwhile I'm to submit the possible errors I've come across so far.

Oxford Companion to Black British History - 2008 reprint

The PB edition of the Oxford Companion to Black British History that I'm working through is a 2008 reprint, which states that corrections have already been incorporated.

The discrepancies I'm coming across will no longer be itemised by me. Instead I've just placed a question mark (in my own notes) alongside all other instances.

In reading Oxford Companion to Black British History (I'm on pg 250) I've come across many new names to track so it's a profitable read. Highly recommended.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Possible errors in Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007

1. pg 38 tells of Leyland, Charles and Roscoe. (article by Erin Somerville)
Shouldn't this be Leyland, Clarke and Roscoe?

2. pg 106 tells of the mother of Samuel Coleridge Taylor being Alice Hare Martin (article by Philip Herbert)
Shouldn't this be Alice Holman?

3. Martin Robison Delany (p128 - article by David Dabydeen & Shivani Sivagurunathan) shouldn't it be Martin Robinson Delany?

Monday, July 26, 2010

Currently reading The Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007) ed. Dabydeen, Gilmore & Jones