Kevin Searle
- Roles
- Author
- Researcher
Modern domestic records specialist
About
Kevin Searle is a sociologist and historian.
Research activity
Kevin holds a BA (Hons) degree in Race and Culture and Third World and Development Studies, a PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training, and a PhD in Sociological Studies.
His PhD was a life-story study of Yemeni former steelworkers who migrated to work in the Sheffield steel industry after the Second World War. His most recent publication is the chapter, ‘Before Notting Hill: The Causeway Green “rioting” of 1949,’ in the book, Black British History: New Perspectives.
Searle has previously worked as a research associate at the University of Birmingham, on the Birmingham Stories project, and as a teacher of sociology at a number of inner-city schools and colleges in London.
He sits on the editorial board of the journal History Matters: Presenting the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain.
Publications
- Searle, K R (2019) ‘Before Notting Hill: The Causeway Green “rioting” of 1949’ in Adi, H (ed.) Black British History: New Perspectives London: Zed
- Searle, K R (2013) ‘“Mixing of the Unmixables”: The 1949 Causeway Green “riots” in Birmingham’ Race and Class 54(3) pp. 44-64
- Searle, K R (2010) ‘From Farms to Foundries: An Arab Community in Industrial Britain’ Oxford: Peter Lang