List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Marlene Smith Introduction: Making Black Histories, Stories, and Memories Visible I - 'Gathering and Reusing' by Lubaina Himid Part 1: Visualising the 'Politics of Representation' Chapter 1: 'Humour, fury, celebration, and optimism': A Politics of Protest and Cut-Out Men (1981-85) Chapter 2: 'Rituals of reclaiming lost artefacts, refusing oppression and looking for ancestors' in Heroes and Heroines (1984) Chapter 3: 'They who document / paint the History hold the Power': Retelling, Reimagining and Recreating New Narratives of Black Heroism in Toussaint I (1988) and Toussaint II (2002) II - 'Telling Invisible Stories' by Lubaina Himid Part 2: Resistance, Reclamation and Revolutionary History Painting Chapter 4: No more 'Silent Victims': Agency, Authority and Artistry in the 'Black Woman's Story' in Revenge (1992) Chapter 5: 'Lost hope, abandoned lives, decimated civilisations': Sites of 'Cultural Struggle' in Beach House (1995) Chapter 6: 'Safety and danger and how to tell the difference': Suffering, Struggle and Survival in Plan B (1999) III - 'Return to the Operatic' by Lubaina Himid Part 3: Past, Present and Future Artistry, Activism and Agency Chapter 7: Imaging and Imagining 'Lost Lives of the Black Diaspora' in Venetian Maps (1997) Chapter 8: Reimaging and Reimagining an Absent-Presence in Cotton.com (2003) Chapter 9: 'The Slave Servant': Guerrilla Memorialisation and Multi-accented Performances in Naming the Money (2004) Chapter 10: 'Intervention, Mapping and Excavation': White Caricatures versus Black Dehumanisation in Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007) IV - 'Painting over the British to reveal the British' by Lubaina Himid Part 4: Imagining 'the ghosts and the traces' Chapter 11: Tracing 'The living/ the dead/ the ancestors' in London and Paris Guidebooks (2009) Chapter 12: Mapping Space, Debating Place: Jelly Mould Pavilions (2010) and Official Sites and Sights of Slavery and Memory Chapter 13: 'The "Ghost" of it all': Tragedy, Trauma and a 'People There and Not There' in Le Rodeur (2016) V - 'Working on Paper' by Lubaina Himid 'It's All about Action': An Interview with Lubaina Himid by Hannah Durkin Conclusion: 'Lives Depend on Accurate Histories' Bibliography.