# Thursday’s Child

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- Book: [Thursday’s Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-bourne/thursdays-child) ([Thursday’s Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-bourne/thursdays-child.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Bourne](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-bourne)
- Publisher: jacaranda_books
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0675-030-6
- Published: 2026-09-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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, cemented by previous titles like his much acclaimed Black Poppies: Britain Black Community and The Great War. Readers visit the rubble of World War II in West London in the spectacular reminiscences of Aunt Esther, Stephen's adopted Guyanese-British relative and, in a next breath, are catapulted to the trying if not relatable moments of professional and personal rejection, as a budding film critic and staunch activist for the MET police; to the more elusive and opaque kind: when a love between two dissipates nearly as soon as its begun. This is a vivid and deeply personal social history - an intimate journey through family, war, identity, and the making of a pioneering figure of British public life. And ultimately, an opportunity for readers to bring one of this country's most dedicated historians into the spotlight for the first time.