Chapters in books:
‘ Warm Beer, Cricket and Faith: English National Identity and Refugee Children 1937 – 1945’ in Faiths and Education: Historical and Comparative Perspectives ed. by J. Coolahan, R. Aldrich and F. Simon (Ghent: C.S.H.P.,1999), pp.258-280.
'Refugees, Racism and Educational Policy: from the past to the future’ in D. Hill and M. Cole Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy (Kogan Paul: September 2001 - jointly authored with Dr Ian Grosvenor)
‘English character and identity’ in G. Taylor and S. Spencer (eds.), Perspectives on Social Identity (Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002), pp.129 – 144.
‘ Critical voices: refugees, exclusion and schooling’ in M. Shevlin and R. Rose (eds) Encouraging voices: respecting the insights of young people who have been marginalized (Dublin: National Disability Authority, 2003), pp.254-272
Single-authored books
1997 Assimilating Identities: Racism and Educational Policy in Post 1945 Britain, London: Lawrence and Wishart. pp224
Joint-authored books
1989 The Peoples’ Century: Birmingham 1889-1989, with members of Birmingham Peoples’ History Group, Birmingham: TURC Publishing. pp40.
1992 The Apostles of Purity: Black Immigration and Education Policy in Post-War Britain with Bob Carter, Birmingham: AFFOR Publishing.pp38
2000 Educating Everyone Together with Leena Kaikkonen, Linus Cornelissen, Norbert Krebs, Richard Rose and Rheinallt Vaughan, Jyvaskyla: Finnish Government pp104
2001 The City a Light and a Beacon. A Guide to Birmingham Education Archives with D. Bishop, E. Gabbet, S. Roberts, M. Stephens, P. Taylor and B. Winsor Birmingham: Birmingham City Council and History of Education Society GB.pp50
2003 The School I’d Like with Catherine Burke, London: Routledge, pp194.
Edited books
1995 Crossing the Key Stages of History edited with R. Watts, London: David Fulton. pp154
1999 Introduction to Educational Studies edited with David Matheson, London: David Fulton.pp184
1999 Silences and Images. The Social History of the Classroom edited with Martin Lawn and Kate Rousmaniere, New York: Peter Lang. pp275
2001 Doing Research in Special Education. Ideas into Practice edited with Richard Rose, London: David Fulton. pp176
2002 Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, edited with Rita McLean and Sian Roberts, Birmingham , Black Pasts Birmingham Futures. pp148.
Single-authored Book
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860, (1998) 236 pp.. London: Longman. ISBN 0 582 28826 6
Edited Books and Special Editions of Journals
‘ Theory, methodology and the History of Education’ ed. with Gary McCulloch History of Education (2003) Vol. 32, Number 2. ISSN 1464-5130
‘ Urbanisation and Education: the City as a Light and Beacon?’ ed. with Ian Grosvenor and Frank Simon (Feb., 2003) 253 pp. Paedagogica Historica, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1&2. ISSN 0030-9230
‘ Deviancy, Identity and Equality: engaging with the present and the past’ ed. with Ian Grosvenor (June, 2002) 93 pp.. Educational Review, Vol.54, Number 2. ISSN 0013-1911
Crossing the Key Stages of History ed. with Ian Grosvenor, (1995) 154 pp.. London: David Fulton. ISBN 1-85346-324-8
Meeting the Challenge: Preparing Tomorrow's History Teachers, ed. with Peter Lucas (1992) 52 pp.. University of Sheffield and Standing Conference of History Teacher Educators in the United Kingdom. ISBN 0-902831-28-3
New Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) (September 2004)
‘ Cooper, Alice Jane (1846-1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51748
‘ Creak, Edith Elizabeth Maria (1855-1919)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51760
‘ Nimmo, Margaret (1850-1938)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51755
‘ Sharpe, Matilda (1830-1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51750
Single-authored books
Birmingham: A Social History after 1945 (Liverpool, Jones-Sands Publishing, 2007) forthcoming
Birmingham: A History of the People and the City (Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, 2005)
Celebrating Sanctuary: Birmingham and the Refugee Experience 1750-2002 (Birmingham, 2002).
Celebrating Sanctuary: Birmingham and the Refugee Experience (Birmingham, 2001)
Joint-authored books
With Peter Leather, The University of Birmingham: a History of the University and its Buildings (University of Birmingham, 2006) forthcoming
Edited Publications
‘ With Tahir Abbas and Rajinder Dudrah, Ethnicity and Culture in the Global City (2006) forthcoming. With Verdah Chishti and Alison Gove-Humphries, Exploring the Muslim Heritage (Studley, Brewin Books, 2006) forthcoming.
Editor and main contributor, Joseph Priestley and Birmingham (Studley, Brewin Books, 2005)
Editor and main contributor, Millennibrum Edition of the Birmingham Historian, October 2001
Editor, Black Country Partnership for Learning Widening Participation Project, Final Report (Dudley, 2000)
Editor, Education and Employment: Initiatives and Experiences 1780 to the Present (Leicester, History of Education Society, 1989)
" Move me on” Teaching History Volume 109 December 2002
" Personalising the American West, Studying the American West through the Bent Family.” Teaching History Volume 112 September 2003
" Move me on” Teaching History Volume 117 December 2004