West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2024. West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War. In: Mandy Link and Matthew M. Stith, eds. New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man's Land. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9783031493249
Colonial Soldiers: Race, Military Service and Masculinity during and beyond World War I and II Smith, Richard W. P. . 2020. Colonial Soldiers: Race, Military Service and Masculinity during and beyond World War I and II. In: Karen Hagemann; Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose, eds. Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199948710
Entries for Gordon, William James; Johns, Vere; Reid, Hubert Smith, Richard W. P. . 2016. Entries for Gordon, William James; Johns, Vere; Reid, Hubert. In: Franklin W Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr, eds. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. OUP. ISBN 978-0199935796
Post-War Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination Smith, Richard W. P. . 2016. Post-War Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination. In: David Owen and Cristina Pividori, eds. Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, pp. 173-188. ISBN 9789004314917
The First World War and the Permanent West Indian Soldier Smith, Richard W. P. . 2014. The First World War and the Permanent West Indian Soldier. In: Richard Fogarty and Andrew Jarboe, eds. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict. London: I.B.Tauris, pp. 303-327. ISBN 978-1780764405
Foreword to Juliet Gilkes Romero, At the Gates of Gaza Smith, Richard W. P. . 2014. Foreword to Juliet Gilkes Romero, At the Gates of Gaza. In: Juliet Gilkes Romero, ed. At the Gates of Gaza. London: Oberon. ISBN 978-1783191734
'The black male body in the white imagination during WW1' Smith, Richard W. P. . 2013. 'The black male body in the white imagination during WW1'. In: Paul Cornish and Nicholas Saunders, eds. Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation. London: Routledge, pp. 39-52. ISBN 978-0415834223
Soldiery Smith, Richard W. P. . 2012. Soldiery. In: Philippa Levine and John Marriott, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 359-376. ISBN 978-0754664154
The Impact of the First World War on the Garvey Movement Smith, Richard W. P. . 2011. The Impact of the First World War on the Garvey Movement. In: Robert A Hill, ed. Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. XI Durham, NC: Duke University Press, cclxxv-cclxxxi. ISBN 978-0-822-34690-6
J. Edmestone Barnes, a Jamaican Apocalyptic Visionary in the Early Twentieth Century Smith, Richard W. P. . 2009. J. Edmestone Barnes, a Jamaican Apocalyptic Visionary in the Early Twentieth Century. In: Karolyn Kinane and Mike Ryan, eds. End of days: essays on the apocalypse from antiquity to modernity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, pp. 120-141. ISBN 978-0-786-44204-1
"The Black Peril": race and masculinity on the Home Front in the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2008. "The Black Peril": race and masculinity on the Home Front in the First World War. In: Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster, eds. Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 19-34. ISBN 075467178X
'World War One', 'World War Two', 'Booker T Washington' Smith, Richard W. P. . 2007. 'World War One', 'World War Two', 'Booker T Washington'. In: David Dabydeen and John Gilmore, eds. The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192804396
Imagining the West Indian Soldier: From Empire to Multicultural Commemoration Smith, Richard W. P. . 2020. 'Imagining the West Indian Soldier: From Empire to Multicultural Commemoration'. In: Seminar Series organised by In Flanders Fields Museum and School of History/Gateways to the First World War, University of Kent. In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium 13 February 2020.
Remembering the West Indian contribution in the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2018. 'Remembering the West Indian contribution in the First World War'. In: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Fellowship. Burfort Court, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom 11 September 2018.
Race, memory and posthumous justice during the First World War centenary commemorations Smith, Richard W. P. . 2018. 'Race, memory and posthumous justice during the First World War centenary commemorations'. In: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: Memory and Transformation. Birmingham Conference and Exhibition Centre, United Kingdom 21 November 2018.
Memories of British West Indian service in the First World War in multicultural Britain Smith, Richard W. P. . 2016. 'Memories of British West Indian service in the First World War in multicultural Britain'. In: Minding Black Histories in War Times Community Development Day. School of Media, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom 30 September 2016.
Locating the memory of British West Indian First World War military service Smith, Richard W. P. . 2016. 'Locating the memory of British West Indian First World War military service'. In: The First World War: Commemoration and Memory. Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, United Kingdom 26-27 February 2016.
Remembering the West Indian contribution to the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2015. 'Remembering the West Indian contribution to the First World War'. In: Saturday public talk. New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom 24 October 2015.
Mediated memories and the West Indian dead of the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2015. 'Mediated memories and the West Indian dead of the First World War'. In: Foreign Fields: The Recovery and Commemoration of War Dead in Post-Colonial Contexts. Kingston University, United Kingdom 17 September 2015.
The British West Indies and the First World War Smith, Richard W. P. . 2015. 'The British West Indies and the First World War'. In: Heritage London Fund knowledge briefing. Heritage Lottery Fund, 7 Holbein Place, London SW1, United Kingdom 23 April 2015.
Panel member Smith, Richard W. P. . 2014. 'Panel member'. In: Whose Remembrance (Imperial War Museum/Gateways to the First World War). University of Leeds, United Kingdom 9 December 2014.
Empire and Ethnicity roundtable contribution Smith, Richard W. P. . 2014. 'Empire and Ethnicity roundtable contribution'. In: In the Shadow of the First World War: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict in Global Perspective. Department of History, University of Manchester, United Kingdom 16 May 2014.
Responses to Black and Indian soldiers in Britain Smith, Richard W. P. . 2014. 'Responses to Black and Indian soldiers in Britain'. In: British Association for Local History, Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality. Senate House, University of London 28 February 2014.
Richard has written widely on the experience of West Indian troops in both World Wars and the race and gender implications of military service in the British Empire, including Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness (2004, 2009). Richard’s current research focuses on representations of black and Asian troops in popular history documentary and the role these images serve within the national memory of multicultural Britain. He also continues to research the black presence in Britain 1900-1945; the role of the mass media in the British Empire, and comparative history approaches to colonial soldiery in modern empires. Richard’s expertise is regularly sought by broadcasters, museums and archives and he is involved in a number of academic and local history initiatives marking the centenary of the First World War. Richard was on the advisory committee for the 'Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire' project funded by the AHRC, he is a contributing author to GWonline, the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600 and the Oxford African American Studies Center and has recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of War & Culture Studies.
