Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Also: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007-; Honorary Professor of History, University of Stellenbosch, 2010-
Formerly: Head of Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College Reader in History, University of London Co-editor of African Affairs
Research: Presence of black people in Britain; African history; local English history
Regions: Africa
Publications: A Plague of Europeans, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973; Africa and the Second World War, Macmillan, London, 1986, (ed. with R. Rathbone); Khaki and Blue: Military and Police in British Colonial Africa, (with A. Clayton) Ohio University Press, Athens, 1989; Policing the Empire: Government, Authority and Control 1830-1940 (ed with David Anderson), Manchester University Press, 1991; Policing and Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics and the Police, 1917-1965 (ed. with David Anderson), Manchester University Press, 1992; Africans in Britain, ed. Frank Cass, London, 1994; The West Indies. British Documents on the End of Empire (with S.R. Ashton) HMSO, London, 1999; Guardians of Empire (ed. with David Omissi) Manchester U. P.1999; An Unbelievable Stroke of Luck, by Isaac Fadoyebo, edited and with an introduction by David Killingray. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999; The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: new perspectives (ed with Howard Phillips) Routledge, London, Social History of Medicine series, 2003; Maritime Empire (ed. with M. Lincoln and N. Rigby). Boydell & Brewer, 2004. A Historical Atlas of Kent (ed. with T. Lawson). Phillimore, Chichester, 2004 Sevenoaks People and Faith (ed.), Phillimore, Chichester, 2004. The United Kingdom Overseas Territories: Past, present and future (ed. with David Taylor) (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 2005). Black Voices: the shaping of our Christian experiences [with Joel Edwards] (IVP: Nottingham, 2007). Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War (James Currey, Oxford, 2010)