Ian A. Baxter, A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources (The British Library, Oriental India Office collection)

Amanda Bevan, Tracing your Ancestors in the National Archives (6th Edition, PRO 2002)

Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (New York and London Verso, 2001)

Guy Grannum Tracing your West Indian Ancestors (PRO, 2002)

Roger Kershaw, Emigrants and Expats: A Guide to Sources on UK Emigration and Residents Overseas (PRO, 2002)

Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall, Immigrants and Aliens: A guide to Sources on UK Immigration and Citizenship (PRO, 2002)

Colvin R de Silva, Ceylon under the British Occupation (Colombo 1942)

Kelvin Smith, Christopher T Watts, and Michael J Watts, Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen (PRO, 1998)

William Spencer, Air Force Records for Family Historians (PRO, 2002)

Ann Thurston, Sources for Colonial Studies in the PRO (volume I)

Hugh Tinker, The Banyan Tree (Oxford University Press 1977)

Rozina Visram, Asians in Britain (Pluto Press, 2002)

Rozina Visram, Ayahs, Lascars and Princes (Pluto Press, 1986)