A full understanding of Black and Asian history within the British contextis integral to achieving a truly multicultural Britain. In this landmarkbook, Ron Ramdin offers the first complete history of both the Black and Asian experience in Britain.Blacks and... [More...]

Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805. She came to England in the hope of serving as a nurse in the Crimean War. This was a huge ambition and, as she was soon to find out, getting to the battle front was easier said than done. Through sheer confidence in... [More...]

Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was the dominant force in the civil rights movement in the decade before his death. With his genius for rhetoric and his passionate advocacy of nonviolent protest, King, like Gandhi, is a modern icon of the possibilities of... [More...]

MLK, Jr.'s life and legacy examined by a British scholar.

Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French... [More...]