African and Caribbean People in Britain - A History John Ritchie General view of the fair

General view of the fair

What is it to be Black

The fork of Buckland Crescent and Belsize Park was a short walk from the family's Adamson Road home

There is a fold-out woodcut of the Great Fire inside the book

some Victorians finally began to confront the problems industrialisation and urbanisation had wrought

African and Caribbean People in Britain - A History John Ritchie General view of the fairDespite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest. Yet, as acclaimed historian Hakim Adi