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Pierre Dominique Toussaint L-Overature was a gifted military leader and law giver who transformed a slave revolt in the French sugar colony of San Domingo into a revolutionary movement resulting in the creation of the Republic of Haiti in 1803. The slave revolt in France’s most lucrative colony began in 1791 when news of the [...]

BBC Radio 4 – Listen Again WebSite Descriptions of the human race based on racial characteristics go back to the late seventeenth century. In 1684, a French doctor, François Bernier, published “Nouvelle division de la terre par les différentes espèces ou races qui l’habitant” which proposed four different face and body types: Europeans, Far Easterners, [...]

Foreword by Dr. T.A. Acton Ian Hancock is a marginal man. Like all Romani intellectuals, he has had to live torn between the pariah status of his people and the embrace of a dominant culture which can hardly conceive of such a monster as an educated Gypsy. Some Gypsies in this position accept this, and [...]

RHODA DAKAR, known for singing with Two Tone bands The Bodysnatchers, The Specials and Special AKA will be collaborating with MIXED (Facebook Group) to write testimonies of the people taking part…

Welcome to Crossing the White Line:The Walter Tull Story website, an award winning initiative put together by City of Westminster Archives and Walter Tull biographer, Phil Vasili and funded by Kick it Out and the Heritage Lottery.  This website is part of a project, which aims to raise awareness and celebrate the short but historically significant life [...]

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history. The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet. I was studying politics [...]

Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by Church and State in Canada http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/

The International Slavery Museum explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery, addressing the many legacies of the slave trade and telling stories of bravery and rebellion amongst the enslaved people. These are stories which have been largely untold. For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced [...]

Britain’s 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years, yet we have been almost entirely written out of British history. Go to most museums, libraries and schools and nothing about our history and culture is kept or taught. The result is a widespread ignorance about who we [...]