Item category 2: Book Box

Subject: Short biographies about several remarkable people, including Claudia Jones, Sake Deen Mahomed, Mary Seacole, Ira Aldridge, Samuel Coleridge -Taylor, and Dadabhai Naoroji,

Subject: A 12 page introduction to slavery, which concisely but authoritatively summarizes all key issues.

Subject: Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. In 1355 after almost 30 years of travel and 75000 miles he told his story to the Moroccan Court secretary who wrote it down in arabic

Subject: A new poetry collection from renowned performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrating the diversity of British society. A unique portrait of British children, Benjamin has written 12 poems, each one about a child in his or her home environment. The children are from a range of backgroun...

Subject: Highlights the significant but little known contribution made by Britain's ethnic minorities to defence over the past two hundred and fifty years.

Subject: A Grandfather explains to his granddaughter why he named her father after the boxer Joe Louis

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. This book is a biography of h...