Collection: Adult Non Fiction

Since 1959 Dr Catherine Hamlin has worked in Ethiopia. With her husband Reg, she pioneered surgery for the condition called 'fistula' - an injury incurred during obstructive labour, resulting in uncontrollable incontinence. Fistula sufferers are outcasts in society. The techniques the Hamlins dev...

Subject: This book provides a comprehensive view of the different ways traditional cloth is made and used. Methods of producing cloth are traced from the preparation of the raw materials, to the weaving of the textiles on various types of looms.

On 17th September 1986, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, a 13 year old Bangladeshi student, was murdered in the playground of Burnage High School, fatally stabbed by a 13 year old white student. Both boys were in the 3rd year at the school in South Manchester.

Subject: A biography of Paul Robeson - on his early life as the son of a former slave, his international career as an actor and singer, his political activism where he campaigned against prejudice and racism, and the U.S. government's attempts to destroy him.

Regarded as the first voice of black feminism, these essays focus on racial progress and women's rights. Anna Cooper emphasises importance of women's education and discusses African Americans' economic role and their literary representation.