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From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do...

The Moving Forward podcast is an interview-style show that is hosted by Caleb McClelland.Having left university early, Caleb believes there are many injustices about further education that are not highlighted and also the general theme that young people are not given a platform to speak, grow and discuss.With 'Moving Forward', he aims to bring fair discussion and coverage of situations faced by young people, with all interests and backgrounds. So, join Caleb as he travels the country, interviewing people as they speak on their experiences and ambitions.(Episodes released: Thursday at 6pm UK ...

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life. This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in...

This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion...

西汉的建立和发展是历史不可不谈的重要关节，刘邦在这其中又是一个怎么样的角色，且听历史如何演绎这一人物……西漢的建立和發展是歷史不可不談的重要關節，劉邦在這其中又是一個怎麼樣的角色，且聽歷史如何演繹這一人物……