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The must-have book for mixed-raced children, by Emma Slade Edmondson, co-host of the award-winning Mixed Up podcast.

The must-have book for mixed-raced children, by Emma Slade Edmondson, co-host of the award-winning Mixed Up podcast.

Despite 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 from the very beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart.

A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library. Professor Hakim Adi, shortlisted for the...