Black England, Gretchen Gerzina

Black England, Gretchen GerzinaNew Paperback The idea that Britain became a mixed race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Whether prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Black England tells their dramatic, often moving stories. In the eighteenth century, Black people could be found in clubs and pubs, there were special churches, Black only balls and

In the summer of 1941

candid and darkly humorous

Ben Mears has returned to the Lot to write a novel and exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood - since the event he witnessed at the Marsten House

There is detailed

'Pepes Tahu' (Javanese tofu in banana leaves) and 'Khao Sen' (Thai tomato-braised rice noodles with porcini mushrooms)

Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer

engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system

as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags

flowers and other adorable creatures

but one of the hardest to pin down

he illustrates through this enticing read that the owl's presence is still very real to us today

Food was as important a part of daily life in the Middle Ages