BBC Links Celebrating Black History - photo gallery of celebrations at Gloucester Guildhall for Black History Month 2003. BBC Legacies - www.bbc.co.uk/legacies - Local history website with a difference. The aim is to scrutinise the same UK history that you can find in any book or website, but to show how this history unfolds across every locality of the UK. BBC Asian Life - www.bbc.co.uk/asianlife - The best of the BBC's South Asian content BBC Multicultural History - includes audio archive of passengers on the Windrush talking about their experiences, features on the first black Britons, the British in India and much more. BBC History - Windrush - Articles, personal accounts and oral history from Caribbean immigrants on the Empire Windrush BBC Schools GCSE Bitesize History - India - topics on British India, Dharasana, Gandhi and Jinnah, Indian independence and Partition. Other links: British Empire and Commonwealth Museum www.empiremuseum.co.uk - represents the first serious attempt in the UK to present a publicly accessible history of the British Empire and to examine its continuing impact on Britain and the rest of the world, drawing upon a wide range of experiences and divergent opinions about the colonial period. It presents a history seen from all sides, from explorers to aboriginal peoples, viceroys to freedom fighters, district officers to indentured servants. Moving Here - www.movinghere.org.uk Extensive online archive detailing the history of 200 years of migration to the UK. 100 Great Black Britons - www.100greatblackbritons.com The rich and diverse historical background of black Britain. 
The three books in Our Untold Stories series are on sale through county libraries, price £4 for the Chinese book and £5 each for the African Caribbean and Asian histories. |