CASBAH: research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK. Still rather a pilot project, it is a beginning. And while as an archival professional I don't think that 'valuable resources... currently lie hidden and unindexed in archives and libraries across the UK' is unique to this area of interest ( Read more... )

Lascars: the forgotten Asian, African and other 'foreign' seamen serving on British ships.

The 1919 Race Riots in seaports at Glasgow, South Shields, Liverpool (in which at least one black seaman was killed), Cardiff (and elsewhere in Wales) and London. It's really, really, difficult to find good specific accounts of most of these, as opposed to ( Read more... )

Orientalist panics and exaggerations over Limehouse, centre of London's early C20th Chinese community.

I'm surprised to find so little on the 1923 Madame Fahmy case online - there's a summary for a TV programme about this 'Murder in the Savoy' which gives the basics of the case. She was acquitted of murdering her husband, an Egyptian prince into ( Read more... )

Details are here in the ibarw community.

As a pinko-beige person, I've been thinking what I could do (apart, that is, from listen and learn, which is perhaps the most important work).

Since it appears that there have been some indications lately that in some circles it's considered that racism is not a UK or European problem, I think that what I might ( Read more... )