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Websites providing information on migration to Britain include:

Black History Month: links and resources - a website providing information of relevance to the celebration and sharing of African and Caribbean history.

Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850 - a selection of records held by The National Archives and other sources, making the history of the black presence in Britain more widely known.

BBC: Multicultural History - site includes a selection of stories from passengers who arrived in Britain on the Windrush.

BBC News: Migrant World - site includes articles, factfiles and personal stories on the theme of migration.

BBC: Legacies: Immigration and Emigration - website has a clickable map that provides information on migration to and from the regions of the UK.

Casbah - a website providing research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of black and Asian peoples in the UK.

Connections: hidden British histories - a project that documents the history and experiences of Asian, black and Jewish people in modern Britain.

Icons: ss Empire Windrush - website has information on the ship and its passengers. You can view Andrea Levy reading from Small Island as one of the special features on the site.

Moving Here - providing information on 200 years of migration to Britain with a particular focus on the Caribbean, Jewish, Irish and South Asian communities.

Origination - Channel 4 website that brings together resources celebrating the contributions of immigrant cultures to contemporary Britain.

Voices: our untold stories - chronicling the history of Gloucestershire's Chinese, African Caribbean and Asian communities. It is accompanied by three books and is part of the BBC's Voices project.

Books on black communities coming to and settling in Britain include:

David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones (ed) (March 2007) The Oxford Companion to Black British History Oxford University Press

Vivienne Francis (1998) With Hope in their Eyes Nia.

Peter Fryer (1984) Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain Pluto Press.

Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips (1998) Windrush: the irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain Harper Collins. This accompanied a major BBC TV series called Windrush.

Marij van Helmond and Donna Palmer (1991) Staying Power: black presence in Liverpool National Museums and Galleries of Liverpool.

Onyekachi Wambu (editor) (1998) Empire Windrush: fifty years of writing about black Britain Gollancz.

See also the excellent series of compilation CDs, London is the Place to Be, released on the Honest Jon label.

The City of Liverpool has produced a guide to sources on Liverpool's black history held by the Liverpool Records Office Local Studies and Family History Service.

Venue journalist Eugene Byrne's article on Bristol as a city of incomers is on the Bristol Ideas Festival 2006 website.

General books on other migrations to and from Britain include:

Origins: personal stories of crossing the seas to settle in Britain (1998) Origins/Redcliffe Press.

Mary Edward (1993) Who Belongs to Glasgow? 200 years of migration Glasgow City Libraries - new edition due.

David Miles (2005) The Tribes of Britain: who are we? And where do we come from Weidenfeld and Nicholson.

Roger Kershaw (2002) Emigrants and Expats: a guide to sources on UK emigration and residents overseas The National Archives.

Roger Kershaw (2000) Immigrants and Aliens: a guide to sources on UK immigration and citizenship The National Archives.

Philippe Legrain (2006) Immigrants: your country needs them Little Brown Book Group

Mark Pearsall (2006) Family History on the Move: where your ancestors went and why The National Archives.

Robert Winder (2005) Bloody Foreigners Abacus.

The Commission for Racial Equality marked its 30th birthday in 2006 by asking 12 leading chefs to contribute recipes to 30 Years on a Plate – a collection of dishes served in Britain that originated abroad. Visit the CRE website to read the recipes.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council is funding a number of research projects on the theme of diasporas, migration and identity. See the website for details.