Connecting Histories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415760225)

Gemma Romain works at The National Archives, Kew on a Heritage Lottery Fund project called 'Your Caribbean Heritage', cataloguing and researching colonial office original correspondence from the British Caribbean. She co-edited with David Cesarani, 'Jews and Ports Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006). Previously, she carried out her Ph.D. at the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, where she compared and analysed ethnic memories and histories of African-Caribbean and Jewish communities in modern Britain. She was also a researcher and writer for the 'Connections: Hidden British Histories' project, a historical exhibition exploring Asian, Caribbean, and Jewish history in Britain. Additionally, she is a Committee Member of the Society for Caribbean Studies, UK, and an Executive Member of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCore).