Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Spartacus Educational Website Includes Encyclopedia 'Black People in Britain'

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

Wednesday, 15 October 2008 
“Established in September 1997, the Spartacus Educational website provides a series of history encyclopaedias.” “Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopaedia. In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail. The sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the writer, artist, newspaper and organization that produced the material.” The encyclopedias include: “Black People in Britain,”

“A collection of biographies of black people who lived in Britain. This includes John Alcindor, Ira Aldridge, John Archer, Francis Barber, Manchererjee Bhownaggree, George Bridgetower, Learie Constantine, William Cuffay, Offobah Cugoano, William Davidson, Celestine Edwards, Olaudah Equiano, Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, Claude McKay, Tom Molineaux, Harold Moody, Dadabhai Naoroji, George Padmore, James Peters, Bill Richmond, Paul Robeson, Shapurji Saklatvala, Ignatius Sancho, Mary Seacole, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Walter Tull, Robert Wedderburn, Arthur Wharton and Sylvester Williams. [George Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Ignatius Sancho are profiled at AfriClassical.com

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