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The Durrells, the ITV series based on the late Gerald Durrell’s book: My Family and Other Animals, is now in its second year. Professor Keith Somerville, a recently appointed member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, explores the British naturalist, writer and film-maker’s legacy not just on his own life but also modern-day global conservation.
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In this live oral history event, migrants and their children discuss their experiences as minorities within a minority, living and working in a British society which is on the whole unaware of the Indian and Chinese presence in the Caribbean.
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A Return to the Village
ed. Francisco Ferreira and Billie Jean Isbell
This collection brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, originally published between the 1970s and 2000s. The stories behind them have now been brought together for the first time and give a fascinating insight into 20th-century South American communities