Romain, Gemma

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 is the author of 'Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain', to be published by Kegan Paul in autumn 2005. 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