100 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great

By Louis Stewart & Naomi Kenyon

From the Anglo-Saxons in the fifth century to Bangladeshis in the twentieth, Britain has been enriched by immigrants. These 100 illustrated biographies celebrate the achievements of figures across a range of disciplines including Trinidad-born Claudia Jones, founder of the Notting Hill Carnival; African-American actor Ira Aldridge; publisher George Weidenfeld, a refugee from Nazi Austria; Egyptian-born heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub; and Olympian Tessa Sanderson, who spent her early childhood in Jamaica .