David headley rahul bhatt
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Jamie Gilham is a historian and biographer in the UK and Taiwan. He specialises in the modern history and politics of Islam and Muslims in Britain and the West. He also writes about twentieth-century and contemporary British artists, designers and makers.
His books about Islam include 'Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950' (2014); 'Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West' (ed. with Ron Geaves, 2017); 'The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855-1935' (2020); 'Muslim Women in Britain, 1850-1950: 100 Years of Hidden History' (ed. with Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, 2023); and 'Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain: New Perspectives' (ed., 2023). He has also written articles, book chapters and reviews for many scholarly publications, and contributed to BBC radio, 'Encyclopaedia of Islam', 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' and 'The Guardian' newspaper.
His books about artists and makers include 'A Suffolk Eye: Harry Hambling, Paintings' (with Maggi Ha
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Ron Headley
Jamaican cricketer
Ronald George Alphonso Headley (born 29 June 1939) is a former West Indiancricketer who played in two Tests and one ODI in 1973. An opening batsman, in first-class cricket he scored 21,695 runs at an average of 31.12, with 32 hundreds and a highest score of 187.
Headley moved to England at age 11: his father George Headley, who played 22 Tests for West Indies, was the professional at Dudley Cricket Club.[1] He spent most of his career in England, playing for Worcestershire from 1958 to 1974. He was capped by the county in 1961, and was awarded a benefit season in 1972 which raised just over £10,000.[2] In 1971 he scored 187 and 108 against Northamptonshire, becoming the first Worcestershire player to score a century in both innings of a first-class match since Edwin Cooper in 1946.[3]
Headley was eligible to play for England: indeed, his father discouraged him from playing for the West Indies because he believed that the West Indies Board treated their players badly. But in 1973, following an injury to Steve Cam
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George Headley
Wisden obituary
George Alphonso Headley MBE, who died in Jamaica on November 30, 1983, aged 74, was the first of the great black batsmen to emerge from the West Indies. Between the wars, when the West Indies batting was often vulnerable and impulsive, Headley's scoring feats led to his being dubbed the black Bradman. His devoted admirers responded by calling Bradman the white Headley - a pardonable exaggeration.
In 22 Tests, when the innings could stand or fall on his performance, Headley scored 2190 runs, including 10 centuries - eight against England - with an average of 60.83. He was the first to score a hundred in each innings of a Test at Lord's, in 1939, and it was a measure of his ability that from 1929 to 1939 he did not have a single bad Test series. By the start of the Second World War he had totalled 9532 runs in first-class cricket with an average of 72.21. Afterwards, though not the power that he had been, he extended his aggregate to 9921 runs, with 33 centuries and an average of 69.86.
Born in Panama, where his father had helped to build the Can
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