![]() David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide. You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. ![]() Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781447299769 Number of pages: 624 Weight: 484 g Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. ![]() It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. ![]() ![]() In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. My right, not just to regard myself as a British citizen, but even to be in Britain seemed contested. When I was a child, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions.to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain. ![]()
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