Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and.
It ranges from the first Africans to come to Britain to the shameful Windrush scandal, and takes in the industrial revolution, cotton grown on slave plantations and the black soldiers who fought for Britain in the first world war. In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. We can see why it’s been called a must-read.Įvening Standard In non fiction, David Olusoga’s authoritative text has been condensed for children in Black and British: A Short, Essential History (Macmillan). It tells a story which reaches back to Roman Britain, to Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’, and to the global slave trade.
For readers aged 12+, the book asks some thought-provoking questions and answers them in a smart and thorough style that will teach adults as much as it will children. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues, and memorials across Britain and is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. In Black and British: A Forgotten History, David Olusoga examines the long and eventful relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and award-winning filmmaker, who studied history and journalism before joining the BBC.
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