![]() ![]() 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. Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize. Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award.Ī History Book of the Year. Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. 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. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. 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. ![]() ![]() In this vital re-examination of a shared history, 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. ![]()
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