black and british a forgotten history book

Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize. Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ Award. David Olusoga's A Black History of Britain reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. 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. Black and British: A Forgotten History a book by David Olusoga 25,592,225.59 raised for local bookstores Black and British: A Forgotten History David Olusoga (Author) FORMAT Paperback 20.95 19.48 Paperback 19.95 18. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all.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. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalised. This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. 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. Featuring three former African American slaves, the novel draws on the thousands of formerly enslaved Africans who, having fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution, were. Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times

' comprehensive and important history of black Britain.

Black and british a forgotten history book