Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga.
Publisher: London : Pan Books, 2017Description: xxii, 602 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43468ISBN: 9781447299769 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Blacks -- Great Britain -- History | Blacks -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Blacks -- Race identity -- Great Britain -- History | Society | Great Britain -- Race relations -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.8 OLU LOC classification: DA125.N4 | O48 2017Awards: PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017Summary: David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees' AwardShortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak PrizeLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeA Waterstones.com History Book of the Year 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.Drawing 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. 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 British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
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Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.
PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017
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