Black and British - A Forgotten History

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees'' Award A Waterstones History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize '' Groundbreaking'' The Observer 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. 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. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalized. 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. ''[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion'' The Sunday Times Now in the Picador Collection. ??????

Product details

• Authors: David Olusoga, Olusoga David
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781035062782
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3506278-2
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Picador Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), History: earliest times to present day, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Colonialism and imperialism, Relating to Black British people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice