Olusoga, David,

Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga. - xxii, 602 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm

TV tie-in. 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

9781447299769 (pbk.) : £9.99


Blacks--History.--Great Britain
Blacks--Social conditions.--Great Britain
Blacks--Race identity--History.--Great Britain
Society.
Society.


Great Britain--Race relations--History.

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