Full name: Black and British: A Forgotten History

Author: David Olusoga Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781447299738 1447299736

In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers 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.It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain's global slave-trading empire and that much of the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues and memorials across Britain and is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. Similar books: Austerity Britain by David Kynaston Revolution by Peter Ackroyd Magna Carta by Dan Jones The Morbid Age by Richard Overy 1939 by Anne de Courcy The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer Family Britain: 1951-57 by David Kynaston Servants by Lucy Lethbridge The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire: 1776-2001 by Simon Schama If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine An Elegant Madness by Venetia Murray What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner