Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga.

By:

Olusoga, David [author.]

Publication details: London : Pan Books, 2017.Description: 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:

volume

ISBN:

9781447299769 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DA125.N4

Summary: 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.

List(s) this item appears in: Cultural Capital: Black History Month

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Term Loan	Hockney Library Reading Zone	RC/OLU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	05/07/2023	7412315737

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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.

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