David Olusoga

Broschiertes Buch

Black and British

A Forgotten History

Beschreibung

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Unflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries - from Roman Britain to the Black Lives Matter protests. 'Groundbreaking' - The Observer 'A radical reappraisal' - The Guardian 'Written with great force and passion' - The Sunday Times Drawing on new research, original records and expert testimony, David Olusoga's Black and British shows us exactly why black history is not a separate or marginalized story, but an integral part of Britain's cultural and economic life. Stretching back as far as 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. Now fully revised and updated to include the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a history that reveals how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries - a history that belongs to us all. Now in the Picador Collection.

Autor

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, the author of several books and a columnist for the Observer, The Voice and BBC History Magazine, also writing for The Guardian and The New Statesman. He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the multi-award winning BBC series Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. He is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and in 2019 was appointed OBE for services to history and community integration. Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. A children's edition, Black and British: A Short, Essential History, was published in 2020.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan MacMillan
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781035062782
• ISBN-10: 103506278X
• Artikelnr.: 71711543

Rezensionen

You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide. Adam Hochschild