In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs. Thirty years
...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
Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, & expert testimony, Black & British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ & the global slave-trading empire.
It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, & that black Britons fought at Trafalgar & in the trenches of both World Wars.
Black British history is woven into the cultural & economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.
Unflinching, confronting taboos & revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black & white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781447299769
• Author: David Olusoga
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 624
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.7 x 4.1cm