Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and in 2019 was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration. 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 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.

We adore books here at The Cornrow HQ, for reading, for sharing and for shelfie styling! We have given a lot of thought into curating the edit of books on our site.Win signed copies of David Olusoga’s Black and British, Black and British: A Short History and Black and British: An Illustrated History.ĭavid Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award.Ī History Book of the Year. Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. 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.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. 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. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Here in this book he tell the vital history and shares his insight and expertise.

David Olusoga has been one of the most important and powerful voices in the Black Live matter reckoning in the UK post George Floyd's death.

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