Black and British: An Illustrated History

Product Information

She enjoys working with a variety of materials – using a range of mixed media from pencil crayons to inks, from watercolours to sticks from the garden!

The Guardian it truly sings in picture book form with the history made even more vivid via a trove of old paintings, maps and photographs combined with bold artwork by Melleny Taylor and Jake Alexander.This exhibition explores some new stories from history – stories that help us to separate fact from fiction and history from myth. Acknowledging this story for the first time has led to new discoveries about the objects Fitzwilliam donated, the people who collected them, and the cultures that created them. David Olusoga’s thought provoking text charts the forgotten histories of Black people in Britain from Roman times right through to the present day. He often makes work based on popular culture and current events, having created a Star Wars -themed zine and portraits of public figures such as Taika Waititi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. 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. From Roman Africans guarding Hadrian’s Wall, to an African trumpeter in the court of Henry the Eighth, Black Georgians fighting for the abolition of slavery, Black soldiers fighting for Britain in the First World War, Windrush and right up today.A clear concise book starting with the Romans and finishing with the Windrush and ensuing scandal to BLM protests. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But Fitzwilliam’s generosity was only possible because of the wealth his grandfather accumulated in part through the transatlantic slave trade.

These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history. The dimensions of the book are wider than A4 and need a deeper bookshelf, but no child's bookshelf should be without it. Displaying objects and artworks made in West Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, this landmark exhibition also reveals the histories that have been silenced; not just stories of exploitation, but those of resilience and liberation, too. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.David Olusoga's thought provoking text charts the forgotten histories of Black people in Britain from Roman times right through to the present day. By bringing together collections from across the University of Cambridge’s museums, libraries and colleges with loans from around the world, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance asks new questions about Cambridge’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and looks at how objects and artworks have influenced history and perspectives. David is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and sits on the Scott Trust. 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 forthe Guardian and the New Statesman.