· The British-Nigerian David Olusoga has a head start on Fryer. But whereas Fryer had an independent radical publisher (Pluto) at his elbow, Olusoga had to Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. From Roman soldiers to black slaves to WW2 GIs, Olusoga traces the changing role of black men and women in British society, as well as the attitudes towards them. The specific focus is on the international slave trade, with a much smaller section on post , but there are significant holes in the story due to the nature of the evidence/5(K). Black and British: A Forgotten History. Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Africa.
Writer and historian David Olusoga presents a series of short films exploring critical moments in Black British history from that have been forgotten or. David Olusoga's A Black History of Britain 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, A Black History of Britain reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. 08/10/ 7 minutes to read. David Olusoga introduces his book Black and British: A Forgotten History, a revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa which accompanied his landmark BBC series, and pays tribute to the pioneering works on black British history that inspired it.
Synopsis. The definitive history of Britain’s troubled history with the people of Africa and the Caribbean, Olusoga’s account begins in the Roman era and takes in Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the horrors of the slave trade as well as the author’s own childhood memories of racism and prejudice. H istorian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the Bafta-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave. Black and British: A Forgotten History. Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Africa. 4 Episodes Available. Start Watching.
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