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Black and British: A short, essential history Paperback – October 1, 2020

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Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020

A short, essential introduction to Black British history for readers of 12+ by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.

When did Africans first come to Britain?

Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings?

Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution?

These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall right up to the present day.

This children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits.

Macmillan Children's Books will donate 50p from every copy sold to The Black Curriculum.

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    12 years and up
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    176 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Grade level
    7 - Preschool
  5. Dimensions
    5.08 x 0.6 x 7.76 inches
  6. Publisher
    Macmillan Children's Books
  7. Publication date
    October 1, 2020
  8. ISBN-10
    1529063396
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1529063394
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David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and BAFTA award-winning presenter and filmmaker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine. His previous books include Black and British, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the Longman-History Today Trustees Award, The Kaiser’s Holocaust and The World’s War. He was also a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Black British History. In 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration.

The Black Curriculum is a social enterprise founded in 2019 by young people to address the lack of Black British history in the UK Curriculum. We believe that by delivering arts focused Black history programmes, providing teacher training and campaigning through mobilizing young people, we can facilitate social change. Our programmes are for all young people aged 8-16 and aim to equip young people with a sense of identity, and the tools for a diverse landscape. We are working towards changing the national curriculum and building a sense of identity in every young person in the UK.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Children's Books; Main Market edition (October 1, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529063396
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529063394
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - Preschool
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.6 x 7.76 inches
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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 and a columnist for The Observer. He also writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.

He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the award winning series Black & British: A Forgotten History and Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. His other presenting credits include The World’s War, and The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files. David was also one of the presenters on the BBC landmark arts series Civilizations alongside Simon Schama and Mary Beard. He is the Creative Director of Uplands Television Limited, a Bristol based independent production company, through which he develops and exec-produces history and arts projects.

David is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and sits on the Scott Trust.

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Susie128
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for kids in Britain, and across the world!
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024
Olusoga is a professional historian who brings academic rigor to this book while writing in a style that is accessible for kids. It is wonderful to see historians taking the latest scholarship and making it available outside of an educational context.
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Terry McCormack
1.0 out of 5 stars Untruthful and Wring
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2022
This author is renowned for ‘making up’ black history to further his agenda and sadly he has been at it again. There were no ‘African’ legionaries guarding Hadrians Wall as part of the Roman Army as he suggests and he goes on to come out with lots more fantastical rubbish that he thinks should be used to teach black kids. Basically, he lies through his teeth about Black Tudors, Black Romans, Black ‘nurses’ in the Crimea and Blacks in the First World War. On that last point he said they were ‘having to dig trenches and move supplies, something they had not trained for’. Newsflash Popeye, EVERY soldier had to do stuff like that. The book is utter rubbish. Totally made up. Don’t fall for it. Most importantly this bull***t shouldn’t be taught to kids as ‘history’.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant for kids, parents and teachers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2023
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I am a specialist history teacher in a uk primary school. This book has helped me to plan a syllabus for our Black History Month work. As a white person, I worry about getting the tone right. David Olusoga writes about black history in a clear and sensible way that makes this sensitive topic accessible to all. I have recommended this book to my pupils and colleagues. Furthermore, there is an even more child-friendly edition which is in the format of a children’s big book, which the kids love.
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MR STEVEN A GREENOW
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2020
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This is a brilliant book, everyone should read it and be educated and inspired about a rich history of black British heroes who have struggled to pave the way for so many today. It is particularly good for a younger audience, but I think this makes it also great for an older audience that simply need an introduction to the wealth of stories included.

The book is well researched as it’s obviously an essential version of the authors much longer book Black and British. The pictures are a great addition, especially with a younger audience in mind, but very much appreciated by an older audience too! 😄

This book alone should be part of the national curriculum in high schools and essential reading for young people!

***my only gripe is that the Kindle version appears to be in an image format which means you cannot highlight text, change the size of the text, change the background colour etc. This doesn’t in anyway effect the content of the book, but it does effect the user experience and I think that’s a shame as it may put people off being able to access the book if you need bigger text etc. My review is from November 2020 and this way well be fixed by now!
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Bernice
5.0 out of 5 stars What an incredibly interesting insight into Black History here in Britain
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2023
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Great way to introduce Black History in Britain to the curriculum here in Britain and around the world.
I’ll be using it with the Year 6 children at my school.
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JV
4.0 out of 5 stars Fact checked and approved
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2022
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So I bought this book to fact check myself, and I would say that it is accurate. The reason it is not 5 star is that I wish there were child-appropriate further reading (and I hope that his adult version has a full list of references the author used,) so that children can be encouraged to fact check for themselves. There were also parts of the book that felt more like reading a narrative, because there were no names of people or events to fact check against. The things that I could fact check with names of people or events were, at least on a surface level (since I don't have access to a reference list,) something that did happen.
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Claire (Poppy) Salisbury
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Educational
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2023
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Well written and very informative, thank you.
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