5/13/2023 0 Comments Olusoga black and britishI bought this book because we’d watched and loved Olusoga’s TV programme of the same name: this is not exactly the book of the TV programme, missing some things but able to add a lot more detail. Its imprint can be read in stately homes, street names, statues and memorials across Britain and is intertwined with the cultural and economic histories of the nation. But there we go – maybe people are catching up and haven’t got to it yet, as I’m a little lagging with my blog reading.Īnyway, I bought this book back in June 2020 and blogged about it here – this is the third book I’ve finished from that batch of buys, and I am looking forward to picking off other books soon (I have also had epic BookPost recently but I’ll tell you about that next weekend).ĭavid Olusoga – “Black and British: A Forgotten Story”īlack British history can be read in the crumbling stones of the forty slave fortresses that are peppered along the coast of West Africa and in the old plantations and former slave markets of the lost British empire of North America. I was also disappointed not to get more reads of the Stormzy book I read and reviewed last, which I thought was smashing. I’m feeling like I’m struggling with my 20 Books of Summer project at the moment – this is Book 9 and I’m currently half-way through Book 10 but I should be further along than that.
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