david olusoga black and british a short essential history

Frederick Douglass (at Bell Street Baptist Chapel, Dundee, where he spoke on 30 January 1846).Uncle Tom's Cabin and black-face minstrelry (no plaque).Sarah Forbes Bonetta (at Palm Cottage in Kent unveiled by her great, great grandson).150,000 Africans liberated by the West Africa Squadron (in King's Yard, Freetown).The Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Bill Richmond, a slave freed during the American Revolution, subsequently a bare-knuckle boxer in England (at the Tom Cribb, a pub in London).Jonathan Strong and his defender, and anti-slavery campaigner, Granville Sharp (at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London).Black sailors at the Battle of Trafalgar (no plaque).Francis Barber (at Dr Johnson's House, London unveiled by his great great great great grandson, Cedric Barber).Aballava, the first recorded African community in Britain (plaque at St Michael's Church, Burgh by Sands).Ivory Bangle Lady, 4th century woman of North African descent who died in York.Episodes and plaques Įach episode had several main topics, and saw the erection of commemorative plaques, as listed in parentheses below, five of which were overseas. A new edition was published in 2021, with an additional chapter on the 2018 Windrush scandal and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. The book was awarded the 2017 Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The series' music was composed by Segun Akinola, who in 2019 received a nomination at the Screen Nation Awards in the 'Rising Star' category for his work on this and two other programmes. Īs part of each programme, commemorative plaques – twenty in all – honouring the people discussed, were erected.

It documents the history of Black people in Britain and its colonies, starting with those who arrived as part of the Roman occupation, and relates that history to modern Black British identity. British TV series or program Black and British: A Forgotten Historyīlack and British: A Forgotten History is a four-part BBC Television documentary series, written and presented by David Olusoga and first broadcast in November 2016, and a book of the same title written by Olusoga to accompany the series.

David olusoga black and british a short essential history