'𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆’𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕.'

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It baffles me that there exists people in this country who believe the history of black people in Britain began with Windrush.

This phenomenal account of black British history is staggeringly well researched, utterly engaging and markedly measured in its delivery.

Firmly refuting a notion that black Britishness is a distinctly post-war idea Olusoga carefully and thoughtfully plots the historical impact that Britain has had on the lives of black individuals in Africa, the US and the UK. Through a charting of British involvement in the slave trade, in the ending of slavery in the UK, the idea and exercise of British colonialism and fighting in both world wars , this fascinating study identifies and delineates a notion of black Britishness dating back hundreds of years.

This is essential reading for anyone interested in ideas of identity, and anyone looking to be informed on a black history that is not whitewashed and 'sanitised' of the more uncomfortable truths that Britain needs to face up to.