Refunds for correctly delivered and undamaged items are available within 30 days of the goods' receipt. It shows how through resisting colonial slavery, people produced new cultures known as the Black Atlantic, that continue to shape our world. The illustrations and colours are vibrant and really draw the eye to want to read more about what's happening. Hepresents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the multi-award winning BBC series Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners.

David Olusoga’s thought provoking text charts the forgotten histories of Black people in Britain from Roman times right through to the present day. David was also one of the presenters on the BBC landmark arts series Civilizations alongside Simon Schama and Mary Beard. Acknowledging this story for the first time has led to new discoveries about the objects Fitzwilliam donated, the people who collected them, and the cultures that created them. Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history. This beautiful hardback gift book is a stunning visual journey through Black British history for younger readers by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and illustrated by Jake Alexander and Melleny Taylor. David Olusoga's thought provoking text charts the forgotten histories of Black people in Britain from Roman times right through to the present day. Maps and portrait galleries effortlessly convey how Black and British history have been woven together since the Roman invasion. From Roman Africans guarding Hadrian’s Wall, to an African trumpeter in the court of Henry the Eighth, Black Georgians fighting for the abolition of slavery, Black soldiers fighting for Britain in the First World War, Windrush and right up today.

By rethinking our connected and complex histories and looking again through the lens of contemporary art, tomorrow’s story can be one of repair, hope and freedom. Displaying objects and artworks made in West Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, this landmark exhibition also reveals the histories that have been silenced; not just stories of exploitation, but those of resilience and liberation, too. 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.By bringing together collections from across the University of Cambridge’s museums, libraries and colleges with loans from around the world, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance asks new questions about Cambridge’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and looks at how objects and artworks have influenced history and perspectives. She enjoys working with a variety of materials – using a range of mixed media from pencil crayons to inks, from watercolours to sticks from the garden! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The Guardian it truly sings in picture book form with the history made even more vivid via a trove of old paintings, maps and photographs combined with bold artwork by Melleny Taylor and Jake Alexander.