![]() ![]() Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries. ![]() It ranges from the first Africans to come to Britain to the shameful Windrush scandal, and takes in the industrial revolution, cotton grown on slave plantations and the black soldiers who fought for Britain in the first world war. Summary: David Olusoga's A Black History of Britain reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. ![]() We can see why it’s been called a must-read.Įvening Standard In non fiction, David Olusoga’s authoritative text has been condensed for children in Black and British: A Short, Essential History (Macmillan). Children will begin by considering the author's reasons for writing the book and how their previous knowledge fits with new historical facts they are presented with. For readers aged 12+, the book asks some thought-provoking questions and answers them in a smart and thorough style that will teach adults as much as it will children. This is a 15-session Literary Leaf for Black and British: A Short, Essential History by David Olusoga which covers all aspects of the Upper Key Stage 2 content domains. ![]()
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