![]() ![]() ![]() I guess it was much easier to look at the things that happened in America and learn about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr than it would be to reflect on the part our own country played in that history. What little Black history we did look at during my time at school was limited to the American Civil Rights Movement. Most of my knowledge comes from things my dad taught and exposed me too, rather than anything I was taught during school. I grew up in semi-rural Devon in the 90s, multi cultural it was not, but my dad was part of the far South West Black Networking Group and I remember going to Black family days and exhibitions. I’m mixed race, with a White mother and a Black British father. ![]() Let’s start off with a little bit of my history to put this review into some context. So what I presumed was that there must not have been any Black people in British history Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga None of the Black people from the past who we know about today were ever mentioned by my teachers, and my textbooks contained nothing about the role Black people have played in the story of Britain. When I was at school there was no Black history. ![]()
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