{"product_id":"african-and-caribbean-people-in-britain-a-history","title":"African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharting a course through British history with an unobscured view of the actions of African and Caribbean people, this book reveals how much our greatest collective achievements - universal suffrage, our victory over fascism, the forging of the NHS - owe to these men and women, and how, in understanding our history in these terms, we are more able to fully understand our present moment.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican and Caribbean People in Britain\u003c\/em\u003e is\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ea major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past. Acclaimed historian \u003cstrong\u003eHakim Adi \u003c\/strong\u003edemonstrates that from the very beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the \u003cem\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/em\u003e, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLibyan legionaries patrolled Hadrian's Wall while Rome's first 'African Emperor' died in York. In Elizabethan England, 'Black Tudors' served in the land's most eminent households while intrepid African explorers helped Sir Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe. And, as Britain became a major colonial and commercial power, it was African and Caribbean people who led the radical struggle for freedom - a struggle which raged throughout the twentieth century and continues today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is part of the shop's collection that accompanies the Ashmolean Museum installation \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ashmolean.org\/collections\/shedding-light\" title=\"Shedding Light Ashmolean Shop Collection Page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShedding Light\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eon display in gallery 40, which reveals the entangled histories of colonialism, enslavement, sugar, and ceramics. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/shedding-light\" title=\"Shedding Light Ashmolean Museum Installation Information Page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here to find out more\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eabout this installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHakim Adi \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester. The first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain, he has been researching and writing about the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain for decades. He is the founder and consultant historian of the Young Historians Project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookspeed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63821292863865,"sku":"ASI-6215","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/7566\/5197\/files\/ASI-6215AfricanandCaribbeanPeopleinBritain.jpg?v=1782220491","url":"https:\/\/shop.ashmolean.org\/products\/african-and-caribbean-people-in-britain-a-history","provider":"Ashmolean Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}