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“…a meticulously researched tour de force that charts black presence on the British Isles from Cheddar Man through the African Roman legions and Black Tudors and into the present day.” – The Guardian

Libyan legionaries patrolled Hadrian’s Wall, Rome’s first ‘African Emperor’ died in York, in Elizabethan England ‘Black Tudors’ served in the land’s most eminent households whilst intrepid African explorers helped Sir Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize, leading historian and campaigner Professor Hakim Adi shares his sweeping, panoramic history that transforms our understanding of Britain’s past.

In association with The Wolfson History Prize.