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Author : Linda Colley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300107595
"Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly topical ... a delight to read."Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
Author : Patrick Vernon,Angelina Osborne
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472144294
'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian 'Timely and so important . . . recognition is long overdue . . . I would encourage everyone to buy it!' DAWN BUTLER MP A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over many centuries, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE. 'Building on decades of scholarship, this book by Patrick Vernon and Dr Angelina Osborne brings the biographies of Black Britons together and vividly expands the historical backdrop against which these hundred men and women lived their lives.' From the Foreword, by DAVID OLUSOGA 'I am delighted to see the relaunch of 100 Great Black Britons. For too long the contribution of Britons of African and Caribbean heritage have been underestimated, undervalued and overlooked' SADIQ KHAN, Mayor of London Patrick Vernon's landmark 100 Great Black Britons campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the Black British community from the mainstream popular conception of 'Britishness', despite Black people having lived in Britain for over a thousand years, Vernon set up a public poll in which anyone could vote for the Black Briton they most admired. The response to this campaign was incredible. As a result, a number of Black historical figures were included on the national school curriculum and had statues and memorials erected and blue plaques put up in their honour. Mary Seacole was adopted by the Royal College of Nursing and was given the same status as Florence Nightingale. Children and young people were finally being encouraged to feel pride in their history and a sense of belonging in Britain. Now, with this book, Vernon and Osborne have relaunched the campaign with an updated list of names and accompanying portraits -- including new role models and previously little-known historical figures. Each entry explores in depth the individual's contribution to British history - a contribution that too often has been either overlooked or dismissed. In the wake of the 2018 Windrush scandal, and against the backdrop of Brexit, the rise of right-wing populism and the continuing inequality faced by Black communities across the UK, the need for this campaign is greater than ever.
Author : Christopher A. Snyder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470758212
This book provides a fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. It also discusses the revivals of interest in British culture and myth over the centuries, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids. A fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. Describes the life, language and culture of the Britons before, during and after Roman rule. Examines the figures of King Arthur and Merlin and the evolution of a powerful national mythology. Proposes a new theory on the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and the establishment of separate Brittonic kingdoms. Discusses revivals of interest in British culture and myth, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids.
Author : Nadine Attewell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442667075
In 1932, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, his famous novel about a future in which humans are produced to spec in laboratories. Around the same time, Australian legislators announced an ambitious experiment to “breed the colour” out of Australia by procuring white husbands for women of white and indigenous descent. In this study, Nadine Attewell reflects on an assumption central to these and other policy initiatives and cultural texts from twentieth-century Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: that the fortunes of the nation depend on controlling the reproductive choices of citizen-subjects. Better Britons charts an innovative approach to the politics of reproduction by reading an array of works and discourses – from canonical modernist novels and speculative fictions to government memoranda and public debates – that reflect on the significance of reproductive behaviours for civic, national, and racial identities. Bringing insights from feminist and queer theory into dialogue with work in indigenous studies, Attewell sheds new light on changing conceptions of British and settler identity during the era of decolonization.
Author : David MacRitchie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Blacks
ISBN : UIUC:30112075272630
Author : Imogen Russell Williams
Publisher : Inspiring Lives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1839940158
The inspiring stories of 50 key figures in Great Britain's history, who had an impact on the ways we live, think and feel today.
Author : Luke De Noronha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526143992
Deporting 'Black Britons' exposes the relationship between racism, borders and citizenship by telling the painful stories of four men who have been exiled to Jamaica. It examines processes of criminalisation, illegalisation and racialisation as they interact to construct deportable subjects in contemporary Britain and offers new ways of thinking about race and citizenship at different scales.
Author : T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198217312
The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.
Author : Francesca Kaminski-Jones,Rhys Kaminski-Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198863076
This book investigates the ways in which ideas associated with the Celtic and the Classical have been used to construct identities (national/ethnic/regional etc.) in Britain, from the period of the Roman conquest to the present day.
Author : L. a. Waddell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473359703
L. A. Waddell’s captivating volume explores Britain’s origins and presents new historical evidence from ancient Phoenician and Sumerian civilisations. First published in 1924, this work is an exploration of the early history of Britain’s ancestry. Exploring the Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons in the pre-Roman periods, L. A. Waddell transports his readers back to 3000 BC with new historical evidence. The writer presents his historic interpretation of the Newton Stone inscription, found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in this fascinating analysis of Anglo-Saxon origin. Despite being a well-known archaeologist, Waddell’s various works on the history of civilisation have caused much controversy and he never gained recognition as a Sumerologist.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017668822
Author : John Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081132870
Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108293501
This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers a global history of Britain. Instead of tracing how Britons made the modern world, Vernon shows how the world shaped the course of Britain's modern history. Richly illustrated with figures and maps, the book features textboxes (on particular people, places and sources), further reading guides, highlighted key terms and a glossary. A supplementary online package includes additional primary sources, discussion questions, and further reading suggestions, including useful links. This textbook is an essential resource for introductory courses on the history of modern Britain.
Author : Britons,Old Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
ISBN : NLS:V000550258
Author : Oisín Plumb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Britons
ISBN : 2503583474
"A study of the lives and legacy of Picts and Britons in the Irish Church, looking at their impact on early medieval Irish society and how this impact came to be perceived in later centuries. Between the fifth and ninth centuries AD, the peoples of Britain, Ireland, and their surrounding islands were constantly interacting, sharing cultures and ideas that shaped and reshaped their communities and the way they lived. The influence of religious figures from Ireland on the development of the Church in Britain was profound, and the fame of monasteries such as Iona, which they established, remains to this day. Yet with the exception of St Patrick, far less attention has been paid to the role of the Britons and Picts who travelled west into Ireland, despite their equally significant impact. This book aims to redress the balance by offering a detailed exploration of the evidence for British and Pictish men and women in the early medieval Irish Church, and asking what we can piece together of their lives from the often fragmentary sources. It also considers the ways in which writers of later ages viewed these migrants, and examines how the shaping of the migration narrative throughout the centuries had a major effect on the way that the earliest centuries of the church came to be viewed in later years in both Scotland and Ireland. In doing so, this volume offers important new insights into our understanding of the relationships between Britain and Ireland in this period.00Oisín Plumb is originally from Edinburgh. He completed his PhD in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. He now lives in Orkney, where he is a lecturer at the Institute for Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands."--Page 4 de la couverture
