'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
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