Black History Month event

Thu Oct 13 2022 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Lecture Theatre B, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh

School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Publisher/HostSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Black History Month event
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African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
About this Event

Acclaimed historian Hakim Adi demonstrates in his new book 'African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History', 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. Libyan 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 in Black Lives Matter campaigns.


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Lecture Theatre B, University of Edinburgh, 40 George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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