This should be essential reading for every British person (and also many Americans).

I have a personal passion about black history, as a black brit myself, and so wanted to read this, and I am genuinely surprised by just how moving and emotional this made me. Not because of the depictions of terrible things but by the amount of history that I was unaware of and just how connected I now feel to this history.

This book covers the history of black people in Britain, starting from Roman Britain, up to present day, explaining in detail the context of views and decisions from those periods of time.

This is an important work for everyone to read, to fully understand the place that Black people have in this country, not as 'recent invaders' as so many like to think, but rather as people who have been here since before England was even established.

David Olusoga, if you end up reading this, I just want to thank you for providing such a fantastic account of the history of my nation, and allowing me to learn more about my place here, and about my culture.