Black Victorians : hidden in history / Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf.
By: Abraham, Keshia Nicole [author.]
.Contributor(s): Woolf, John (Historian) [author.].Publisher: London : Duckworth, 2022Description: xxv, 355 pages : black and white illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780715654453; 9780715654460.Subject(s): Black people -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Black people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901DDC classification: 941.00496 Summary: "Our vision of Victorian Britain tends to the monolithic – white, imperialist, prurient, patrician. However, though until very recently overlooked in our textbooks, there was another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched, dynamic and revelatory history, Woolf and Abraham reach back into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to protestor William Cuffay to attention-grabbing abolitionists Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential – not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race"-- taken from Duckworth site. https://www.duckworthbooks.co.uk/book/black-victorians-hidden-in-history/
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.00496 ABR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020482 |
"Our vision of Victorian Britain tends to the monolithic – white, imperialist, prurient, patrician. However, though until very recently overlooked in our textbooks, there was another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched, dynamic and revelatory history, Woolf and Abraham reach back into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to protestor William Cuffay to attention-grabbing abolitionists Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential – not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race"-- taken from Duckworth site.
https://www.duckworthbooks.co.uk/book/black-victorians-hidden-in-history/