Winner of the 2021 British Book Awards, Book of the Year (Children's Illustrated & Nonfiction) Shortlisted for 2020 Waterstones Book of the Year From Roman times to the present day this is a short, essential introduction to Black British history for YA readers, by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian's Wall right up to the present day. This young adult version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, and portraits. Macmillan Children's Books will donate 50p from every copy sold to The Black Curriculum, a social enterprise founded in 2019 by young people to address the lack of Black British history in the UK Curriculum.