African Europeans with Olivette Otele
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Olivette Otele joined me on the podcast to discuss the long African European heritage through the lives of individuals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. On this episode of the podcast, I've got |
| 0:05.7 | the only black female history professor in the United Kingdom. Her name is Oliver Tatelli. |
| 0:11.9 | She's a professor of the history of slavery at Bristol University. She's a wonderful scholar and |
| 0:16.4 | communicator, most important evil. She shares my great love of all things maritime. She's written |
| 0:22.0 | a great new book, African Europeans, an untold story about some of the many Africans who've played |
| 0:26.4 | an important part in European history. They include one of my children's ancestors, a young boy |
| 0:33.9 | from West Africa who was taken and presented to Zal P to the Great and rose to become a great |
| 0:38.8 | aristocrat in Imperial Russia. Anyway, I digress. Enjoy this podcast. If you want to go and watch |
| 0:45.6 | our new Hastings documentary, I think it's probably on the best documentary history it's ever produced, |
| 0:50.3 | so I'm very excited about that. If you use the code 10661066, you can get a month for free and then |
| 0:59.1 | three months for this £1 euro or dollar for each of those first three months. But in the meantime, |
| 1:05.0 | everyone, here's Oliver Tatelli in joy. |
| 1:12.5 | Oliver Tatelli, thank you. Great to have you back on the podcast. Thank you. It's brilliant to be here. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay, so we're talking about African Europeans and I think so many of us, me included, have assumed |
| 1:27.2 | that Africans are a very recent presence in Europe. Talk to me about how far back you've been |
| 1:34.2 | able to identify Africans playing a part and in many cases playing a leading part in European |
| 1:40.4 | politics and culture and society. Well, I went back to the Roman Empire and as far as the |
| 1:48.1 | Roman Empire, but actually there is evidence that you can go further back, but I chose the |
| 1:54.2 | Roman Empire because it's often seen as the birth of European civilization in terms of intellectual |
| 2:01.8 | intellectual journey and things like that. So I wanted to play a bit with this idea of the |
| 2:06.8 | Roman Empire being uniquely and exclusively European. So yeah, that's where it started. |
| 2:13.6 | Third century, roughly. It's interesting, isn't it, with the Roman Empire? When you go back and |
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