The Long History of African and Caribbean People in Britain

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

There remains a tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush. Yet, 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.

Professor Hakim Adi is the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain— he has been researching and writing about the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain for decades. Hakim joins Dan to chart a course through British history with an unobscured view of the actions of African and Caribbean people, sharing the stories of the Africans in Britain during the Roman period, Black Tudors, Stuarts and Victorians, and shedding light on the Windrush Myth.

This episode was produced by Hannah Ward and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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1:02.8	Find out more at gov.uk forward slash help for households today.
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1:21.1	On this podcast, we're talking about something completely different.
1:25.1	We're talking about the great broad sweep of history.
1:26.8	We are going back to the prehistoric.
1:28.9	We're coming right the way forward to the present.
1:30.5	We're talking about African and Caribbean people in Britain.
1:34.1	We're talking about their presence here on these shores long before the 20th century.
1:39.1	And people assume the rise of multicultural Britain began.
1:42.8	The oldest complete human skeleton ever found in Britain.
1:46.4	So called Shederman, who lived around 9,000 years ago.
1:50.6	Shederman had dark skin.
1:54.0	And when the Romans arrived 2,000 years ago, they brought with them many,
1:58.0	men and women of African origin.
2:00.7	The story of Africans and then West Indians in British history is a fascinating one.
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