Black Victorians

<p>A landmark work of revisionist history exploring and celebrating the lives of Black Victorians.\nOur 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.\nIn 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.</p>

History

John Woolf

Keisha N. Abraham

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Duckworth Books

<p>On both sides of the Atlantic, the 19th-century public flocked to see dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies and other freaks. Drawing on recently discovered material, this book uncovers the stories of the individuals who were exploited and then marginalized in histories of the showmen. Through the lives of stars such as the conjoined twins Chang and Eng and Queen Victorias pet Tom Thumb, it explores the birth of celebrity culture and our fascination with otherness.</p>

The Wonders

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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