{"product_id":"black-victorians-hidden-in-history","title":"Black Victorians: Hidden in History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark work of revisionist history exploring and celebrating the lives of Black Victorians.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur vision of Victorian Britain tends to the monolithic \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Victorians\u003c\/em\u003e shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43599933538561,"sku":"9780715654880","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-749.png?v=1710263097","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/black-victorians-hidden-in-history","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}