David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, the author of several books and a columnist for the Observer, The Voice and BBC History Magazine, also writing for the Guardian and the New Statesman. He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the multi-award winning BBC series Britain¿s Forgotten Slave Owners. He is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and in 2019 was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration. Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. A children's edition, Black and British: A Short, Essential History was published in 2020.
Section - i: List of Illustrations Introduction - ii: Introduction: The Changing Idea of the Home Chapter - 1: Where to Start? Deeds, Documents, and Archives Chapter - 2: Britain
s Early Homes: Towns and Villages Before the Georgian Age Chapter - 3: The Georgian Home: The Birth of the Modern City Chapter - 4: The Victorian City: A Tale of Two Nations Chapter - 5: The Devil
s Acre: The Crisis of the Slums Chapter - 6: Life at `The Laurels
: The Victorian Suburbs Chapter - 7: A Home in Suburbia: The Expanding Middle Class Chapter - 8: Homes for Heroes: A Semi-Detached Britain Chapter - 9: The War is Over: The Age of Austerity to the Renovation Boom Section - iii: Conclusion Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Resources and Bibliography Index - vi: Index
