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“A vital corrective that enhances our understanding of black British history by moving the narrative outside of London

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— Steve McQueen
“A revelation … told with such love and tender, evocative prose that it immediately colourises the present

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— Nesrine Malik
“Genuinely pioneering and transformative histories only come along rarely, but this wonderfully immersive, wide-ranging account of the years when Black Britain acquired its own agency is undoubtedly one such.

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