Annual Lecture in Black History Understanding the past: Diversity in England, Scotland and the 'British Isles'

Investigations into diversity in the ‘British Isles' are sometimes dismissed as ‘political correctness' gone mad, or ‘wokism'. This soundbite hides the narrative that there is ‘real history out there'. And it is impossible to tell the ‘British story' without including diverse multiple voices.

The ‘island story' is the complex history of everyone who has lived or been connected to these islands. One does not have to choose between Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They are all part of this island's story. This presentation will critically examine evidence for diversity in British history and explore ideas of British identity.

Dr Onyeka Nubia is a pioneering and internationally recognised historian, writer and presenter who is reinventing our perceptions of the Renaissance, British history, Black Studies and intersectionalism. Onyeka is the leading historian on the status and origins of Africans in pre-colonial England from antiquity to 1603.

Onyeka is also an expert on diversity in Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Edwardian England and Britain. He has helped academia and the general public to an entirely new perspective on otherness, colonialism, imperialism and the Black British contribution to World Wars I and II.

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