{"id":20225,"date":"2022-12-08T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221343"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:12:14","slug":"black-victorians-radicals-muses-inmates-aristocrats","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/black-victorians-radicals-muses-inmates-aristocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates &#038; aristocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 08 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>From political agitators and artist\u2019s muses to composers, sailors, asylum inmates and the goddaughter of the queen herself, black people led a variety of fascinating lives in Victorian Britain. Dr John Woolf shares some of their stories \u2013 both ordinary and extraordinary \u2013 with Ellie Cawthorne.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-221343-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Blackvictorians-ee700c2.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Blackvictorians-ee700c2.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Blackvictorians-ee700c2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>John Woolf and Keshia N Abraham are the co-authors of <em>Black Victorians: Hidden in History<\/em> (Duckworth Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/black-victorians-hidden-in-history\/9780715654453&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Black-Victorians-History-John-Woolf\/dp\/0715654454?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2F9780715654453&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Thursday, 08 December 2022 at 12:00 am From political agitators and artist\u2019s muses to composers, sailors, asylum inmates and the goddaughter of the queen herself, black people led a variety of fascinating lives in Victorian Britain. 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