The story of 12-year-old James Annesley, snatched from Dublin and sold into slavery in America in 1728, whose fate helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.
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David Harewood on Blackface: The Hidd...
Blackface used music and comedy as a delivery system for racist tropes and became the most popular form of entertainment in the Victorian era. Actor David Harewood explores the origins of Blackface minstrelsy, where white performers grotesquely darkened their skin, in early 19th-century America. ...
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You Can't Take It with You
Historian David Olusoga uncovers fresh insights into the unique lives of six icons, revealing the intimate secrets hidden in the legal artefacts left after their deaths. The wills of Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens and Beatrix Potter are reevaluated; their successes, failures and relationsh...
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Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley presents this documentary, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dangerous campaign for the vote.
