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Artist: Matteo Perez

Edmond Halley worked on a wide range of scientific problems before becoming Astronomer Royal in 1720

to explorers picking their way through the coral reefs of the West Indies

Black and British: A Forgotten History Interest_London and Greenwich can be seen in theIn this vital re examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Author: David Olusoga Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan blackamoors and the global slave trading empire.