For some, the series could be seen as destroying the last safe space for those nostalgic of a certain kind of past. I, for one, welcome that opening, writes Olivette Otele
. I was about to see a stunning dark-skinned woman portraying one of England’s famous queens in a British period drama. The ridiculous anxiety and excitement I felt was abnormal and yet palpable. As a historian of colonisation, I was interested in seeing how the question would be tackled in the series. I was acutely aware of the lack of interest period dramas have displayed in connecting colonial history withhistory.
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