He is also one of the three presenters on the BBC's landmark Arts series Civilizations. David was also a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and writes for The Guardian and is a columnist for The Observer and BBC History Magazine. His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism and Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress.

David is also the author of Black & British: A Forgotten History which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His most recent TV series include Empire (BBC 2), Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC 2), The World’s War (BBC 2), 3 seasons of A House Through Time (BBC 2) and the BAFTA winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC 2). Despite having a difficult time in school Olusoga was. Find out more about Professor David Olusoga OBEĭavid Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and film-maker. Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History explores the long and fraught relationship between Black people and Britain. Watch - Britain's Forgotten Slaveholders.

Read - Britain can no longer ignore its darkest chapters - we must teach black history Join us in an open discussion with Professor Olusoga about his work and about how we can improve the ways in which we think about and remember our past.Īny questions for Professor Olusoga must be submitted in advance by Monday 26th October. In his works, Professor Olusoga has highlighted how the teaching, learning, and commemorating of history in Britain has erased the centuries-long presence of Black people on the British Isles, as well as the centrality of colonialism and slavery in shaping modern British history. As part of Aston University's Black History Month, the Department of History, Languages and Translation will be hosting a free online event with award-winning historian and TV personality, Professor David Olusoga OBE.

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