David Olusoga

Friday 16 January 2026

2H2E186 Portrait of Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880) by Camille Silvy, 1862

Multi-Award-Winning producer, presenter, historian and professor, David Olusoga examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten.

 

David Olusoga is a household name, having been recently selected to star in the hit BBC TV series, ‘Celebrity Traitors’, presenter of the award winning BBC television series, ‘A House Through Time’ and ‘The Union.’

Professor David Olusoga is a bestselling author, including titles, ‘Black & British: A Forgotten History’ (awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize): The World’s War, Black & British A Short Essential History: The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism.

Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, and a columnist for The Observer, David also writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.

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