David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, BAFTA winning film-maker and presenter. He produced and presented the award winning series – Black & British: A Forgotten History, Union With David Olusoga and the BAFTA winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. Among his other presenting credits are The World’s War, and the landmark BBC arts series Civilizations.

David is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and the author or co-author of eight books including – Black & British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2014. His other titles include The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, and Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress. He writes for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.

Top Titles

• The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (2014)
• Black & British: A
• Forgotten History (2016)
• Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress (2018)