David Olusoga

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter, and BAFTA winning filmmaker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a columnist for The Observer. He presents the BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the series Black & British: A Forgotten History and Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. He is the Creative Director of Uplands Television Limited, a Bristol based independent production company, through which he develops and exec-produces history and arts projects. He is the author of six books, including Black & British: A Forgotten History, The World’s War, Black & British A Short Essential History,The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress, and A House Through Time. David is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and sits on the Scott Trust.