Subsequently he became a television presenter, beginning in 2014 with The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire, about the Indian, African and Asian troops who fought in the First World War, followed by several other documentaries and appearances on BBC One television’s The One Show. Realising that black people were much less visible in the media and historically, Olusoga became a producer of history programmes after university, working from 2005 on programmes such as Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich, The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith and Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner? Olusoga began his TV career behind the camera, first as a researcher on the 1999 BBC series Western Front.

He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and has presented historical documentaries on the BBC, contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. From the Lewisham Mothers to Claudia Jones, you are guaranteed to learn valuable lessons from important individuals you have not heard about before.ĭavid Adetayo Olusoga OBE is an award winning British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker.

Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.David Adetayo Olusoga OBE, a British historian, presenter and filmmaker will be introducing us to the unsung heroes of Black UK History.ĭavid Olusoga, an award-winning writer and presenter, will be giving you a deep dive into the Black Heroes you may not have heard of. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.

It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire.

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