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David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a columnist for The Observer. He writes also for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.
He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the award winning series Black & British: A Forgotten History and the BAFTA winning BritainтАЩs Forgotten Slave Owners. Among his other presenting credits are The WorldтАЩs War, and The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files, Extra Life, a Short History of Living Longer and the landmark BBC arts series Civilisations.
He is the author of seven books including тАУ Black & British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The WorldтАЩs War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2014. Black & British A Short Essential History which was a Waterstones Book Of The Year, Non-Fiction winner at the Quiz WritersтАЩ Choice Awards 2021 and Book of the Year, ChildrenтАЩs non-fiction at the 2021 British Book Awards. The KaiserтАЩs Holocaust: GermanyтАЩs Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, Civilisations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress and A House Through Time.
David is a recipient of both the British AcademyтАЩs Presidents Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Literature, The Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society. He also sits on the Scott Trust (the body that acts as proprietor of the Guardian Newspaper).
