David Olusoga
David Olusoga is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. In addition to writing history books, he is also a BAFTA-winning TV presenter and producer.
Books by David Olusoga
Black and British: A Short, Essential History
by David Olusoga
Black and British: A Short, Essential History by historian David Olusoga is the children's book version of his book Black and British: A Forgotten History. Starting with the Romans, it goes through to the 20th century, highlighting an important part of history that was traditionally ignored. As Olusoga—now a Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester—writes in the opening lines of the book, "When I was at school there was no Black history."
Black and British: A Forgotten History
by David Olusoga
David Olusoga is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, and has done much to heighten awareness of Black history as a part of UK history as a whole. In Black and British: A Forgotten History, published in 2016, he takes British Black history all the way back to Roman times and puts it in a global context. This is a serious history book that’s also highly readable. If you like it, you might like to see David Olusoga’s own reading recommendations, in his 2010 interview with us on race and slavery.
Interviews with David Olusoga
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Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
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Islam’s Black Slaves
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Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle
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The Interesting Narrative
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Kolyma Tales
by Varlam Shalamov
The best books on Race and Slavery, recommended by David Olusoga
The best books on Race and Slavery, recommended by David Olusoga
Race is a real and powerful force and one he has spent his adult life trying to understand, says Anglo-Nigerian historian, writer and producer, David Olusoga. He talks us through five books on the tragedy of slavery—from the horrors of the gulag, to the plantations of Virginia, to the Islamic slave trade.
