An Evening with Professor David Olusoga OBE

BAFTA award-winning producer, author, historian, and presenter, Professor David Olusoga OBE is welcomed back to St George’s Bristol. David Olusoga is pleased to say he is a Bristolian, and the City remains proud of his work.

He has become a household name over the years, more recently interviewing Presidents and reaching the finals of the BBC hit TV series, Celebrity Traitors.

Back on BBC 2 with his series of Empire, with a new series of A House Through Time scheduled for 2026.

David is the author or co-author of eight books, including Black & British: A Forgotten History (awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize): The World’s War, Black & British A Short Essential History, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism.

David’s other television programs include the acclaimed Union. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, and a columnist for The Observer, David also writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice, and BBC History Magazine.

A recipient of both the British Academy’s President’s Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History, David is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Historical Society.

A Q&A plus book signing will follow the presentation, offering a chance to meet one of the UK’s foremost public historians. Books will be available to purchase at the event.