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 also writes 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 Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. Among his other presenting credits are The World’s War, and The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files. David was also one of the presenters on the BBC landmark arts series Civilizations. He is the Creative Director of Uplands Television Limited and the author of seven books including - Black & British: A Forgotten History, which has been was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The World’s 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 Writers' Choice Awards 2021 and_Book of the Year, Children's non-fiction at the 2021 British Book Awards. 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. He sits on the Scott Trust (the body that acts of proprietor of the Guardian Newspaper) and is a recipient of both the British Academy's Presidents Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal.