I have met other black and mixed-race people who were victims of racism, often far worse than anything I experienced, and who… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Most people involved in the delivery of history, in universities, publishing, museums and the heritage industry, are aware that we have a… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal memories of the broadcast of 'Civilisation'. I was born the year afterwards. But the many personal stories… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I've received tweets that I suspect people wouldn't have sent in 2015. Is that a changed country or is that people who… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I have always been most drawn to those moments from the past when people from distant lands and different societies made contact… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
There's always been a snobby dismissal of football and the emotions it elicits in millions of people. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I have met other black and mixed-race people who were victims of racism, often far worse than anything I experienced, and who have taken… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
