David Olusoga OBE in conversation with Hannah Barker
Manchester Art Gallery
Saturday 17 August 2019, 2pm–4pm
David Olusoga OBE is a historian, broadcaster and film-maker who also became Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester earlier this year. He is well known for his Bafta-winning TV series, Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, co-presenting role the BBC’s remake of Civilisations and for A House Through Time.
His recent book and TV series Black and British: A Forgotten History is wide-ranging and important project that explores Black British history from Roman times to the present day within the context of national and global history.
It provides a brilliant focus for the themes of protest and freedom that will be discussed at this event.
This is a Manchester Histories event.
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Part of Get Together and Get Things Done.
