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David Olusoga

David Olusoga is a historian and broadcaster

October 2023

  • Illustration by Lyndon Hayes of David Olusoga standing in front of warring soldiers with a castle in the background

    ‘We live in a complicated country’: David Olusoga on the UK’s contested union, then and now

    The historian’s new TV series, Union, exposes the contradictions and conflicting identities that have beset the United Kingdom from its earliest alliances to our present divisions

August 2023

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    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: The bee and the ship – episode 1

    Revisited: The first episode in the Cotton Capital series explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry

July 2023

  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Unequal Leisure web version

    When I was growing up, our leisure centre was a lifeline. Now it’s been boarded up

    David Olusoga
  • Two white women in corseted costumes surrounded by eight grinning men in blackface with shiny top hats from a 1963 episode of the Black and White Minstrel Show

    Should we confront the toxic legacy of blackface … or just forget it?

April 2023

  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork

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    Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

    Episode one of new podcast series Cotton Capital explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, had links to slavery
  • Cotton Capital podcast artwork

    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

    Episode one of the new Guardian podcast series Cotton Capital explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry
  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork. 5000x3000px, with title, with logo

    Cotton Capital
    Episode 1: The bee and the ship – podcast

    Episode one of the new Guardian podcast series Cotton Capital explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry

March 2023

  • TRAIL for David Olusoga's Cotton Capital article

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    Slavery and the Guardian: the ties that bind us

  • Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    David Olusoga on the Guardian’s links to slavery: ‘That reality can’t be negotiated with’ - video

January 2023

  • A mural commemorating the meeting of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma in Mexico City.

    Book of the day
    On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock review – a whole new world

    In a reversal of traditional historical accounts, Dodds Pennock tells the story of indigenous Americans’ first steps in Europe

December 2022

  • The first episode of the Sussex’s Netflix documentary was watched by 2.4 million people.

    Meghan and Harry’s documentary has hit the raw nerve of tabloid prejudice

    David Olusoga
    I was an interviewee in the Netflix series. The scale and fury of the backlash to the comments on race and royals is revelatory

September 2022

  • Queen Elizabeth II meeting crowds lining the streets in Bathurst, Australia, in 1982.

    David Olusoga on the Queen, the Commonwealth and the monarchy’s future

    With the death of the Queen, many think the end is near for the institution she fought so hard for. What realities lie ahead for King Charles III?

March 2022

  • The late campaigner Olive Morris appears in London’s Windrush Square in the StoryTrails app.

    Into the metaverse: my plan to level up Britain – with the 3D internet and a Blackpool ‘queercoaster’

    From a dome celebrating smog-free Sheffield to a rollercoaster ride through Blackpool’s LGBTQ+ past, presenter and historian David Olusoga reveals how cutting edge tech can show us a new Britain

February 2022

  • Illustration shows a thriving plant in the sunshine and a dead one in the dark

    Much as we love the NHS, we can no longer ignore the ethnic inequalities that beset it

    David Olusoga
    A new report shows that the health service, like other institutions, has a deep-seated problem, a blight that Covid has made harder to ignore

January 2022

  • A miner's daughter carries a young child in her arms in Wigan during the coal strike of 1921.

    Time collapsed as I saw how my grandad lived a century ago. History turned intimate

    David Olusoga
  • Illustration by Nate Kitch.

    Britain’s shameful slavery history matters – that’s why a jury acquitted the Colston Four

    David Olusoga

December 2021

  • Nigel Farage

    Culture warriors sallied forth, only to be defeated by their own ineptitude

    David Olusoga
  • bell hooks.

    bell hooks remembered: ‘She embodied everything I wanted to be’

November 2021

  • Illustration showing big ben, london, south east and grey horizon of the north of England

    Being betrayed is nothing new for the north. But that won’t lessen the blow

    David Olusoga
    Tackling the historical regional inequalities demands an effort akin to German reunification. ‘Levelling up’ was never more than rhetorical

October 2021

  • Michaela Coel in a scene from HBO’s I May Destroy You.

    Who gets to define ‘Britishness’ when making TV? Not people of colour, that’s for sure

    David Olusoga
    Ofcom’s report reveals television workforces still fail to resemble the British population
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