October marks the start of Black History Month (BHM) , a time to recognise and celebrate the invaluable contributions of black people to British economy, culture, and history. The focus of BHM is about writing back into history those events and activities that have been overlooked or deliberately ignored in mainstream narratives.

Liverpool Cathedral's Black History Month Lecture will be presented by David Olusoga.

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 presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time.

He produced and presented the award winning series - Black & British: A Forgotten History, Union With David Olusoga 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, Extra Life- a Short History of Living Longer and the landmark BBC arts series Civilizations.

He is the author or co-author of seven books including - Black & British: A Forgotten History, which 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 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. His other titles are 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. He writes journalism and comment for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.

David is a recipient of the BAFTA Special Award, the British Academy's Presidents Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Literature, The Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.

Black History Month Lecture: David Olusoga