Event type:

In person

Date & time:

26 Oct 2022, 14:00 – 20:30

An afternoon of Bartlett Black History Month events

Join staff and students from across the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment in celebrating Black History Month. Events include open screenings and workshops, followed by a ticketed (free) lecture from British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and filmmaker Prof David Olusoga.

David Olusoga
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An afternoon of Bartlett Black History Month events

Prof David Olusoga

Filmmaker, broadcaster and historian

Prof David Olusoga is the author of Black & British: A Forgotten History which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism and Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress.

David was also a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History, writes for The Guardian and is a columnist for The Observer and BBC History Magazine. He is one of the three presenters on the BBC's landmark Arts series Civilizations. In 2020 he held an exclusive interview with former President of the United States, Barack Obama. David's most recent book Black and British: A Short, Essential History won the Children's Illustrated & Non-Fiction book of the year at the 2021 British Book Awards. 

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

UCL staff

Availability

Yes

Organiser

The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

bartlett.comms@ucl.ac.uk