Professor David Olusoga OBE at The Glee Birmingham

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Sun 18May
2025

Professor David Olusoga OBE: History's Missing Chapters (14+)The Glee Club Birmingham

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In a brand-new talk for 2025 David examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten. Taking examples from the world wars, the Industrial revolution and other pivotal moments in global history David uncovers history’s missing persons.

Advance price

  • £26.00 Show Entry
  • £26.00 Wheelchair Show Entry
  • + £2.50 booking fee per ticket

Times

  • Doors open 6:30 PM
  • Last entry 7:00 PM

More info

  • Seating type Unallocated
  • Food available Yes
  • Minimum age 14+

Professor David Olusoga OBE: History’s Missing Chapters

In a brand-new talk for 2025 David examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten. Taking examples from the world wars, the Industrial revolution and other pivotal moments in global history David uncovers history’s missing persons.

David is the author or co-author of eight books including Black & British: A Forgotten History (awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize): The World’s War, Black & British A Short Essential History: The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism.

David’s recent television programs include Union with David Olusoga and upcoming in 2025 Empire with David Olusoga. He also writes and presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time. Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, and a columnist for The Observer, David also writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.

A recipient of both the British Academy’s President’s Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History David is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Literature, The Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.

His books will be available on the evening and he will be signing after his talk