The writer and broadcaster has brought diverse stories from Britain’s past to a wider audience
The British Academy has awarded the historian David Olusoga the President’s Medal, its most prestigious accolade, for telling diverse stories from Britain’s past.
Olusoga, a writer, broadcaster and film-maker, best known as the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History, is the 39th person to be given the President’s Medal, which is awarded annually in recognition of services to the humanities and the social sciences.
