“His attitudes to the Irish, Indians and working-class people were reprehensible too – my white Geordie grandparents certainly regarded him as the enemy of the working class,” he added, saying that “both sides of the historical ledger” should be acknowledged.

David Olusoga said: “I graduated into a world that treated young people better than your generation is being treated.

Rightly so and high time. David Olusoga was born in 1970s. Technology requirements for hybrid learning, £4.5m to help futureproof crops against climate change, ‘A safe environment’ – A lecturer’s experience of face-to-face teaching on campus, Nuclear engineering expert awarded RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies. You can assimilate into virtually anything you wish and thereby abolish to the extent of the assimilation any otherwise unfavorable diferences that set you apart from dominant group or advantages therefrom.

He argued that there was a common “mismatch” between the history people love to enjoy as a pastime and the perception of the work done by academics. It is perhaps not surprising that, when describing the centuries of imperial expansion, historians have underplayed the fact that Britain then led the world in human trafficking. Professor Olusoga’s award-winning programmes on race in Britain – one recalled his own experiences of racism growing up on a Newcastle council estate – have also made him one of the BBC’s most compelling presenters. “I’m glad he was there in 1940 and overwhelmed the group around Lord Halifax [to become prime minister], but nothing that happened that summer erases what happened just three years later in Bengal,” he said, on Churchill’s refusal to divert food to a famine that killed 4 million people. Such questions are more than just provocative talking points, insists Professor Olusoga. “I am almost never listened to,” he said. “That date is surely going to be a pub quiz question in the future and the outrageous and astonishing answer is 2018,” he said. the weaker but ‘more entitled’ unable to draw on merit or having exhausted as much of it as he’s got and yet feeling outcompeted becomes tempted to weaponise prejudice as his last hope to clinch a coveted goal or influence . Find it all here https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/. There is an ineliminability to this category of Darwinian survivalism driven by the ineliminabilty of stiff competitions amongst peers and non peers alike. I have been researching and writing about black British history for over 30 years but never before have I been fortunate enough to review a 600-page book on the subject, published to accompany a recent major BBC documentary. Color becomes a self preservation camouflage factor eerily same as it was and still is in the Galápagos Islands where Darwin did his seminal work. After working for several years as a basketball coach, I gained my MSc in Sport and Exercise Science at Sheffield Hallam University in 2006, and then stayed on to study for my PhD entitled "Stress & Coping: A Study of Elite Sports Coaches". “For a country which is close to being one-third black and ethnic minority, students will justifiably ask why their professors do not reflect that,” he said. It is not, however, a surprising destination for the 49-year-old, whose status as one of Britain’s most respected TV historians was cemented by his work on last year’s landmark BBC One series Civilisations alongside Mary Beard and Simon Schama, arguably the corporation’s two great academic heavyweights. Over the past few years, David’s public profile has soared, having created and presented shows including Civilisation, A House Through Time and Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, which brought to light the millions of pounds paid in compensation to slave-owners for loss of their ‘property’ when slavery was outlawed. Matthew Hedges’ case makes us think again. Twenty-five years after turning his back on academia, David Olusoga is about to give his first lecture as a university professor.

“That date is surely going to be a pub quiz question in the future and the outrageous and astonishing answer is 2018,” he said. “I’m glad he was there in 1940 and overwhelmed the group around Lord Halifax [to become prime minister], but nothing that happened that summer erases what happened just three years later in Bengal,” he said, on Churchill’s refusal to divert food to a famine that killed 4 million people. However, he was tempted to enter the classroom only after Manchester made a “very good case” for him to take the professorship. Dr Yinka Olusoga BA (Hons), PGCE, SFHEA, PhD. He said the best advice he had been given at the time was to “not worry” and “be lucky”, which he conceded was “difficult to put into action”. But unfortunately he lacks what it takes inside the particular challenge to survive without resorting to race card ( or gender card or tribal card or etc ). There is an ineliminability to this category of Darwinian survivalism driven by the ineliminabilty of stiff competitions amongst peers and non peers alike. “Our current view of the Second World War is dangerously problematic – it is giving us a false sense of history, our relationship with the Commonwealth and the world and it is contributing to us making some damaging decisions as a nation,” he said, in an unmistakable reference to Brexit.

纽约大学教务长表示，当今教育界招生多样化的方式可能有“令人反感、带有种族主义和拜物教精神”的做法. University of Liverpool alumnus and broadcaster, David Olusoga advised graduates to “be lucky” as he accepted his Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters. It’s beneficiary is not under the kind of illusion/ misconception suffered by the first category of racism above.

the weaker but ‘more entitled’ unable to draw on merit or having exhausted as much of it as he’s got and yet feeling outcompeted becomes tempted to weaponise prejudice as his last hope to clinch a coveted goal or influence . Speaking on the first night of this year’s Cultural Exchanges festival, David – who presented BBC 2’s A House Through Time – said his arguments to get academic historians involved in media debates were often ignored. He said that too often documents were seen by the media as dull and unengaging before explaining that one of the most successful historical TV programmes of recent years, Who Do You Think You Are?, was based entirely on “dusty old documents which brought celebrities to tears”. Darwinism in its most egregious form then kicks in : color coded survival strategy . And therein lies the peculiar perniciousness of color influenced competitions. He is also a regular presenter on The One Show and is one of three presenters on the BBC’s new landmark arts series Civilisations. “I did not really expect to find them [on reading lists] and learned you had to teach yourself these things,” he said. “But at the BBC, I ended up making history programmes, so it’s one of the least successful escape attempts,” he reflected on his “scenic route” into academia. #BHM2020 events, resources and more; developing preventative #COVID19 treatments and catch up with @RomeshG ahead of #LivLitFest

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors. He has evolved past. But how do you assimilate into color ?!!! Race card ( less often gender card ) in such predicaments becomes utilitarianly handy for the competitor who has otherwise run out of ideas.

“They made me think what this role could be,” explained Professor Olusoga, who hopes to explore the evolution of the popular history industry and how presentations of heritage are shaping contemporary political discourse. “Never accept anyone who tells you you’ve got it easy, or you don’t know how hard things are. And therein lies the peculiar perniciousness of color influenced competitions. Britain’s great homes, its financial system, its major ports and textile industry were all based on the enslavement of African men, women and children. David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer.

It’s beneficiary is not under the kind of illusion/ misconception suffered by the first category of racism above.

“I decided, when I was 24 or 25, that I did not want to become a historian and ran away to join the circus of TV,” Professor Olusoga told Times Higher Education. Time will tell whether his book is as influential as Peter Fryer’s Staying Power proved to be. “But you’re voting, and you’re registering to vote and I feel your generation is fighting back, stopping yourselves being treated in the way successive political parties have treated young people. Students who have pursued this type of revisionism have faced criticism for calling for the removal of memorials to former icons of Britain’s colonial past, drawing inspiration from the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. At DMU there is always something to do or see, check out our events for yourself. Olusoga explains the conditions that led to this African presence in Shakespeare’s time but curiously makes no mention of Shakespeare’s alleged friendship with an African woman. He has evolved past. “I really admire this generation who will not accept the things that my generation did,” he said, noting the absence of black historians during his time studying the history of slavery as an undergraduate at the University of Liverpool. David graduated from University of Liverpool’s Department of History before going on to study broadcasting at Leeds Trinity University. David Olusoga recalled is own graduation ceremony in the same building 22 years earlier. Race card ( less often gender card ) in such predicaments becomes utilitarianly handy for the competitor who has otherwise run out of ideas. Why is there no mention of Shakespeare's alleged friendship with an African woman. It seems likely that soon we will have more conclusive evidence that Africans were travelling to Britain long before the arrival of the Romans.