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David Harewood OBE is an actor and presenter best known for starring roles in Homeland, Supergirl, The Night Manager, Blood Diamond, Criminal Justice and Ten Per Cent. His documentary film work for the BBC includes Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister, Why is COVID Killing People of Colour and Psychosis and Me which was shortlisted for a BAFTA for best documentary. Maybe I Don’t Belong Here is his first book. 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, the author of several books and writes journalism and comment for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine. He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the multi-award-winning BBC series Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. Black and British was long-listed for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. A children’s edition, Black and British: A Short, Essential History, was published in 2020 and won Book of the Year, Children's non-fiction at the 2021 British Book Awards. In 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration. David is also a recipient of the BAFTA Special Award, the British Academy's Presidents Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History. |
