Sat 25 April 2026, 7.30pm. Multi-award-winning producer, presenter, historian, BAFTA winning film-maker, broadcaster, author, historian and star of BBC Celebrity Traitors 2025.
David is widely known for writing and presenting his the long-running BBC history series, ‘A House Through Time’ as well as being executive producer and presenter of the BBC series, ‘Union’. David is a 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. David was recently invited to host a landmark interview with former president Barack Obama. In 2025, David received honorary degrees from the University of Leicester and Bristol for his outstanding work as social historian.
David is the author and co-author of several 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.
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.
This special event includes a Q&A + Book signing after the talk.
All Tickets: £26 + Booking fee
