David Olusoga talks about history as if it were a lover. The study of the past is a 40-year romance that animates and excites him.
And like any infatuated lover, he sees the object of his affection everywhere. He sees it when he is out of an evening: “I love having a drink in Covent Garden and thinking about the Georgian rakes, drinking wine, looking at the same views.” He sees it as central to how his parents, a Black Nigerian man and a white woman from Newcastle, met: “It’s a…
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