David Olusoga: History’s Missing Chapters
6 February, 2026 @ 19:30 – 22:30
Doors Open
6:30pmShort Description
Talking for the first time in Salisbury City HallAges
14+ *‘Celebrity Faithful’, BBC celebrity Traitors finalist, BAFTA award winning producer, writer and historian, Professor David Olusoga will be bringing his brand-new history talk to Salisbury City Hall on Friday 6th February.
David Olusoga: History’s Missing Chapters.
Professor David Olusoga OBE examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten. Taking examples from the world wars, the Industrial revolution and other pivotal moments in global history David uncovers history’s missing persons.
David has become a household name over the years, more recently interviewing president Barack Obama whilst also reaching the finals of the BBC hit TV series, ‘Celebrity Traitors’, David is now back on BBC 2 with his brand-new series of ‘Empire’
David is the author or co-author of eight 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.
David’s other television programs include ‘Union’ He also writes and presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time. 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.
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.
David Olusoga’s books will be available on the evening. David will also be signing books after his live talk + Q&A.
*all under 18’s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian on a maximum 1:1 ratio
Please note this event includes a number of tiered seats. Rows O-EE are within the tiered section and are only accessible via stairs. There are only 2 aisles in this bank of seats, these are either side of the central set of seats
