“By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads in the Barbados Labour Office and the NHS appealed to West Indian women to come to Britain and train to become nurses.”

British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster, and film-maker

David Adetayo Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and has 100 quotes on the site. He is known for presenting historical documentaries on the BBC, writing for The Guardian, and authoring Black and British: A Forgotten History, published in 2016. His work often returns to history in Britain, especially the long and often overlooked relationship between Black and British history.