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The Long Wave: How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer

Historian David Olusoga sheds light on Hezekiah Moscow, a mysterious migrant seeking a better life in Victorian London. Plus, my suya obsession

The Guardian - UK

The true story behind A Thousand Blows by the show's historical advisor

Steven Knight’s story of boxing and thievery is rooted in reality

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Eddie Redmayne’s big-budget assassination thriller

Lashana Lynch also stars in Sky Atlantic’s adaptation of The Day of the Jackal. Plus: the final episode of David Olusoga’s fascinating history series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: it’s the most emotional night on the telly calendar

Tears will flow as the nation’s unsung heroes are celebrated at the Pride of Britain Awards. Plus: fascinating war stories from Berlin and London. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

David Olusoga’s new book joins the struggle to make Black history mainstream

For decades, Black history in the UK has been siloed from the mainstream, as if incidental to the nation’s history. Black History Month in October is dedicated to celebrating Black heritage, but the rest of the year, it feels largely neglected and ignored. Public historian and broadcaster David Olusoga, is…

The Conversation

Survey showing UK’s loss of pride in its past is encouraging, says historian

Public choosing ‘Shakespeare over invasion’ and becoming more discerning about Britain’s history, says Alan Lester

The Guardian - UK

UK riots: immigration is a boon, not a curse

After decades of hostility, politicians of all stripes must unite in promoting the many benefits that incomers bring to our nation

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: the UK neighbourhoods where 100% of crimes go unsolved

Isobel Yeung leads an alarming Dispatches investigation. Plus, the trauma behind Olympian Daley Thompson’s life. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘A galvanising sense of unity’: a football team that is multiracial and distinctively English

As Ollie Watkins scored in the Euros semifinal, the country celebrated as one – with a team that’s comfortable in its own skin, whatever the colour

The Guardian - UK

David Olusoga reveals how a murder ‘shaped generations’ of his family

The historian relates the impact on his relatives of an 1890s crime committed by his great-great-grandfather

The Guardian - UK

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The Guardian - UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to the top events at this year's 'Woodstock of the mind'

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

Evening Standard

Sunderland may not be like London, Cynthia Erivo, but neither is it like the Britain of old

Challenging racism wherever it expresses itself is not the same as disparaging a place because it is too white

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TV tonight: a remarkable story about abducted Ukrainian children

A staggering account of the families who travelled to Russia to find their loved ones. Plus: the return of MasterChef: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Conversation

Plan to 'retain and explain' controversial statues is flawed – why we should always question our monuments

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Jamie Oliver returns with five essential ‘hero’ ingredients

The inventive chef offers a series of simple hacks that actually work. Plus, Panorama’s Challenging Putin – Moscow and the Mutiny. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Boiling Point; Partygate; Beckham; Bargain – review

The film-spinoff restaurant drama is all about people not plates. Elsewhere, a Partygate docudrama is painful viewing and David Beckham bares little

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Evening Standard

OPINION - David Olusoga: levelling up rhetoric is nothing new – the rest of the UK has always resented London’s allure

One of Britain’s most pre-eminent historians on how the capital’s gravitational pull for talent and investment has been regarded as a weakness for the Union

The Guardian - UK

Union With David Olusoga review – finally! A history show that’s not deathly dull

Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a fascinating dive into the creation of a unified Britain

David Olusoga takes us on a journey that begins in 1707 with the creation of a new nation. Plus, a grim dramatisation of the Yorkshire Ripper’s reign of terror. Here’s what to watch this evening

Evening Standard

Union on BBC Two review: a complex look at what it means - or not - to be British

Union won’t necessarily draw the type of viewers that do not already watch history programmes. But it is a fascinating look at the UK’s dark past

The Guardian - UK

‘We live in a complicated country’: David Olusoga on the UK’s contested union, then and now

The historian’s new TV series, Union, exposes the contradictions and conflicting identities that have beset the United Kingdom from its earliest alliances to our present divisions

The Conversation

Too often learning 'British history' means learning 'English history' – but overburdened schoolteachers are not to blame

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland tacked on when they affected events in England.

The National (Scotland)

Top TV historian calls for UK schools to teach all four nations' histories

A TOP historian has called for schools in the UK to teach the history of all four nations.

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