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An evening with Professor David Olusoga:
The Global History of the British Cup of Tea, included in The Missing Chapters of History
BAFTA award-winning producer, author, historian, and presenter, David, will be presenting a very special & seasonal talk at Lichfield Cathedral on Thursday 3rd December 2026
He examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten
Also, in a brand-new subject for 2026, David Olusoga uses art and photography, history and humour to uncover the strange and unexpected history of our national drink, the British Cup of Tea
There is nothing more British than a cup of tea. Tea is our national drink and our national obsession. Yet the history of tea is the ultimate global story. It links over 350 years of British history to the histories of China, India, the Caribbean, and the United States. It encompasses the Boston Tea Party, the Opium Wars, and the history of the British East India Company. It is a story that involves industrial espionage and a vast forgotten migration within India, and the creation in Britain of a whole new world of domestic traditions and even new consumer household goods
David Olusoga 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 has been back on BBC 2 with his brand-new series of Empire, with a new series of A House Through Time scheduled for the Spring
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
You will hear one of the UK’s foremost public historians share with you how he has become a respected master storyteller
