Kavita Puri in conversation with David Olusoga OBE
| Dates: | 11 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 18:00 - 19:45 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | Creative Manchester |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16, Secondary schools |
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Join David Olusoga, Professor of Public History, in conversation with journalist, radio broadcaster, and author, Kavita Puri. Together they will be discussing Kavita’s multi-award winning BBC podcast Three Million, which explores one of the darkest chapters in Britain’s colonial history: the 1943 Bengal Famine, where an estimated three million Indians, who were British subjects died.
David and Kavita will discuss how the podcast was made - from the research in the archives to finding interviewees who were alive at the time; why it has taken so long for this history to be discussed both in Britain and in India; and why the public debate around Empire in Britain is still so fraught.
The event will be introduced by Professor Anindita Ghosh from the History Department at the University of Manchester. For the last 25 years, Anindita has taught and researched the cultural and social history of colonial India, especially Bengal. She is widely published on the topics of vernacular print cultures, urban history, protest and violence. Her most recent research is on anti-colonial revolutionaries in India in the early twentieth century, their transnational connections and impact, as evidenced in popular visual and oral cultures.
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Roscoe Building
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