He is the author or co-author of seven books, including - Black & British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The World's War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2014. Black & British A Short Essential History was a Waterstones Book Of The Year, Non-Fiction winner at the Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2021 and Book of the Year, Children's Non-fiction at the 2021 British Book Awards. His other titles are The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress and A House Through Time. He writes journalism and comment for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine.
David is a recipient of the BAFTA Special Award, the British Academy's President's Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Literature, The Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.
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