The BBC has been accused of pushing a negative agenda against the British Empire in a new documentary, The three-part series, Empire, has been called “morally self-righteous”.
Presented by David Olusoga, a British-Nigerian writer, the show follows the UK’s colonial expansion from Tudor times to the First World War. However, a historian has said the show offers a biased point of view.
This is not the only criticism the BBC has faced recently with director-general Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Deborah Turness handing in their resignations.
The two were forced to resign after Donald Trump threatened the corporation with a billion-dollar lawsuit after an edit of one of his speeches.
The edited video made it appear that the president had urged supporters to raid the US Capitol.
Professor Lawrence Goldman, an emeritus fellow at St Peter’s College, Oxford and member of the History Reclaimed campaign group, said Mr Olusoga’s Empire “isn’t interested in much beyond victimhood”.
The professor says the programme did not show Britain’s efforts to spread democracy and improve educational standards worldwide.
David Olusoga, who appeared in the first ever Celebrity Traitors, has been awarded with an OBE for his contributions to public understanding of Black British history and the legacy of the British Empire.
Olusoga attended the University of Liverpool, where he studied the history of slavery, graduating in 1994 with a BA (Hons) in History.
He followed this with a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism at Leeds Trinity University.
You can watch the show now on BBC iPlayer.
Express.co.uk has approached the BBC for comment.
