BBC’s new British Empire documentary slammed as attack – ‘morally self-righteous’ | UK | News

The BBC has been accused of pushing a negative agenda against the British Empire in a new documentary: Three-part series Empire has been called “morally self-indulgent”.

Hosted by British-Nigerian author David Olusoga, the series follows Britain’s colonial expansion from the Tudor period to the First World War. But one historian said the show presented a biased view.

This is not the only criticism the BBC has faced recently as director general Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Deborah Turness handed in their resignations.

The pair were forced to resign after Donald Trump threatened the company with a billion-dollar lawsuit after one of their speeches was altered.

The edited video showed the president urging his supporters to storm the US Capitol.

Professor Lawrence Goldman, an honorary lecturer at St Peter’s College, Oxford, and a member of campaign group History Reclaimed, said Mr Olusoga’s Empire was “not interested in much beyond victimization”.

The professor says the program fails to demonstrate Britain’s efforts to spread democracy and improve education standards around the world.

David Olusoga, who appeared in the first Celebrity Traitors, was awarded an OBE for his contribution to public understanding of black British history and the legacy of the British Empire.

Olusoga studied the history of slavery at the University of Liverpool and graduated with a BSc (Hons) in History in 1994.

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.