Events

Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with a powerful conversation on Queer South Asian stories with Churnjeet Mahn, co-author of ‘Desi Queers’. 

To mark 30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act, activist Rachel Charlton-Dailey joins Caro Clarke to discuss ‘Ramping Up Rights’ which brings together inspiring stories of over 100 years of disability activism.

Dig deeper with the Thought Exercise series at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Danny Dorling, author of ‘Seven Children’, provides an eye-opening investigation into childhood inequality in post-pandemic Britain. 

Join Martin Plaut for the launch of his new book, Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement. 

Join Rachel Charlton-Dailey at Collected to talk about her “much-needed take on disability history and our power in protest.”

Rosie Whitehouse provides a poignant account of two young women – one of them her own mother-in-law – and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France. Join her at the Chelsea History Festival as she talks about her latest book, ‘Two Sisters’.

Join Graeme Rigby at the Lit & Phil for the launch of his new book, ‘Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring’! 

Sujeev Sahota talks to writer, broadcaster and Observer columnist Kenan Malik about his essential book ‘Not So Black and White’.