Previous events
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APR 24
Cambridge Literary Festival: Tessa Blackstone
Labour member of the House of Lords and former minister for education, Tessa Blackstone joins us to share how she came to write her definitive new biography of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the undaunted campaigner who dedicated her life to securing the right to vote for women. She led the suffragists, who were distinct from the more well-known suffragettes because they campaigned within the law...
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APR 02
Oxford Literary Festival: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
Writer and academic Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid talks about the profound impact books have on shaping a life and makes a rallying call for books in a world where literature is being squeezed out of education. Cregan-Reid explains his own life in books, a life that started turbulently through a disastrous education, truancy and petty crime but ultimately...
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MAR 26
Brendon Books: Edward Whitley
In October 1851, a chance meeting in a bookshop in Piccadilly changed the course of literary history. For it was here that Mary Ann Evans, an unworldly young scholar from the Midlands, was first introduced to the love of her life, the critic and philosopher George Lewes. Encouraged and supported by Lewes, Evans went on to become the queen of literary...
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MAR 09
Jewish Book Week: Dave Rich
In a recent Sky News interview, Simon Sebag Montefiore observed, “In historical terms, what we’re seeing is the end of the taboo on antisemitism,” 80 years after the end of World War Two. Now, the acclaimed historian and author of Jerusalem joins CST’s Dave Rich, whose Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into Our World and How You Can Change It has been fully updated...
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MAR 05
Jewish Book Week: David Pleat
David Pleat, Britain’s most successful Jewish football manager, has been at the heart of football’s evolution for over six decades. From managing Nuneaton Borough aged 26 to a four-decade association with Tottenham Hotspur, his career has included transformative roles, three stints as caretaker manager, and working with figures like Alan Sugar, Daniel...
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NOV 09
Bridport Literary Festival: Andrew Pierce
Approaching fifty, journalist and broadcaster, Andrew Pierce, tells the moving story about his search for his birth mother. He had lived in an orphanage in Cheltenham for more than two years until his adoption by a loving family who nurtured him. As his career flourished and despite feeling a sense of betrayal to his adoptive parents, Pierce tentatively...
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NOV 08
Bridport Literary Festival: Liam Fox
With Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is gripped by concerns over energy security. Yet, there is an even greater threat ahead – one that is much more likely to shape the events of the 21st century than competition for oil or gas. A combination of an ever-increasing global population, climate change, industrialisation, urbanisation and limited...
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NOV 02
Bridport Literary Festival: Ian Acheson
Ian Acheson has served for twenty years as both an officer and Prison Governor. In 2015, the then Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove, asked him to lead an independent review of prison extremism which laid bare a corporate culture of ineptitude, secrecy and arrogance that threatened national security. Nothing has changed Screwed is the inside story of...
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OCT 26
Petworth Festival: Iain Dale
Having just have emerged from a landmark general election, journalist and leading LBC broadcaster Iain Dale reflects both on this and on his fascinating study of general elections over the last 200 years and the impact they have had on our lives. Contributors to Iain’s book includes leading commentators John Curtice, Julia Langdon, Simon Heffer, Peter...
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OCT 26
Wimbledon BookFest: Gyles Brandreth
Gyles will be taking a whistlestop tour through his latest books: expect 60 second romps through British history, the seven secrets of happiness and why they matter, and a revisit of his life in Westminster, warts and all. ‘Brandreth has been an expert cheerer-upper for more than 60 years . . . full of fun, famous names and sparkling facts.’ – Daily...
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