Previous events
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JAN 21
From Privy Council to Belmarsh: An Evening with Denis MacShane and Jonathan Aitken
Join former MPs and Senior Ministers Jonathan Aitken and Denis MacShane in conversation about political lives and prison reform following the publication of the latter’s Prison Diaries. Aitken served twenty-four years in the Commons as a conservative MP and MacShane nineteen years as a labour MP, with both also spending time in Belmarsh Prison. Join...
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DEC 01
Robin Renwick asks: is the world ready for Hillary?
Will Hillary Clinton make history and become the first female President of the United States? Robin Renwick provides an invaluable insight into one of the most divisive figures in recent US political history. Robin Renwick, Lord Renwick of Clifton, is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. He was the British ambassador in Washington when the Clintons...
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NOV 27
Vicky Pryce at Salon North: Wealth
London’s highly innovative monthly showcase comes to Harrogate, proudly presenting Salon North: Wealth, a part of the event’s first ever series Health, Wealth and Happiness. With the evening consisting of three 30 minute talks by three different speakers, Vicky Pryce will stand to provide a firm economic definition of wealth and convince us of its importance...
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NOV 07
Chance Encounters Book Signing
"After a quarter of a century as a Lib-Dem power broker, Tim Razzall knows where the bodies are buried" Nick Robinson Tim Razzall’s has been an extraordinary career as a lawyer, cricketer, businessman and politician. Chance Encounters is not so much a traditional autobiography, more an insight into the personalities who have crossed his path in life...
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NOV 06
An Evening With James Wharton
Outhouse East are pleased to announce that on the evening of the 6th November we will be joined by James Wharton to give a talk on his experiences as a Gay author and soldier. James Wharton, Author and LGBT Campaigner: In 2013 James Wharton published his debut book Out In The Army that detailed his ten years’ service to the British Army as one of the...
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OCT 23
The Eye of the Storm Book Signing
Rob Wilson MP for Reading East recently published his second book The Eye of the Storm: The View from the Centre of the Political Scandal. It has received excellent reviews. Join us on Thursday 23rd October to hear Rob speak about what it’s really like for leading politicians to be at the heart of a relentless media onslaught. Rob will be speaking...
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OCT 12
Charles Clarke and Margaret Hodge at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
Charles Clarke, author of Too Difficult Box, and Margaret Hodge will be at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Some problems facing our society continue to defy the efforts of successive governments. It’s no secret that many difficult long-term issues are simply set aside and disappear from the short-term political agenda. Two of the UK’s most experienced...
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OCT 08
Peter Day at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
Peter Day, author of Franco’s Friends, will be at the Cheltenham Literature Festival to discuss Spanish Civil War: Divided Britain. Recent reports of British nationals leaving these shores for a foreign civil conflict carry echoes of the past. Richard Baxell (Unlikely Warriors), Peter Day (Franco’s Friends) and Mary S Lovell (The Mitford Girls) discuss...
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OCT 04
Mike Read at the Henley Literary Festival
Mike Read broadcasting legend and author of Seize the Day, will be at the Henley Literary Festival. Almost 40 years after beginning his broadcasting career at Reading’s 210, things have come full circle for Mike who now hosts the afternoon show on BBC Berkshire and is a familiar face around Henley. In Seize the Day he writes with candour and humour...
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OCT 04
Gyles Brandreth at the Ilkley Literature Festival
Gyles Brandreth will be at the Ilkley Literature Festival to talk about his book Breaking the Code. They say all political careers end in tears – in Gyles Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the author and broadcaster, One Show reporter, Just A Minute regular, former MP and government whip, opens up his Westminster diary to take us on a no-holds...
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