In conversation with Adrian Wooldridge, Boomberg Opinion
Where: One Tree Books, Lavant St, Petersfield
When: 7pm 26th september 2023
Tickets: information here
This event marks the 200th Anniversary of the Demerara Uprising. At the time it was the largest rebellion of enslaved people in the British Empire.
Where: Marlborough House Pall Mall London SW1Y 5HX
18:00 ARRIVAL OF GUESTS
18:30 - 18:40 Welcome: H.E Dr Raj Singh, Guyana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
18:40 - 19:45 Panel: Charlie Gladstone, Thomas Harding, Dr. Alissa Trotz & Ulele Burnham
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Where: JW3, 341 Finchley Rd, London NW3 6ET
When: Tue 19 September 2023 at 7:30pm
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2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Demerara Uprising.
You may have heard White Debt by Thomas Harding being dramatised on Radio 4 - now is your chance to meet Thomas along with wonderful writer and speaker Sathnam Sanghera and Chief Executive of TrustLab, Yasmeen Akhtar, who will be moderating.
Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction.
Alissa is a Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. For the last 15 years, she has edited a weekly newspaper column, In the Diaspora, in the Guyanese newspaper The Stabroek News.
Moderated by Yasmeen Akhtar, Chief Executive of TrustLab and actively involved in the diversity, inclusion and reparations space
2 Authors. 2 New Books. One Evening.
Two authors will interview each other about their respective new books of nonfiction.
Thomas Harding: THE MAVERICK: GEORGE WEIDENFELD AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF PUBLISHING
MT Connolly: THE MEASURE OF OUR AGE: NAVIGATING CARE, SAFETY, MONEY AND MEANING LATER IN LIFE
When: 6.30pm - 8pm, 18 September 2023
Where: Archaeology Lecture Theatre, University College London (UCL). Enter from the Anthropology Department, 14 Taviton Street, WCIH OBW
Books": For sale at the event provided by the London Review of Books bookshop
Cost: Free of charge
RSVP r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk
Both books were released in the UK in August 2023.
Both books were published by Hachette.
Both books are works of non-fiction.
And that's about where the similarities end. It should be fun!
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A warm welcome to our website, and we cannot wait to welcome you back in person as you come to our beautiful medieval village for the 2022 Festival which runs from Friday November 18 to Sunday November 20.
How wonderful, after these difficult years, to engage again in person with authors, and we already have an exciting range of authors booked. Making a welcome return to speak in the Village Hall is our 2021 Festival Dinner Speaker Alan Johnson. Alan has turned from major politician, and memoir-writer to writing crime fiction. On Saturday we have our much-loved historian Tracy Borman and best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (in conversation with her husband Paul Venables whose voice will be familiar as Jakob in The Archers). Beloved poet Wendy Cope will be reading and discussing her work. Thomas Harding, author of The House by the Lake will be speaking about his latest book White Debt the story of the Demerara Uprising by the enslaved people of the British Colony. Andrew Lownie will also be joining us on Sunday 20 November as will the Natural History writer Patrick Barkham. Simon Edge author of Anyone for Edmund? will speak at the Guildhall on Friday evening. Further speakers will be announced shortly.
https://www.lavenhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/
with Thomas Harding and Professor Matthew Smith
What is the legacy of slavery today? Is it enough to acknowledge the crimes of the past, or do we have a responsibility to learn from our history and, going forward, do something about it?
With panellists Thomas Harding, author of “White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s LEGACY OF SLAVERY” and Professor Matthew Smith, director of the Centre for the Studies of the Legacies of British Slavery. Moderated by Yasmeen Akhtar, Chief Executive of TrustLab and actively involved in the diversity, inclusion and reparations space.
This event is in partnership with Circle Squared.
This discussion will take place in the building and online. Please choose either option at checkout. A Zoom link to join will be included in the confirmation email upon booking.
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Alex Renton & Thomas Harding | Britain’s Legacy of Slavery
Sat 23 Apr 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Alex Renton & Thomas Harding
Does Britain have an amnesia problem when it comes to our role in the transatlantic slave trade? How do we reckon with this violent history, alongside the legacies of slavery which persist into the present? Join Alex Renton (Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery) and Thomas Harding (White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery) as they grapple with these issues in conversation with Colin Grant, the author and director of WritersMosaic, historian, and expert on the Windrush Generation.
Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage at The Old Divinity School
Duration: 1hr
In conversation with the author about his new book White Debt.
Thomas Harding is a best-selling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction; The House by the Lake, which was short-listed for the Costa Biography Award.
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery is an examination of the historic revolt of the enslaved workers of 19th century sugar plantation in what is now Guyana, Harding's family's complicity and the ongoing repercussions around this country's involvement in slavery.
'A deep dive into colonialism and enslavement, with personal legacies that continue to resonate today - a deeply affecting and forensically elegant book for our times'
Phillippe Sands
Doors open at 6 pm for 6:30 start.
Refreshments served.
Tickets £3 and can be purchased at Waterstones Winchester High Street or reserved by emailing:
winchester@waterstones.com
Wednesday 23rd March 2022
18:00 at Waterstones, Winchester - High Street
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Thomas Harding in conversation with Adrian Wooldridge about
"White Debt – The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery"
at 6:30pm on Tuesday 8th March at One Tree Books, Petersfield
When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother’s family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain’s role in slavery. Captivating, moving and meditative, White Debt combines a searing personal quest with a deep investigation of a shared history that is little discussed amongst White people. It offers a powerful rebuttal of the national amnesia that masks the role of the British in this devastating period, and asks vital questions about the legacy we have been left with – cultural, political and moral – and whether future generations of those who benefited from slavery need to acknowledge and take responsibility for the White Debt.
The myth often taught in schools is that Britain’s role in slavery was as the abolisher, but the reality is much more sinister. Why are people still reluctant to engage in any meaningful way with the British legacy of slavery? When the award-winning author Thomas Harding discovered that his mother’s family had made money from the slave plantations worked by people of African descent, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain’s role in slavery. Is the national amnesia that masks the role of the British in this devastating period finally lifting? Join us for a provocative Thinkin where we’ll explore how future generations of those who benefitted from slavery need to acknowledge and take responsibility for the white debt
Professor Robert Beckford
Academic and theologian. Professor of Climate and Social Justice, University of Winchester
Thomas Harding
Award winning author and journalist. Author of White Debt
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Thomas Harding will be in conversation with co-Founder of Guyana SPEAKS, Juanita Cox about his soon to be published book, White Debt.
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Thomas will be speaking about his book LEGACY at the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town.
More information here:
When: 1.45pm 15 March 2020
Where: Gardens Community Centre, Hatfield St, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
https://jewishliteraryfestival.co.za/
http://jewishliteraryfestival.co.za/2020-festival/programme/
Thomas will be speaking about his book THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and HANNS AND RUDOLF at Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre
More information here:
http://ctholocaust.co.za/event/public-lecture-the-house-by-the-lake-by-thomas-harding/
Thomas is giving a lecture on LEGACY at Rabbi Cyril Harris Community Centre in conversation with Terry Shakinovsky
When: 7.30pm
Where: 75 4th St, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
Thomas will be speaking with Matthew Stadlen about LEGACY.
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea, and the Company who took on the World charts the rise and fall of one of the most influential dynasties in British History.
Where: Hall One, Kings Place, London
When: 6.30pm, 8 March 2020
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/legacy/
Lunchtime Lecture: J. Lyons, National Portrait Gallery and a Cup of Tea with Thomas Harding
5 December 2019, 13:15
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Tickets: £4 (£3 concessions and Gallery Supporters)
Immerse yourself in history, art and culture at our popular Lunchtime Lectures. Doors open at 12.45. Lectures begin at 13.15 and last approximately one hour.
Writer Thomas Harding gives a panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of his own extraordinary ancestors and one round-breaking company: Lyons & Co. He will reference portraits in the Gallery's Collection, including those of his grandfather, Sam Salmon, chairman of Lyon’s & Co. from 1965 to 1968, great-grandfather Isidore Salmon, chairman 1929-1941, and the artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein, 1895-1978), niece of the company's founders.
For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. By bringing the world to the British people, the company transformed the way we eat, drink and are entertained – democratising luxury and globalising our tastes. But it was a victory that was not easily won – a story of the virtue of hard work, perseverance and an indomitable spirit in the face of repeated obstacles: poverty, hatred and injustice. It is a tale that is rarely told, of an immigrant family’s journey from rags to riches: the story of poverty, hatred and anti-Semitism.
Thomas Harding is a journalist who has written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times and the Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz; the acclaimed Kadian Journal; A Father’s Story; The House by the Lake, a Costa Biography Award and Orwell Prize nominee; and Blood on the Page, winner of the 2018 Gold Dagger Award.
Following his lecture, Thomas will be signing copies of Legacy in the Gallery’s Bookshop, Floor 0.
More information here: https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/december/lunchtime-lecture-05122019
Thomas will be speaking about LEGACY at the Isle of Wight festival. More details on times etc soon
More information here
Where: St Nicholas Undercroft, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks, TN13 1JA
When: Sat 28th September 2019
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Thomas Harding will be in conversation with Adrian Wooldridge (of the Economist), discussing his latest publication ‘Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took on the World’ – the story of Lehmann Gluckstein and his family who, having escaped Eastern Europe, worked tirelessly to establish the largest catering company in the world – J. Lyons
Details here
Bestselling author and acclaimed journalist, Thomas Harding, discusses his latest book, Blood on the Page, a shocking and revelatory investigation into the 2006 murder of Allan Chappelow on Downshire Hill in Hampstead, described as 'the greatest whodunit of recent years'.
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Thomas will speak at the Marlborough Literary Festival on 30 September 2018 on his new book BLOOD ON THE PAGE.
The time has not yet been announced.
For more information see the website
Thomas will be speaking about his new book BLOOD ON THE PAGE at the Curious Arts Festival
When: 4.30pm on Saturday 21st July
Where: Drift Tent, Pylewell Park, East End, Lymington SO41 5SJ.
More details soon
Tuesday 29 May 2018, 1pm Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage
A ground-breaking examination of a terrifying murder and its aftermath by the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake. The trial of the Chinese dissident accused of murdering Allan Chappelow was the first in modern British history to be held ‘in camera’ – closed, carefully controlled, secret. Wang Yam was found guilty but has always protested his innocence. “Meticulous and gripping – a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home” –Philippe Sands.
Price: £8.00
For more information and tickets go to Hay Festival website
Thomas will be in conversation about BLOOD ON THE PAGE with acclaimed author Philippe Sands during the Daunt Books Festival.
Where: 84 Marylebone High St, Marylebone, London W1U 4QW
When: 15 March 2018
More information here
Thomas will talk about his new book BLOOD ON THE PAGE in conversation with star crime reporter Duncan Campbell.
When: Thursday 15th February at 6:30pm
Where: Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, London NW3 2QB.
Tickets: £5.00, order here, please collect your tickets at the venue.
More information from Daunt Books
Thomas will be talking about his new book BLOOD ON THE PAGE at Waterstones, London - Hampstead
When: Tuesday 13th March 18:30 - 20:00
Where: 68-69 Hampstead High St, London NW3 1QP
Tickets: £5
More info here
