WRITERS’ TALKS

VIRTUAL WRITER’S TALK – SIMON KUPER –‘CHUMS – HOW A TINY CASTE OF OXFORD TORIES  TOOK OVER THE UK’ –   Thursday 14 July

2021

VIRTUAL WRITER’S TALK – PROFESSOR PAUL WATT – ESTATE REGENERATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: PUBLIC HOUSING, PLACE AND INEQUALITY IN LONDON – Thursday 12 August
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VIRTUAL WRITER’S TALK – HESTER GRANT – THE GOOD SHARPS: THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO REMADE THEIR WORLD – Thursday 29 July
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WRITER’S TALK : JOHN GIMLETTE- THE GARDENS OF MARS – MADAGASCAR, AN ISLAND STORY – Thursday 17 June
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WRITER’S TALK – SONIA PRESSMAN FUENTES – MY LIFE AND TIMES – Thursday 15 April
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WRITER’S TALK – DAVID RUNDELL – “VISION OR MIRAGE: SAUDI ARABIA AT THE CROSSROADS” – Thursday 28 January
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David Rundell’s book is available here from Bloomsbury Books. For a discount on purchase please use the discount code VOM30.

WRITER’S TALK – JOHN KAMPNER – “WHY THE GERMANS DO IT BETTER”– 11 January
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2020

WRITER’S TALK – DAVID GOODHART – “HEAD, HAND, HEART”- 17 December
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WRITER’S TALK PROFESSOR RICHARD TOYE – CHURCHILL AND RUSSIA “CHURCHILL’S GREAT GAME: RETHINKING THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD – WAR” – 3 December
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WRITER’S TALK WITH PROFESSOR PAOLA SUBACCHI ON HER BOOK “THE COST OF FREE MONEY” – 16 November
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WRITER’S TALK WITH TOM HOLLAND – DOMINION: THE MAKING OF THE WESTERN MIND –  5 November 
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WRITER’S TALK WITH LOYD GROSSMAN – AN ELEPHANT IN ROME – BERNINI, THE POPE, AND THE MAKING OF THE ETERNAL CITY – 20 October
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WRITER’S TALK WITH PAUL VALLELY – PHILANTHROPY – FROM ARISTOTLE TO ZUCKERBERG – 8 October
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WRITER’S TALK – WITH LORD ADONIS –  ERNEST BEVIN: LABOUR’S CHURCHILL  – 17 September
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WRITER’S TALK – MARK SEAMAN- UNDERCOVER AGENTS IN THE WAR – 3 September
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WRITER’S TALK – RING OF SPIES: HOW MI5 AND THE FBI BROUGHT DOWN THE NAZIS IN AMERICA BY RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES – 27 August
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WRITER’S TALK – ALEX LARMAN – “THE CROWN IN CRISIS: COUNTDOWN TO ABDICATION” – 13 August
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WRITER’S TALK – PROFESSOR JOHN GOOCH – “Mussolini’s Wars – Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935 to 1943” –  20 July
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WRITER’S TALK – PROFESSOR ANTHONY SPAWFORTH – “The Story of Greece and Rome” – 29 June
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WRITER’S TALK – COUNT NIKOLAI TOLSTOY “Patrick O’Brian – A very Private Life” – Thursday 18 June
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