Topic: Culture, history & language
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13 August, 2021Reemah Sakaan
Reemah Sakaan leads BritBox in the UK, driving international growth and overseeing the launch of BritBox Australia. BritBox is ITV and BBC backed streaming service. Having worked on growing the partnership between ITV and BBC, Reemah was responsible for the creation of the BritBox brand and global concept. Prior to the launch of BritBox in the UK in November of 2019, Reemah spent 18 months living in New York where she was growing BritBox US’s subscribers (which passed 1 million in March 2020) alongside launching BritBox Canada in February 2018. Before this Reemah worked as ITV’s director of marketing and […]
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23 September, 2020
Mark Russell
Mark is Chief Executive of The Children’s Society and leads a team of 850 staff and 10,000 volunteers working to support some of the most vulnerable children in the country. He is committed to disrupting the disadvantage that many of our children and young people face today and has a passion and determination to protect, support and speak up for children and young people. Mark is from County Armagh in Northern Ireland and read Law at Queen’s University in Belfast. After a few years in the private sector, Mark moved into youth work – working in one of the most […]
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18 August, 2020
Lord Clive Soley
Clive Soley is a Parliamentarian with 40 years’ experience – 26 as an MP and 14 as a Member of the House of Lords. Elected Labour MP for Hammersmith North 1979-1983; for Hammersmith 1983-1997; and for Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush 1997-2005. Member of the House of Lords from July 2005 and still an active member; in June 2019 he was elected Vice Chair, Scottish Peers Association. As chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) during the first Blair government he was one of the four officers of the PLP and as such chaired the weekly meetings with the Prime […]
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Angus Robertson
Angus Robertson has nearly 30 years experience as a senior politician, campaign manager and former diplomatic affairs correspondent. He served as the Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), was a member of the UK parliament from 2001-17 and was Westminster SNP Group Leader from 2007-17. Angus Robertson was based in Vienna during the 1990s, where he reported for the BBC and worked for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. He attended Broughton High School in Edinburgh and graduated from Aberdeen University with a joint honours degree in Politics and International Relations. He now runs the polling and research organisation ‘Progress […]
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13 March, 2020Evelyn Welch
Professor Welch graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Renaissance History and Literature (Magna cum Laude), and received her PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. She has taught at the Universities of Essex, Birkbeck, Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London, where she served as Dean of Arts and Vice-Principal for Research and International Affairs before taking on the role of Vice-Principal for Arts & Sciences at King’s College London. Professor Welch has led a range of major research programmes including The Material Renaissance, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Getty […]
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6 March, 2020
Professor Dawn Ades CBE FBA
Taught History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex from 1968-2008. Since retirement continues to organise exhibitions and write about art. Specialises in 20th century art, Dada and Surrealism, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art, history of photography, with a particular interest in the work of women artists. Curator of a number of major international exhibitions including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); Art in Latin America: the Modern Era 1820-1980 (1989); Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1933-1945 (1995); Salvador Dali: the Retrospective (2004); Undercover Surrealism (2004); The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art (2013).
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4 March, 2020Sharon Ament
“Sharon Ament is Director of the Museum of London, which in 2015 announced its ambition to build a new museum for London and move to a new site in West Smithfield. Since joining the Museum in 2012, Sharon has been steering the next phase of the organisation’s development to more fulsomely reflect the energy and dynamism of London itself. In recent years, the Museum of London has achieved a record 1 million+ visitors, helped along by extremely successful exhibitions including; Fire! Fire!, The Cheapside Hoard, The Crime Museum Uncovered, and Tunnel: the Archaeology of Crossrail, engaged more school children than […]
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Professor Richard Alston
I teach and research in Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London. My research covers the Classical period from about 200 BCE to 750 CE and the influence of the Classical on modern culture, particularly on politics and on cities. I have edited or authored thirteen books and fifty articles on subjects varying from the birth of the Roman Empire to housing in Roman Egypt and ideas of the Classical in twentieth-century cities. I am committed to education in schools and have published texts books on Roman history (Aspects of Roman History 30 BC – AD 117) and will […]
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3 March, 2020Peter Aitchison
I was brought up in the small Berwickshire town of Eyemouth and went to Eyemouth High School from 1976-82. At that time, it was, to say the least, unusual for anyone from my community to go to University. When I was in S2 an ex miner who had retrained to be a history teacher arrived at Eyemouth. He fired my imagination, pushed me to study and to do exams and virtually wrote my UCAS form. Though University is not for everyone, I made it to Edinburgh and then Aberdeen where I graduated with a degree in history. I had always […]
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26 February, 2020Adam Zamoyski
Adam Zamoyski is an independent historian and author of a dozen books on various aspects of European History. They include two Sunday Times best-sellers, The Polish Way and 1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow, and have been widely translated. He speaks several languages and his books adopt a many-sided approach to complex questions such as the birth of nationalism in Europe, the early history of terrorism and, in his ground-breaking study of the Congress of Vienna, Rites of Peace, diplomatic power-politics. His latest book, Napoleon. The Man behind the Myth, provides an entirely original insight into the phenomenon of the […]