Topic: Culture, history & language
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30 August, 2024
Daniel Hewitt
Daniel is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and documentary maker. As ITV News Investigations Editor, he is a regular face on ITV national news programmes as well as Good Morning Britain and the Tonight programme. His work on housing has received a string of accolades and led to changes in the law. He was host of […]
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1 August, 2024
Dame Helen Ghosh
Helen was appointed Director-General of the National Trust in November 2012. Helen joined the civil service from Oxford University, where she read Modern History. She has worked in a number of government departments, starting off in the Department of the Environment, and returning to environmental issues when she became Permanent Secretary at Defra in 2005. […]
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31 May, 2023John Orna Ornstein
John Orna-Orstein, Director of Curation and Experience, National Trust John Orna-Ornstein is Director of Curation and Experience at the National Trust, with responsibility for leading the organisation’s care for, and programming of, its historic places.
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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 […]
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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, […]
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18 August, 2020Lord 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]