Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020Dr Jon Day
Jon Day is a writer, literary critic, and academic. He is the author of books including Cyclogeography (2015), a philosophical memoir about his time as a London bicycle courier, and Homing (2019), about pigeon racing and the idea of home. Jon teaches English and creative writing at King’s College London. He also works as a […]
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Hilton Dawson
Hilton Dawson is a Registered Social Worker, renegade former Labour M.P. first General Secretary of the Social Workers Union, a founder of the North East Party and someone who has pursued change for the past 40 years at individual, community, regional, national and global level. A constant thread has been empowering young people – with […]
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Sir Martin Davidson
Sir Martin Davidson is Chairman of the Great Britain China Centre, a government sponsored body focussing on legal, political and leadership exchanges with China and Vice Chairman of Leonard Cheshire Disability, the UK’s leading disability charity. He was Chief Executive of the British Council until December 2014 and has spent much of his career in […]
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Tim Davie CBE
Tim Davie – CEO, BBC Worldwide and Director, Global In October 2012, Tim Davie was announced as the incoming Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide and Director of Global, and took up his post in April 2013. He was made Acting BBC Director-General on 10 November 2012. Prior to this Tim was Director of BBC Audio […]
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Sophie Darlington
Sophie Darlington is an BAFTA winning UK based natural history filmmaker and Director of Photography who has been making wildlife feature films and television for more than 25 years. She has an outstanding reputation as a highly experienced self-shooting cinematographer specialising in long lens camerawork, beautiful composition, high speed and animal behaviour. Sophie has worked […]
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Ella d’Amato
Ella grew up in Weymouth with six siblings. Sheer numbers meant Ella left school at 15 to work, and never looked back. She’s worked in several different sectors, from retail, to hospitality, to law, to chiropractics. By 23, she’d found a job in marketing and quickly progressed up the ranks at Omnicom in London. She […]
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Professor Stuart Croft
Stuart became the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick in February 2016, moving from his previous role as the University’s Provost and prior to this as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Arts and Social Sciences). Stuart has been part of Warwick’s community since 2007, when he joined the Politics and International Studies department as […]
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Keith Craig
Keith was born in Scotland and graduated from Oxford University. He served with the British Army before working as a war correspondent in Africa with The Times. He then joined the Swire Group as a commercial manager in Hong Kong and Manila. In the early 1990s he served with the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office […]
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Major General J M Cowan CBE DSO
James Cowan was a soldier for 30 years, serving in Germany, Northern Ireland, Africa, Hong Kong, Iraq and Afghanistan. He commanded his Regiment, The Black Watch, in Iraq in 2004 during fighting in Basrah and subsequently around Fallujah. He was back in Iraq in 2006-07, again in Basra. He led Task Force Helmand as a […]
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Ben Cowell OBE
I run the Historic Houses Association, which represents over 1,600 important country houses in independent ownership. These houses come in different shapes and sizes, but share the same basic characteristics in that they remain lived-in family homes. Keeping these houses in good repair is expensive, and our members work hard to raise the funds needed. […]