Our right to protest is in jeopardy and it’s more important than ever to understand the history that lies behind our current era of activism. Join authors Preeti Dhillon and Sheela Banerjee to discuss the legacy of protest against colonialism and persecution of people of colour in the UK.  

Journalist, academic and ex-TV producer Sheela Banerjee’s fascinating first book WHAT’S IN A NAME unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents – from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia.

Researcher and historian Preeti Dhillon’s THE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON tells the story of ten remarkable movements, campaigns and organisations led by Black and Brown people across Britain from the sixties to the eighties that fought against racism and capitalism and their impact on the way we live now.

Preeti Dhillon is a researcher, author and historian, whose work tells stories hidden from the mainstream narrative. She works in the international development and humanitarian sector, and has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Oxford, and an MA in International Development and Public Policy. Preeti has written for Shout Out UK and The Rights Collective and was longlisted for Penguin WriteNow 2020.

Sheela Banerjee is a journalist and academic and worked for many years at the BBC and Channel 4, directing programmes which told powerful stories of individual lives. She has also worked as a radio reporter and BBC producer on current affairs and political programmes. She left TV to undertake a PhD on Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. What’s in a Name? is her first book.

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