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In Conversation: Preeti Dhillon, Sheela Banerjee and Lucy Fulford
House of Books & Friends is overjoyed to announce Preeti Dhillon, Sheela Banerjee and Lucy Fulford will be in conversation on Tuesday 1st October from 6pm – 7pm to discuss their works, The Shoulders We Stand On, What’s In A Name? and The Exiled.
There will be a discussion between the three authors, a chance for a Q&A, and an opportunity to get your books signed. We will also be selling copies of each of the authors works on the night.
Tickets
As there are multiple authors in discussion, you can purchase a ticket-only option, or you can purchase a copy of the book from us to act as a ticket; see options below:
£5 Ticket only and the option to buy ONE of the titles available here
£31 for all 3 books to act as your ticket here
About The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Have you heard of the Indian Workers’ Association? The Grunwick Strike? The Brixton Black Women’s Group? The Battle of Brick Lane? If the answer is no, you’re not alone. The Shoulders We Stand On tells the stories 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 impacted the way we live now.
Researcher and historian Preeti Dhillon wants us to reclaim the history that has been kept from us, and use these vital movements and inspirational moments to better understand the UK we live in today and how change happens.
About Whats in a Name? Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging – be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one’s parents.
In What’s in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee 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 – Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
About The Exiled: Empire, immigration and Ugandan Asian
After packing scant possessions and countless memories, 50,000 Ugandan Asians vied for limited space in countries including Canada, India and the United Kingdom. More than 28,000 expellees from Britain’s former colony arrived in the UK and began building new lives – but their incredible stories have, until now, remained largely hidden.
Fifty years on from the exodus, The Exiled draws on first-hand interviews and testimonies, including from the author’s family, to illuminate a time of painful alienation and incredible courage. As an entire people stepped into the unknown, a global diaspora was born, and the fate of the United Kingdom changed forever.