Race, Resistance and Empire - Author Panel, at Heffers Bookshop

Race, Resistance and Empire are three topics that continue to permeate throughout our society. Join us on the 4th of October as we host three fantastic authors for an in conversation as they discuss these themes in further detail.

Lucy Fulford is a journalist and historian writing about migration and identity, often through the lens of conflict and trauma. She studied History at the University of Bristol, writes for publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, CNN and The New Humanitarian, and has worked with NGOs including Save the Children. Her debut book, The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus (Coronet, 2023) explored the ramifications of this landmark, unexplored forced migration on the generations which followed.
Preeti Dhillon is a researcher, writer and historian. She is passionate about capturing hidden stories from oppressed and marginalised communities. Her debut book The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom was published by Dialogue Books. It was Eastern Eye’s non-fiction book of the year. Preeti’s essay ‘How I Grew A Life’ was published in Fox & Windmill’s anthology Tales From the Kitchen, and she has written for NGOs, Black History Month magazine, and The Rights Collective, and was longlisted for Penguin WriteNow in 2020. She was an Independent Research Fellow with the Women’s History Network 2021-2022.
Sheela Banerjee is a writer, journalist and academic and her work has been published in The Guardian, Observer, Metro and Grazia. Her debut book, What’s In A Name? was published by Sceptre/Hodder. She directed TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4 for many years, which told powerful stories of individual lives. She later followed a passion for literature and left TV to do a PhD on ghosts in modernist literature. She grew up mainly in Hayes, west London, and in India, and her work often focuses on questions of culture and belonging in the UK’s diaspora communities.

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