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Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with a powerful conversation on Queer South Asian stories with Churnjeet Mahn, co-author of ‘Desi Queers’. 

Join Rachel Charlton-Dailey for the launch of her new book ‘Ramping Up Rights’. Rachel will talk about how,  often, disabled people and their allies have fought, and won. She gives them the energy to keep fighting back.

Head to Queer Lit for an empowering evening with award-winning journalist, activist, and disability rights advocate Rachel Charlton-Dailey to explore what it truly means to fight for accessibility, representation, and justice.

Hear from the authors of the landmark book  ’Desi Queers’  Churnjeet Mahn and DJ Ritu as they speak to creativity and activism, queer South Asian life in 1980s London and their book.

Join the launch of ‘Desi Queers: LGBTQ+ South Asian and Cultural Belonging in Britain’ at the Bishopsgate Institute.

Celebrate Disability Pride Month and the launch of ‘Ramping Up Rights’ by Rachel Charlton-Dailey.

Celebrate GMCDP’s 40th Anniversary at Friends’ Meeting House with the launch of Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s book Ramping Up Rights. 

Join us Rachel Charlton-Dailey for the official book launch of Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism – a powerful new work tracing over 100 years of radical disabled activism in Britain.

Join psychotherapist and podcaster Mark Vernon, author of ‘Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination’ and religion researcher Esmé Partridge, for an exclusive masterclass on the meaning and mythos of Blake.

Rosie Whitehouse provides a poignant account of two young women – one of them her own mother-in-law – and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France. Join her at the Chelsea History Festival as she talks about her latest book, ‘Two Sisters’.

Join Martin Plaut for the launch of his new book, Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement.