Writer and academic Carla Kaplan and cartoonist, illustrator and writer Mimi Pond discuss the enduring fascination of the Mitfords including that of one of the lesser-known sisters, Jessica, who was the most radical and least understood of the family.
Carla Kaplan, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, and Mimi Pond will be in conversation at Asthall Manor, the Mitfords’ family home from 1919-1926.
In collaboration with The Biographers’ Club, we are delighted to welcome Carla Kaplan here at Hatchards this evening to discuss their new book, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford.
Join Carla Kaplan for a discussion about her latest book, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford.
Join Kenan Malik, in conversation with journalist Yvonne Singh for a discussion about today’s pertinent issues around culture and privilege, race, inequality and class – and how the legacies and struggles of the past have shaped Britain’s present.
Join Sandra Hempel for a discussion about her latest book, Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Police Force.
Together, Judge Theodor Meron and Christiane Amanpour will explore survival and memory, law and power, the making of modern international justice, and the urgent challenges facing global accountability today.
In this conversation at the Frontline Club, Allaf will consider how revolution, regional power plays, and Western miscalculation shaped Syria’s fate – and what its fragile future reveals about global politics today.
Join Diana Darke for a discussion about her latest book, Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments.
Raphael Cormack discusses his latest work Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age. Historian and classicist Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present in her latest work Talking Classics.
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