Click here to watch Melissa Benn’s interview, recorded in London last autumn, with biographer and campaigner Rachel Holmes about her new book Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel. The discussion was filmed as part of the 2020 winter Cambridge Literary Festival programme. Continue Reading
Melissa appears in the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast: YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD: a lifelong learning revolution. Continue Reading
Melissa will be a guest speaker at a special Friends of Ruskin College, Birthday Celebration Online event, on Monday February 22nd at 6.30pm. Details here. Continue Reading
Melissa will be interviewing Rachel Holmes about her biography of the formidable suffragette and lifelong socialist Sylvia Pankhurst at the Malvern Festival of Ideas on Saturday March 6th at 10-11am. Details here. Continue Reading
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
On November 24th at 7 pm at the Holborn Union, Melissa will be talking at the LSE’s Holborn Union about Politics, Education and the Media. The event will take place at Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE. Details to follow. Continue reading…
