Speaking at the Second Annual New Culture Forum Literary Festival in London (2026), Martin Plaut and Lord Biggar discuss the true history of slavery, a global reality that dates back thousands of years.
Martin Plaut is a journalist and academic specialising in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London.
Martin is the author of “Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement”.
Nigel, Lord Biggar is an Anglican priest, theologian, ethicist, and life peer. From 2007 to 2022, he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford.
Nigel is the author of “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” and “Reparations: The Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt “