Paddy Docherty

Paddy Docherty is a historian & artist, with a particular interest in the British Empire and the history of film. He was educated at Oxford University and is the author of The Khyber Pass: a History of Empire and Invasion (Faber & Faber, 2007) and Blood and Bronze: the British Empire & the Sack of Benin (Hurst, 2021).

Paddy is represented by Charles Walker at United Agents.

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Nov 29

Nov 29 Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: violence, empire and the nature of evil

Paul Docherty

In this paper I will introduce two of the most stimulating and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century: the political theorist and refugee from Nazi Germany, Hannah Arendt, and the psychiatrist and anticolonial militant, Frantz Fanon.

Jul 1

Jul 1 ‘Black Men and White Girls’: the Limehouse Riot Trial of 1919

Paul Docherty

On July 1st 1919, The Times reported on a trial at the Old Bailey that illustrates the racist violence afflicting the country in that febrile year.