Danny Dorling in Conversation with Polly Toynbee
Social scientist and inequality expert Danny Dorling discusses his latest work, Seven Children, an immersive and highly original study of child inequality, in a conversation at Foyles with Polly Toynbee.
In his questioning and inventive new book, Dorling constructs seven ‘perfect average’ children from millions of statistics, bringing to light the spectrum of social and economic inequality in modern day, post-pandemic Britain. Complicating a picture of a socially divided nation that often focuses only on the superrich and the most deprived, Seven Children is an essential study to understand the future of Britain’s next generation.
Danny Dorling is a social scientist and author whose books include Inequality and the 1%, All That Is Solid and Shattered Nation, among many others. He has written numerous op-eds and long reads for the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, and Telegraph. Dorling is Harold Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm.
Dorling will be in conversation with Polly Toynbee. Toynbee is a Guardian columnist. Her recent books include An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals and The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity, co-authored with David Walker.
This event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Doors will open from 6:45pm.
Tickets: £8 General Admission / £18 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Seven Children (RRP £14.99) Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road Please note that the Auditorium at Foyles is fully accessible from the Ground floor lifts.
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