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Christina Longden

Christina Longden

Our Lives, Our Stories with Carl Chinn vor 4 Monaten

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Carl Chinn is joined by author, community builder and his former
student Christina Longden, who grew up in the mill town of
Dukinfield, near Stalybridge, and was among the first in her
family to go to university. Since then, she has spent her life
uncovering the stories that others left behind.

They talk about her growing up working class in the north of
England; the class and accent prejudice she encountered at
university; and the astonishing family discovery that her
great-great-great-grandfather Robert Stanley, a Victorian grocer,
magistrate and mayor of Stalybridge, converted to Islam at the
age of 69 and was then quietly erased from the family memory for
a hundred years.

This is a conversation about identity, belonging, and what
happens when ordinary people dare to think for themselves.
Christina's books, her work through the Lorna Young Foundation
and her community interest company Pastruisms all carry the same
belief: that every life has a story worth telling, and that those
stories can bring people together across every kind of
difference.

Links:

"His Own Man" by Christina Longden —
https://www.amazon.co.uk/His-Own-Man-Victorian-Reschid/dp/0992879248

"Imagining Robert" by Christina Longden —
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imagining-Robert-Reschid-Stanley-1828-1911/dp/0992879256

Past Truisms CIC — https://www.facebook.com/pasttruisms

Lorna Young Foundation — https://www.lyf.org.uk/

Dark Woods Coffee - https://darkwoodscoffee.co.uk/

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