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Dorchester Literary Festival
Events in 2025
Dorchester
Dorchester Literary Festival
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Dorchester

October 20, 2025

Dorset Museum, Dorchester

In conversation with Allan Mallinson, Barnaby Rogerson will be talking about his latest book - The House Divided

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Dorchester
Oxford Literary Festival
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Oxford Literary Festival
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March 31, 2025
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

Travel writer and historian Barnaby Rogerson looks back at the reasons for the 1,400-year divide between Sunni and Shia and how it has shaped and continues to shape the Middle East.

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Jaipur Literature Festival 2025
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2025
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January 31 and February 1, 2025

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Cheriton Talks
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Cheriton Talks
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February 22, 2025
St Michael’s Church, Cheriton in Hampshire

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The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival 2025
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The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival 2025
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April 12, 2025

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  • February 1-4 2024 – interview with Clare Clark

     

  • 29 February-3rd March 2024 – interviewed by the books editor, Rose Baring

  • Canterbury, Kent
    22 March, 2024
    Interviewed by Dr Martin Latham es here

  • Candover Valley, Hampshire - interviewed by Rebecca Fletcher, April 25, 2025

  • May 13, 2025
    Interviewed by Nick Laing, founder of Steppes Travel

  • 28 June-7 July 2024, interviewed by Professor Eugene Rogan of St Anthonys, Oxford

  • Imam Ali: from Concise History to Timeless Mystery, a conversation with Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi, 7 July

  • 9-11 August, 2024, interviewed by Charles Harper, British Ambassador to Jordan and Yemen

  • 3-6 October, interviewed by Lieutenant-General Sir Simon Mayall

  • 3-9th November, interviewed by Turkophile travel writer Jeremy Seal

The House Divided
Heirs of the Prophet

Past talks & interviews

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Bosphorus Review interviews Barnaby Rogerson
Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured
Bosphorus Review interviews Barnaby Rogerson
Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

We love stumbling across wisdom in all the different ages of humankind, and try to avoid falling into the trap that our contemporary culture is any significant way, wiser than that of our ancestors.

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured
Talks, Travellers & Writers
Bookblogger interviews Barnaby Rogerson
Talks, Travellers & Writers

We look for books that have been written with inner conviction and truth about the world. We want them to observant of others, capable of summing up a spirit of place and catching the moment on the wing.

Talks, Travellers & Writers
Bookblast interviews Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring, worker-directors of Eland Publishing
Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured
Bookblast interviews Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring, worker-directors of Eland Publishing
Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

We look for books that have been written with inner conviction and truth about the world. We want them to observant of others, capable of summing up a spirit of place and catching the moment on the wing.

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured
Talks, Exhibitions, Islam
“Lifting the Seven Veils - Writing about Islam” - talk given at the British Library during “Sacred” exhibition, 2007
Talks, Exhibitions, Islam

Those who cannot understand the recited verses of Arabic will always be in an outer circle, unable to approach anywhere near to the true understanding and power of the Koran.

Talks, Exhibitions, Islam

Recordings

Barnaby on the Slightly Foxed Podcast

Barnaby with Don McCullin at the Oldie Literary Lunch