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What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant
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The talk What We Leave We Carry will occur on 10 November 2026 at Brixton Library in London. Colin Grant will lead a conversation with Anni Domingo and Isabelle Dupuy regarding stories of migration to Britain.

Join Colin in conversation with actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy discussing stories of migration

What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land?

Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in Reading, an Iranian taxi driver in Shropshire, a Sierra Leonean actor in Northampton, a Romanian police officer in Edinburgh.

Colin Grant has travelled the country and listened to their stories – foundational tales of arriving in a new land, along with rarely spoken stories of love and loss. Together, these accounts ask questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration in twenty-first-century Britain.

Candid, profoundly human, sometimes funny and always moving, What We Leave We Carry is a chance to listen to Britain – in all its richness and complexity.

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. His most recent book, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year.

Colin will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy.

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What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant takes place on Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 18:30.

What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant is held at Brixton Library in London (Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ).

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