A Sion College Seminar with Duncan Dormor: Contested Heritage: Making Repair?

Between 1712 and 1836, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), a voluntary society composed of leading members of the Church of the England, owned and managed the Codrington Estates in Barbados participating in the inhumane and brutal system of racialized plantation chattel slavery. During this period between 1,000 and 1,700 individuals lived within this brutal system and were subjected to inhumane treatment as enslaved persons. In 2024, USPG made a public apology for its past actions, and in partnership with the Codrington Trust, launched Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Project, committing to investing £7M into a range of programmes of reparatory justice over a 10-15 year period.

The Revd Canon Dr Duncan Dormor is the General Secretary of the United Society Partners in the Gospel, the mission agency which works across the Anglican Communion to rethink mission, energise church and champion justice through mission programmes. An Anglican priest, author, teacher, and international speaker, he previously served as Dean of Chapel and President of St John’s College, Cambridge and taught sociology in the Cambridge Divinity Faculty. Duncan holds degrees in Human Sciences, Theology and Demography and is a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s Mission and Theological Apologetics Group. He is a Canon Theologian of Portsmouth Cathedral.

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A Sion College Seminar Supper with The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris

This year we mark the 1700th anniversary of the momentous Council of Nicæa, a defining event in the history of the Church. This anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not only on the enduring significance of the Council, but also on the current state of ecumenism within the Church of England.

We are delighted that Canon Jeremy Morris will be our speaker. Jeremy is a distinguished church historian and priest. He was Dean of Trinity Hall and later of King's College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of Trinity Hall. He now serves as the Church of England’s National Adviser for Ecumenical Relations, leading national and international work with other Christian churches. A respected scholar of modern ecclesiastical history, he has contributed widely to the study of Anglicanism, ecumenism, and Christianity.

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A Sion College Seminar Supper with Valentine Low: Power and the Palace

In Power and the Palace, being published in September2025, Valentine Low examines how the relationship between the sovereign and the political leadership of the nation has evolved over the past 200 years, particularly during the reign of Elizabeth II and moving into that of Charles III.

Drawing on extensive engagement and access as a journalist covering relations between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, and on new research for this book, Valentine Low offers insights and revelations which transform our understanding of the relationship between the monarchy and the government as it continues to develop in a nation without a written constitution.

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Founder’s Day: The 2025 Sion College Lecture

Speaker: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a project manager at Thomson Reuters Foundation and has previously worked for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and WHO in Iran, and BBC Media Action. She is a British-Iranian dual national, who was held hostage in Iran between April 2016 and March 2022 as part of a long-running dispute between Britain and Iran. In September 2016 she was sentenced to five years on national security grounds. A second case was opened against her in October 2017 to prevent her eligibility for parole in the wake of a separate court hearing in London over a long running debt dispute between Iran and the UK, over the UK’s failure to deliver tanks to Iran in 1979.

Nazanin was temporarily released on 17 March 2020 during the Covid pandemic, but restricted by electronic tagging and monitoring. At the end of her first sentence in March 2021, she was given a second conviction, and another year’s imprisonment. Following negotiations between Iran and the UK, she was finally released on 16 March 2022, after a long campaign from her family and community, when Britain repaid its outstanding debt of £393.8 million to Iran, and she returned to the UK the next day.

Since her return, Nazanin has campaigned for women’s and prisoner rights in Iran and the UK and written about the meaning of freedom during and after incarceration. Nazanin’s personal experience and that of her family gives her a unique insight into international relations between Iran and the rest of the world.  Her experience tested the ties of family love, confronting five foreign secretaries and taking an ordinary family behind the curtain of international hostage diplomacy and secret deals

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A Sion College Seminar with Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. In Lower than the Angels he shows Christians trying to make sense of themselves and of humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes. Among his previous books are Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 and A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series. He was knighted in 2012 and was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2022.

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The Sion College Afternoon at the Panto: Potted Panto

Potted Panto brings you seven classic pantomimes in 80 hilarious minutes! Wilton’s Music Hall welcomes back the Olivier Award nominated festive celebration. In a madcap ride through the biggest stories and best-loved characters from the wonderful world of pantomime, our dastardly double act dash from rubbing Aladdin’s lamp to roaming the golden streets of Dick Whittington’s London and making sure that Cinderella gets to the Ball.

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