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Alex Renton. Alexander James Torr Renton FRHistS is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of several historical and investigative books, including Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class (2017) and Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery (2021).
- Investigative journalism, history
- Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery (2021)
- UK/Canada
- Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry (father), Alice Fergusson (mother)
Jul 27, 2022 · A lex Renton decided to speak out about the abuse he suffered at one of Britain’s elite private schools after reading an article in 2013 that made him realise his abusers could still be teaching ...
Blood Legacy. reckoning with a family’s story of slavery. Alex Renton’s new book was published in May 2021 by Canongate Books. Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction - video. “A deeply moving, brave and thought-provoking book” Andrew Marr. His Sunday Times review here.
May 4, 2014 · For generations of boys, sexual abuse was part of the everyday cruelty of boarding school. In this painfully honest report, writer Alex Renton confronts the demons of his past at Ashdown House ...
Complicity in child abuse is the bleak secret at the heart of today’s British elite. Alex Renton is a writer and journalist whose career has ranged from arts and food writing to politics and the investigation of child abuse. His career as a war reporter and development worker took him to the Middle East, Africa, East Asia and the Balkans.
May 23, 2021 · James Graham (1789-1860), Alex Renton’s fourth great-grandfather, who owned two slaves. Photograph: courtesy of Canongate The Fergussons of Kilkerran, of whom Renton is a direct descendant, were ...
Journalist Alex Renton, who was taught by Mr Price, has spoken to six men who allege they were sexually assaulted by the teacher at Ashdown House in East Sussex in the 1970s. There are 42 ...
