Rachel Wang, Sir Peter Stothard and Bjorn Saven reappointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery
The Prime Minister has reappointed Rachel Wang and Sir Peter Stothard as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery for a term of four years from 3 April 2021, and Bjorn Saven for a term of three years from 3 April 2021.
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Rachel Wang
Rachel Wang is a Black British filmmaker and the co-founder of production company Chocolate Films. For Chocolate Films, Rachel produces video content for online and broadcast from bases in London, Glasgow and Berlin, with work spanning many sectors and styles. She works extensively in video production for arts, culture and heritage and works with galleries and museums across the UK, Europe and the Middle East to produce exhibition AV, documentaries and promotional content.
Rachel Wang
Rachel Wang is a Black British filmmaker and the co-founder of production company Chocolate Films. For Chocolate Films, Rachel produces video content for online and broadcast from bases in London, Glasgow and Berlin, with work spanning many sectors and styles. She works extensively in video production for arts, culture and heritage and works with galleries and museums across the UK, Europe and the Middle East to produce exhibition AV, documentaries and promotional content.
Rachel is passionate about producing factual content that highlights human stories and society today. She is the co-creator of 1000 Londoners, the online documentary portrait of London. Her latest long-form documentary ‘Her Life Matters’ is an insight into an international campaign to reduce maternal mortality. As an advocate for improving diversity in the media, Rachel spearheads a video production workshop programme through Chocolate Films.
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Peter Stothard’s
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar offers a deft blend of narrative history and intelligent historical fiction in following the fates of Julius Caesar’s killers.
Peter Stothard,
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 274 pp., $27.95.
HISTORY IS mainly a matter of unforeseen outcomes yielding unintended consequences. The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC offers a striking case in point. Hoping to bring back the (largely imaginary) good old days of the early Roman Republic, a privileged, patrician clique of Roman senators led by Gaius Cassius Longinus (Shakespeare’s “lean and hungry” Cassius) and Marcus Brutus (Shakespeare’s “noblest Roman of them all”) murdered a brilliant soldier-statesman in what they convinced themselves was a heroic act of tyrannicide. In fact, it offered a reminder that all rogues led to Rome. Although he carefully avoided involv