From the margins of history

Join Seggy Segaran to discover key global figures and achievements that have been air-brushed out from the history books. Seggy will be discussing his new book, ' Zheng He and the Galle Trilingual Inscription'.

A 15th-century admiral whose vast diplomatic voyages demonstrated China’s maritime power. A University which was a vast 5th-century centre of learning. A 7th-century mathematician who gave the first clear rules for using zero as a number.

Seggy Segaran is an engineer, author, and explorer of history’s overlooked crossroads. Born in Sri Lanka and having lived in York for the last 40+ years, he brings a distinctive cross cultural lens to the past, one shaped by the realisation that the stories we inherit often leave entire worlds unexplored. 

A Dringhouses Library Mostly Mondays talk.