Bella Thomas

Bella Thomas is an adviser to the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Axess TV. She has recently worked in documentaries and exhibitions.

Living with Castro

The boy in the plaza was anxious and insistent. He was trying to sell us cigars. He didn't show us the cigars in his possession; he merely described

By Bella Thomas

/ 18 Feb 2008

The Blackwall debates: the present in the past

The Blackwall debates is a short series of three public discussions in east London clustering around the theme of "history in the present". In doing so they share

By Bella Thomas

/ 31 Oct 2006

Paradox regained: a conversation with an old comandante in Cuba

The colonel had agreed to meet me in the foyer of the Hotel Nacional in Havana. Spotting him amongst the throng of European travellers traipsing through the art deco hallway

By Bella Thomas

/ 19 Aug 2003