Thomas Harding - 29 Aug

Thomas Harding is an author and journalist who has written for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning documentary maker. He also ran a local newspaper in West Virginia, winning the West Virginia Association of Justices Journalist of the Year Award, before moving back to England in 2011, where he now lives with his family. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize; the internationally acclaimed Kadian Journal: A Fathers Story; The House by the Lake, a Costa Biography Award and Orwell Prize nominee; and Blood on the Page, winner of the 2018 Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.

Also by Thomas Harding

Hanns and Rudolf

Kadian Journal

The House by the Lake

Blood on the Page

For Sam

Slave quarters Virginia farm, nineteenth century

(from Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, E.R. Billings, 1875)

Lehman Glckstein 1850s

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Ann and Samuel Glckstein

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Lena and Barnett Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Monte Gluckstein

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

S&G shop London nineteenth century

(Alamy)

Salmon & Gluckstein cigar workshop 1890s

(Alamy)

Izzy Gluckstein

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Salmon & Gluckstein Dont Smoke advert 1884

(British Library)

Tilly Gluckstein

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Joseph Lyons

(London Metropolitan Archives, City of London)

Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper 1888

(Mary Evans)

Jews blamed for Jack the Ripper, The Illustrated Police News, 20 October, 1888

(Rex Features)

Olympia exhibition hall

(Getty)

The J. Lyons team at Olympia 1890s: Monte second from left back row, Isidore centre front, Alfred to his left, Izzy to his right

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Alfred Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Lyons teashop 213 Piccadilly 1890s

(Bridgeman)

Lyons teashop waitress 1890s

(Alamy)

Trocadero exterior 1890s

(London Metropolitan Archives, City of London)

Trocadero interior 1890s

(Mary Evans)

Isidore and Kitty wedding 1899

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Salmon & Gluckstein cigarette cards 1890s

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Mimi and Dore 1890s

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Lyons Corner House on Coventry Street

(Getty)

Strand Palace Hotel

(Mary Evans)

Lily Montagu

(National Library Israel)

Anti-German riots 13 May 1915, Daily Sketch

(Solo/DMG)

Plane lands at Bedales school, 1915

(Bedales school)

Women packing coffee, Lyons, First World War

(Topfoto)

Women packing tea at Lyons factory during First World War

(Historic England)

Isidore Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Monte Glucksteins funeral 12 October 1922 Daily Graphic

(Solo/DMG)

Isidore Salmon gives tour of Greenford factory to King George and Queen Mary 1923

(London Metropolitan Archives, City of London)

Tea tasters, Lyons factory Greenford

(Getty)

Making ice-cream bricks, J. Lyons, 1920s

(Topfoto)

Lyons workers load ice-cream, Cadby Hall, 1920s

(Topfoto)

Hong Kong pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, 1924

(Getty)

Harry Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Lujeri tea estate

(National Archive)

General strike, Cadby Hall, 1926

(London Metropolitan Archives, City of London)

Nippies at work, Lyons teashop

(Getty)

Nippies pose on roof of Cadby Hall

(Getty)

Gluck at Fine Arts Society 1932

(Topfoto)

Isidore and others knighted, 1932

(Bystander Magazine)

Boycott German goods flyer

(Board of Deputies of British Jews/London Metropolitan Archives, City of London)

Mimi Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Viscount Rothermere and Isidore Salmon at the opening for the Cumberland Hotel 1933

(Mirror)

Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Daily Mail, 22 January 1934

(Alamy)

Oswald Mosley at Olympia, 7 June 1934

(Getty)

Sam Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Nesta and Gluck in Medallion

(Fine Art Society/Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Sam and Wendy on their wedding day

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Kitty and Isidore at Chancellors banquet 1938

(Life Magazine/Getty)

Isidore and Kittys street hit during Blitz

(Westminster City Archives)

Nippies prepare teashop before air raid

(Topfoto)

Woman making munitions at filling factory

(Getty)

Margaret Hilda (later Thatcher) at work J. Lyons

(Getty)

Neil Salmon

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Coronation display at Lyons teashop, 213 Piccadilly, 1953

(Getty)

Sam Salmon giving tour of LEO computer, 1965

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Cyril Salmon by Gluck

(Toby Treves)

Belinda and Frank on their wedding day, 1960

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Sam Salmons eightieth birthday party with Wendy and grandchildren Thomas Harding and Amanda Harding

(Salmon and Gluckstein family)

Helena and Lehmann Glcksteins graves in Hackney with new sign

(Thomas Harding)

Some day, the history of the Family ought to be written. When it is written, the author must be allowed to write about us as he or she pleases, without being inhibited by the sort of constraint that I for one (and I am sure others also) would want to impose if it were written now. This means that the history will not be written for many years.

Geoffrey Salmon, 1974

On a clear but cold autumn morning in late September 1906, two very unusual trains were preparing to leave Londons Euston station. The concourse was flooded with smoke, the sounds of men barking orders and guards blowing whistles. One train was steadily filling with almost a thousand waiters, cooks, superintendents and kitchen assistants, all smartly dressed and chatting excitedly. The other was being loaded with provisions: 25,000 plates, 64,000 knives, forks and spoons, 12,000 glasses, 4,000 serving dishes, and 1,000 flower ornament centrepieces, not to mention more than 60 tonnes of food and drink. A newspaper described this railway convoy as the most curiously laden goods trains that has ever left Euston.