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title: "Shirley Dent"
date: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://rationalists.org.uk/contributors/shirley-dent/"
post_id: 3297
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# Shirley Dent

Shirley Dent was formerly deputy editor of New Humanist and is now Communications Director for the Institute of Ideas, the [Battle of Ideas](http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/) and development editor of [Culture Wars](http://www.culturewars.org.uk/), the reviews website of the Institute of Ideas, and co&#150;author of [Radical Blake: Afterlife and Influence](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0333986458/newhumanist-21).