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Dr. Thomas Wide or Tommy Wide DPhil | |
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| Born | March 1984 (age 42) |
| Education | Oundle School
Harvard University |
| Occupations | British historian, author and entrepreneur |
| Agent | CAA |
| Website | www |
Thomas Nicholas Buchan Wide (born in March 1984) [1] is a British historian, author, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his work in cultural heritage preservation, global fintech, and immersive arts, as well as his forthcoming historical non-fiction work, The Trail: Uncovering the Psychedelic Silk Road. He lives in London.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Wide was born into a family with strong literary and legal roots. His father is Charles Thomas Wide, a barrister and King's Counsel (KC). On his maternal side, Wide is a great-grandson of the Scottish novelist and statesman John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, as well as a grandson of William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, while his mother is the noted author and garden historian, the Hon. Ursula Buchan.[3]
Thomas Wide read Classics and Arabic at Oxford, studied Chinese and Arabic at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar, and holds a doctorate from Oxford.[2]
Career
[edit]Wide's career spans the sectors of cultural preservation, financial technology, and media arts:
- Cultural Heritage and Arts: Wide served as the Managing Director of Turquoise Mountain, an international NGO founded by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) dedicated to reviving traditional crafts and historic global architecture, particularly in Afghanistan. He has also curated exhibitions on the Silk Road for institutions including the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).[4][2]
- Fintech and Entrepreneurship: He was a co-founding member of Taptap Send, a global financial technology company that enables low-cost, instant remittances for diaspora communities, which grew rapidly to process billions of dollars annually.
- Immersive Media: Wide is currently a key executive leading the international growth of Lightroom, a London-based immersive art and media space known for its high-profile collaborations with artists such as David Hockney.[5]
Literary Work
[edit]Wide's debut book, The Trail: Uncovering the Psychedelic Silk Road, examines the history of the "Hippie Trail" of the 1960s and 1970s. The book explores how the hundreds of thousands of young Westerners traveling through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal acted as early agents of globalization, ultimately importing cultural movements—such as yoga, mindfulness, and organic food—that reshaped modern Western capitalism. The publication rights were acquired globally by major publishing houses, including Allen Lane (Penguin Press) in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) in the US.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/NcX_DOl41l370Coc6kjmjU51cGg/appointments
- 1 2 3 4 Wide, Thomas (2027). The Trail: Uncovering the Psychedelic Silk Road. Allen Lane.
- ↑ https://www.thepeerage.com/p30509.htm
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/arts/design/an-afghan-bazaar-parachutes-into-washington.html
- ↑ https://bakchormeeboy.com/2025/03/19/imba-theatre-set-to-transform-singapores-cultural-landscape-with-imaginative-multi-sensory-experiences/