Love this image from yesterday's 1st Birmingham Council meeting. Green councillor, Hamzah Sheikh, hand-in-paw with a guide dog belonging to a Lib Dem councillor. A touching plea for connection & kindness: a timely reminder to unite around everything that inspires us, including our fellow creatures.

Press Release: Joint statement on running Birmingham City Council birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/19/p...

Love this image from yesterday's 1st Birmingham Council meeting. Green councillor, Hamzah Sheikh, hand-in-paw with a guide dog belonging to a Lib Dem councillor. A touching plea for connection & kindness: a timely reminder to unite around everything that inspires us, including our fellow creatures.

National Trust continuing to learn more about Britain's colonial past - here, a painting in Saltram, Devon. @corinnefowler.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...

Interesting times in my city following the local elections on 7 May birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/12/b...

2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.

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Totally agree!! We are spoilt for choice this year for primary workshops! And we also offer reduced price tickets for primary teachers from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... - Early Bird offer closes at the end of the month so don't miss out!

Brum Greens have a candidate in every one of the 101 council seats up for election in Birmingham on 7 May. In Bournville and Cotteridge you can #VoteGreenInBrum for Roxanne Green and Richard Winter. Our full list of candidates is at birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/candidates-2... #VoteGreen

www.speakersfestivals.com/lewes-speake... I'll be giving two walks based on my book #OurIslandStories for this festival on Saturday 9th May, 2026 in #Lewes @lewesdc.bsky.social

Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social

850 years of Brum history at risk, potentially for some more student blocks 😖

www.speakersfestivals.com/lewes-speake... I'll be giving two walks based on my book #OurIslandStories for this festival on Saturday 9th May, 2026 in #Lewes @lewesdc.bsky.social

Yesterday Hannah Spencer MP came to Birmingham to help us celebrate having a candidate in every single one of the 101 Birmingham local council seats, meaning EVERYONE in Brum can #VoteGreen on May 7! #VoteGreenInBrum

New #OnlyinBirmingham podcast episode 2 on the Birmingham Bull Ring market closure podlink.com/1852555730/e...

Sunday listening from my Only in Birmingham podcast On the closure of the Birmingham Bull Ring market with Raj Pal. podlink.com/1852555730/e...

Sunday listening from my Only in Birmingham podcast On the closure of the Birmingham Bull Ring market with Raj Pal. podlink.com/1852555730/e...

New episode out today

Latest episode on Birmingham Bull Ring market: history, closure, why it matters podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

Short review of my new #OnlyinBirmingham podcast with Raj Pal www.wearebrig.co.uk/news/only-in...

Short review of my new #OnlyinBirmingham podcast with Raj Pal www.wearebrig.co.uk/news/only-in...

Great article www.liverpool.ac.uk/csis/blog/20...

Celebrating these women who use their time and skill for fun postbox-topping art that also educates. I've often wondered who they are and here are some of their faces ourscene.org/fruity-foots...

100%. Birmingham has a road safety emergency. We cannot tolerate road deaths. Behind every collision is a parent, partner, child, grandparent & the wrecked lives of those left behind. We will work with residents to address this emergency and create safe, healthy routes through the city.

“The resolution - proposed by Ghana - was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina. Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great article www.liverpool.ac.uk/csis/blog/20...

💥Every Monument Will Fall UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026 Thur 30 April Birmingham Fri 1 May London Tue 5 May Oxford Wed 6 May Manchester Thurs 7 May Bristol More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

The 5 objects I contributed were: Desi Pubs (cultural meeting places) Tipu's Tiger (wooden Indian tiger mauls European soldier) The Bronte sisters (female talent) Benjamin Zephaniah (humour & moral muscle) Tolpuddle Martyrs (courage; concern for all) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#OtD 17 Mar 1916 half of the 12,000 women working at the Armstrong-Whitworth Elswick munitions factory in Newcastle went on strike for better pay. They won on 24 March, and went out again in 1917 winning more improvements including tea breaks stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8905...

Birmingham's Midland Hotel hosted the Conservative MP Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 but, earlier than this, Labour's Oswald Mosley broke the Chamberlains' grip on power in 1929 before creating his new fascist party. By 1931, Birmingham people had violently driven him out of the city.

Birmingham's Midland Hotel hosted the Conservative MP Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 but, earlier than this, Labour's Oswald Mosley broke the Chamberlains' grip on power in 1929 before creating his new fascist party. By 1931, Birmingham people had violently driven him out of the city.

New-ish film I participated in about colonial Yorkshire. See thread for link and password to see the film @themerl.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers! vimeo.com/755262849

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers! vimeo.com/755262849

"We're not an island of strangers, we're an island of neighbours." Will be interesting to see what happens in my city Birmingham (7 May) which, as local historians point out, has always been the front line of Fascism: Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.

Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

We're fundraising for our campaigns in May. Bold Ambition for Birmingham - Election 2026! 1000 people giving £10, 500 people giving £20, or 200 people giving £50 would get us to our first target. Can you help? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/2026-start...

More about the colonial history of #Heathcliff & the Colonial Brontes exhibition indianexpress.com/article/book...

Find out what the #Bronte children read and how it influenced their mayor novels, including #WutheringHeights www.bronte.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Next Wednesday!! le.ac.uk/victorian-st...

Find out what the #Bronte children read and how it influenced their mayor novels, including #WutheringHeights www.bronte.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Here in Birmingham. Free for young people www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-histo...

The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth? alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

Our Land tickets with Robert Beckford, Hodge Hill Birmingham 7.30pm 18th March www.tickettailor.com/events/hodge...