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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: 10 yrs on. @davidolusoga.bsky.social + I will be chewing the fat @unionchapeluk.bsky.social 20/7: history, prehistory + the return of scientific racism. Pic from 2016: I'm 10yrs craggier/less smug looking now. www.intelligencesquared.com/events/adam-...

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall

Me and @davidolusoga.bsky.social at the Union Chapel, 20th July, talking history, prehistory, and the unwelcome return of scientific racism. I went to Björk performing by candlelight at the Union Chapel once. Quite chuffed about this. unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...

Join our panel of award-winning authors, historians, scientists and broadcasters for a high-stakes, high-altitude debate! Tuesday 7 July | 18:00-19:30 | Senate House You decide what stays, and what gets thrown overboard! Register now: https://bit.ly/4u2brs2

You are a survivor of many great dyings. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever? This Thursday (6 pm), join us for a talk on the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Book here: bit.ly/49HM5bM

Publication day for the 10 year, totally rewritten, anniversary edition of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. arutherford.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...

📍 Liverpool, 1954 Mirror photographer Bela Zola took these wonderful photos of the city, capturing everyday life a decade after the war ended.

A new letter signed by more than 60 MPs and Lords is based on the original smear published by the Daily Telegraph ✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

Did any of your grandparents have one of these classic names? Have they reappeared in your family tree in more recent years? 🌳

That feeling when you find a letter written by your great-grandfather buried in his military service records 😮 Thank you to Findmypast team member Ellie for sharing this with us ❤️

That's good advice! I've asked my editor if I can go a bit over the word limit but she hasn't replied 🤷🏻‍♀️ So I might just save myself a job, do a BIT of trimming now but keep it a bit loose and free!

I have written an 87,000 word book in 11 months while working full time, doing some freelance bits, and keeping a toddler and two cats alive. My own health is currently questionable, but we can't have it all. 20 days to cut about 7,000 words of it and submit 😅

Another reminder for our very timely online event tomorrow, 6 May – with @nesrinemalik.bsky.social talking to @trillingual.bsky.social about how the British media made the far right acceptable, introduced by @shainin.bsky.social. Free to all! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-the-br...

🇮🇪 The 1926 Census of Ireland is now available to delve into for free over at The National Archives of Ireland. Who will you be searching for first? 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vRyQyr

On Monday evening (27 April) we will be at G-Live, Guildford, to support @davidolusoga.bsky.social for his @faneproductions.bsky.social ‘A Gun Through Time’ stage show. We had the opportunity to show the devastation of the #VickersMG a few weeks ago and the audience get to see this.

Been sent outtakes from the shoot I did with Der Spiegel recently and it's the first time in YEARS anyone has taken a photograph of me that I've liked. Creeping in an old pub with the lad I've been stalking for seven years, a classic. The table is missing a wine. Had one after. 📷 Ossi Piispanen

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to @garethknapman.bsky.social for alerting me to the digital availability of the Victorian Protectorate of Aborigines files now: prov.vic.gov.au/archive/VPRS11 Would have made the writing of www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... a whole lot easier if they'd been digitised 15 years ago!

Guardian owner heralds next phase in Legacies of Enslavement restorative justice plan

📣 LAST CHANCE TO GET TICKETS TO HISTFEST 2026! BRITISH LIBRARY | 18-19 APRIL There’s still time to grab your tickets to the most exciting history festival in London. Speakers include Sir Michael Palin, Ruth Goodman, Raksha Dave, Greg Jenner and many more! BOOK NOW! histfest.org/histfest-2026/

You can read one writer’s account of being targeted by one of these scams at stephaniewilliamswrites.substack.com/p/what-every...

Coming up I have an event on Wednesday 29 April at the Royal Armouries in Leeds (both in-person and online), book here to get your free ticket or link.

How about giving a few quid to support a new blue plaque in London celebrating Black history? Only takes a minute to do your good deed for the day 🗃️

This looks like a super interesting talk! Richmond Unchained is such a good book for anyone interested in Black British history or the Georgian/Regency period. Or boxing!

Out today!

Black History Walks have campaigned and received permission to have a blue plaque installed on the National Gallery in Central London for Molineaux and Richmond. It's not cheap, and fundraising isn't quite there yet. Every little bit helps, thank you: www.gofundme.com/f/blue-plaqu...

We're in a big auditorium at UCL on Weds for Champion Black Boxers and Businessmen in 1800s London - talk, film, panel, about Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Bridgerton, A Thousand Blows! Join Tony Warner, Roberto Nigro, Luke G. Williams, S. I. Martin & me: FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/champion-b...

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing, NATURE’S GENIUS by David Farrier is a mind-expanding account of how we shape the lives of animals and plants – and how they shape us 🌲 uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

FOREIGN FRUIT by Katie Gogh is a hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the cultivation of the orange to explore identity 🍊 Available now! uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

FOOD FIGHT by Stuart Gillespie follows a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy, exposing how malnutrition is enmeshed with other crises and what we can all do to change it 🍔 uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

LONELY CROWDS by Stephanie Wambugu is a piercing debut set in the glamorous 90s NYC art scene, centring on a friendship teetering on the obsessive 🎨 uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

Happy publication day to all! Robert Seethaler stuns with THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME a historical tale set in 1960s Vienna, THE LAST MOVEMENT, a portrait of an artist at the end of his life. Plus, his Man Booker International shortlisted A WHOLE LIFE! uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

Canongate has acquired Dissenters: A Handbook for Rebels and Reformers at Work by Lindsay Kohler, a London-based behavioural scientist and Forbes contributor. Read more 👇

Keir Starmer urged to ban ‘cruel’ greyhound racing in England

The past is never done with: always the song continues Happy Publication Day to Yann Martel with SON OF NOBODY, a gripping new novel that connects the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of life in modern-day Oxford. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/son-...

Alec Munroe - Alexander Hayes Munroe (1849, Kingston, Jamaica - 1885, Whitechapel, London). I usually have to crawl under a bush to say hello, but it has lost all its leaves!

Good morning, Sugar Goodson 👊🏻 #AThousandBlows

The message is simple: our future depends on nature. Join the Nature = Future campaign today: buff.ly/7ipENOm

We need to have a real conversation about nature. Nature is fundamental to our wellbeing, our prosperity and our long-term future. When we restore, protect and invest in nature, we can lower everyday bills, create healthier communities and ensure a better quality of life for everyone.

Interested in hearing more about dinosaur research at Birmingham, including the "Dinosaur Highway" and the "punk rock dinosaur"? Join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social me & @kirstymedgar.bsky.social online on Thursday 7 May, 6pm. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/bring... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K88...

I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Who was your gran before you came along? 🩷 Where did she grow up? Who was her first love? What did she do for work?

Psst: My book is now available in the U.K. today. I spent two of the happiest years of my life as a graduate student there, studying economics and philosophy. It brings back some fond memories... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/psst-my-book-available-in-the-uk

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

Two weeks today! Book your FREE ticket now: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Love history? Love podcasts? Historian Lucy Worsley has a great recommendation for you 🎙️ 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4ra35gB

Today's the day... 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' hits cinemas 😮 🎥 Will you be heading to see it? Or perhaps delving into our newspapers to find evidence of the real Peaky Blinders? 📰

Canongate has landed The Fox from Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Macmanus, popularly known as Annie Mac 👇 #BookSky