We're celebrating a decade of Olivia Laing's dazzling, taboo-breaking work, The Lonely City, with a beautiful new hardback edition, featuring a new afterword from Olivia. It's available to pre-order now, at your favourite local bookshop, and online: buythebook.online/the-lonely-c...

I’m in London and today is the publication day, for Nation of Strangers. You can find the book ( in several languages) here www.canongate.co.uk/nationofstra...

For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial Tix cheap! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

Hello everyone! If you’re watching Channel 4. If not, why not? ALL NEW ROMAN EMPIRE BY TRAIN ON RIGHT NOW!!!

'If you want a healthy and harmonious civil society, invest in the humanities and the arts' Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let his nightmare come true, writes Elif Safak https://bit.ly/4a0ROtL

Every American needs to watch this:

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55H... Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6cHi...

It’s been 40 years since the Chernobyl explosion, but how much do you really know about the worst nuclear disaster in history? Listen to Journey Through Time’s new series to find out.

The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said bsky.app/profile/impl...

Doing an event in Shoreham-by-Sea on Feb 4th - details here. ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/in-co...

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 Find out what happened in the crucial minutes and seconds leading up to the Chernobyl explosion in the latest episode of Journey Through Time with @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Link in replies 👇

Early reviews are in: ‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

Excited to be on this panel for the late-Victorian / Thousand Blows / Hezekiah and pals part! Georgian boxing boss Roberto Nigro is brilliant, I did my MA with him at Goldsmiths. Plus Tony Warner (Black History Walks), Black British history expert S.I. Martin, Richmond biographer Luke G. Williams!

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Bill Richmond and Tom Molineaux are to be honoured with a blue plaque in London after years of lobbying by Black History Walks 🥊👊🏾🍻 Please join us at UCL’s large auditorium, the Cruciform Building, London, 15 April 2026, 6.30pm. Tickets are free! grapplingwithhistory.com/2026/01/22/c...

In just 10 days, 10,000 people around the world Googled 'Hezekiah Moscow true story' or words to that effect and found their way to my original research blogs. Makes my heart happy that so many care for him! If only my book publisher had a pre-sale link... 😅 grapplingwithhistory.com/2026/01/09/s...

Do you want to know the story behind the world’s most famous antiwar painting? Join @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social in the latest episode in Journey Through Time’s series on the Spanish Civil War to find out more. Link in the replies 👇

My recent feature for The Voice on the TRUE story of Hezekiah Moscow #AThousandBlows is now online! Just a quick 800 words, nowhere near enough to explain this remarkable man 🥊 Book coming (many thousands of words, probably still not enough!) in ONE YEAR: www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainmen...

More Domination in the wild! And I’m on tour again in Feb/March - come along for monasteries, mosaics and more! www.alice-roberts.co.uk/tour

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 The Spanish Civil War: A Nazi Training Ground Join @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social as they look at the harrowing events that inspired one of the twentieth century's most iconic writers. Link in the replies 👇

Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4. Three absolute crackers: Daisy Fancourt’s Art Cure, Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces, and Chekhov’s youthful comedy, with Rosamund Bartlett. We bring the joy in dark January.

We welcome the return of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and the commitment to helping farmers work together at landscape and catchment scale.

If you can’t wait until 9pm this evening… Digging for Britain series 13 has already launched on iplayer! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The main man Hezekiah Moscow in The Voice Newspaper this week! Appreciate this so much 🥊 Not part of Disney's #AThousandBlows show PR, I just went rogue before Christmas 🤷🏻‍♀️ Buy the newspaper online or in print if you'd like to read without squinting: www.voice-online.co.uk/publications/

It's been nearly seven years since I first started researching and sharing Hezekiah Moscow's story on my blog. Now just over a year until my book is published. Back to writing tonight! If you enjoy/ed #AThousandBlows, please buy THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR next year, eh 🥊✌🏻 www.grapplingwithhistory.com

Well, this is a rather lovely start to the New Year: I’m so OVER THE MOON that my Domination is @waterstones non-fiction Book of the Month for January 2026! And just out in paperback too… waving to all my readers, past, present and future! www.waterstones.com/book/dominat...

#DiggingforBritain returns on 7th January with a new 6-part series on BBC Two with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, and includes two @nationaltrust.org.uk properties: 4th February - Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire 5th February - St Michael's Mount, Cornwall. Tune in to find out more!

Repair. Rework. Renew. Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime. Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/

Robert Catesby - leader of the Roman Catholic conspirators (Guy Fawkes’ boss!) who plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November 1605. 💥LISTEN TO THE FULL STORY IN THE LATEST JOURNEY THROUGH TIME💥 linktr.ee/journeythrou...

Merry Christmas to all! We have done a special series for @throughtimepod.bsky.social on A Christmas Carol. I think @davidolusoga.bsky.social & I both loved doing it & hope you enjoy listening. Also I must apologize to all fans of Fan for calling her Fran. Yikes!😱 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/5...

What's behind door No.2️⃣4️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 TOTAL INCOMPETENCE! Thank you to everyone who's engaged with this advent calendar that I IMMEDIATELY regretted starting three weeks ago. I don't know why I do this to myself. I've got enough shit to do! Happy Holidays!

What's behind door No.2️⃣1️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 It's Susie Chan! Endurance runner, Peleton instructor, author, and amazing human being, Susie, was a guest on the podcast alongside the brilliant Dr Julie Johnston. Listen now at eightypercentmental.com

What's behind door No.1️⃣9️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 ALPHA MALES! It's nonsense, but for the sake of our young men - and women - it's nonsense that we have to actively counter... as well as most definitely make fun of! #alpha #alphamale #sigma #psychology #wellbeing

The @histchild.bsky.social conference is coming to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social in July 2026. Call for papers has been extended until Monday 22nd December. Please share - especially with research students and ECRs! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

The Ghost of Racism Past The Ghost of Racism Present The Ghost of Racism Yet to Come

During WWII, the U.S. Army attempted to enforce racial segregation in British towns - a story rarely taught! Join @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social as they reveal the history of Black GIs in the latest Journey Through Time series. Link in the replies👇

Meet the woman who defended Jimmy Lai. A career representing journalists who are facing persecution has put a target on Caoilfhionn Gallagher’s back. It makes life complicated.

What do we have for day 1️⃣2️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 LIKES, SHARES, & ADVERTISING REVENUE. "Burnout isn't real! We're not candles! People can't burn out!" Marv, and what are you basing this analysis on? "Absolutely nothing at all, but that's not important, my dudes."

This is one of the most extraordinary, mic drop moments you will ever see in Congress. In a previous time, the Secretary would have resigned - or have been fired - before the sun set.

What's behind door No.1️⃣1️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 A guarantee of life changing neural re-wiring if you do these three simple things ... maybe. Ah, the internet. Unregulated nonsense galore. Be careful out there!

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Sooo... I'm on BBC Civilisations at 9pm this evening talking about Aztecs, and I've been persuaded to overcome my dislike of LinkedIn and use it to share what I'm reliably informed is a 'carousel' of information and tips for teachers using it in the classroom.

Open books, open minds. Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now, drawn from this week’s event drop. Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/shop/hayfest...

PUBLIC BOOKING STARTS NOW. Roll up, roll up! hayfestival.org/hay-on-wye

What's behind door No.6️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 It's the brilliant Dr. Kate Hays on the Eighty Percent Mental podcast. Get this episode by visiting eightypercentmental.com Or listen wherever you normally get your podcasts 🎙️🎧

Back down in London, doing London things. Talking burnout with Kimberly Wilson for her podcast 'Complex' on BBC Sounds. This episode will be out Dec 17, so see if you can hold on to your excitement until then!

PRIORITY BOOKING IS NOW OPEN. Roll up, roll up! www.hayfestival.org/hay-on-wye/h...

“We all want quiet, we all want beauty, we all need space” These are the words of one of our three founders, Octavia Hill. Born on this day in 1838, she worked tirelessly to improve urban housing and to protect green spaces. The impact of her life and work is still being felt today.

Well done to our colleague @davidedgerton.bsky.social who appears in the 3rd episode of @davidolusoga.bsky.social #empire series on #BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Harriet Tubman risked everything to lead enslaved people to freedom and never failed. Join @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social as they examine her missions in detail, uncovering the skill and courage behind each journey. Link in the replies👇