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

Last month we celebrated a major milestone: the topping out of our future home at 65 Crutched Friars. This was a special construction marker and an occasion to recognise that Britain’s first permanent Migration Museum is now moving from vision to reality! Photos: Mike O’Dwyer

📢 Christmas has come early as we’ve just announced 9 brand-new shows for everyone to enjoy in 2026! From breathtaking music from English Touring Opera to talks with David Olusoga, from I’m Grand Mam podcast to comedy with Henning Wehn, Ravi Gupta and more! Book Now, www.hackneyempire.co.uk/whats-on

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

Join me and the team @bharchives.bsky.social tonight for episode 2: Alice Roberts - Our Hospital Through Time.

Great to be back on tour again! Lovely crowd at Dorking tonight. I’m heading on to Tunbridge Wells tomorrow, Richmond on Tuesday, then Malvern, Ipswich, Basingstoke, Frome, Worthing & Salford in March. Signing paperbacks of Domination everywhere I go!

'How were royal wagons circled during earlier chapters in this grim saga? Who knew what, when?' Few would have thought the king’s brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, would ever be treated like a commoner suspected of a similar offence, writes David Olusoga https://bit.ly/3OqFTgs

Look everyone. If the sliding stones are just too stressful, switch to Channel 4 for a lovely trip to Rome. I’m there.

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...