Defiance on trial: actors bring to life courtroom speeches by Russian anti-war oppositionists, followed by discussion on dissent, repression and the politics of resistance. 📍 Clerici Learning Studio 🗓️ Wednesday 15 April ⏰ 6pm Use this link to book your ticket- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Get your ticket for the Think Human Festival 2026! Join us from 15-18 April for a fantastic line up of free events. There will be craft workshops, guided tours of Oxford, political discussion and much more. Sign up to save your place: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Oxford people please join us for a performance followed by a discussion with Simon Pirani (Durham University), Anastasia Riabchuk (University of Oxford/National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) and Denis Shedov (ODIHR/Memorial/OVD-Info) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/try-me-for...

Keep an eye out for these posters appearing in cafes, libraries, and other public spaces for my @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event with @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre! Please share and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... #HIV #UequalsU #Oxford

And a free exhibition on the hospital’s history. Not an easy subject, but it’s one which really matters. See you there 👇👇👇

Join us for a short film about the history of Warneford hospital and a discussion on creating environments which foster recovery for people facing mental health challenges. 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, JHB 🗓️ Wednesday 15 April ⏰ 5pm Use the link to book your ticket- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

What can we learn from the Blair governments, and are there any lessons that are still relevant for Keir Starmer today? Join this lively panel discussion, at Oxford Brookes University, next month. Tickets & info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-labour... Part of @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social.

Experience the power of craft and creativity! Join us for a hands-on beaded bracelet workshop inspired by traditional craft practices from Lagos, Nigeria 📍 OVADA 🗓️ Saturday 18 April ⏰ 2pm Use this link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre 4 WEEKS from today for this @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event on 'Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV' Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... Other events: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Limited places on this one, and filling up fast! Part of our brilliant Think Human Festival at Oxford Brookes 🌟👇

This will be a great event, bringing historians from Oxford Brookes together with experts from the Ashmolean. And it’s completely free! 👑🏆🏅Join us at MoX - sign up here 👇👇👇

Ever dreamt of finding treasure? Join us for a talk on The History of Treasure Hunting, followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A. 📍 Museum of Oxford 🗓️ Thursday 16 April ⏰ 1pm Click the link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Join Professor Gary Browning on an Oxford walk to discover what Oxford’s streets, pubs and colleges tell us about four women philosophers who transformed moral philosophy. 📍 Outside The King’s Arms pub 🗓️ Saturday 18 April ⏰ 11am Use this link to book your ticket- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Sign the petition to save Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace for the community! c.org/kNJSxbgsWy

Oxford people! Join us! This event will explore the remarkable links between an Oxfordshire village and the history of nineteenth-century slavery. Led by my excellent colleague Dr Niall Munro. Free and open to everyone. 👇

Join us to explore the life of Harriet Jacobs, one of the most remarkable African American figures of the nineteenth century. 📍 The Old Fire Station Cafe 🗓️ Thursday 16 April ⏰ 6:30pm Click the link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Interested in local history? Then you’ll love this event about four female philosophers who lived in Oxford. Celebrated actress Annette Badland will perform readings. 📍 Oxford Friends Meeting House 🗓️ Friday 17 April ⏰ 6:30pm Use this link to book your ticket- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

What’s the sound of grassroots football? Bring your bells and whistles. Another distinctive and original public humanities event from Think Human at Oxford Brookes ⚽️ 👏

This will be a powerful and important conversation. Part of Think Human here at Oxford Brookes 👇

Learn more about the people who are speaking up against the Russo-Ukrainian war. In this immersive event, actors will perform speeches made by Russians - tried for opposing the war. 📍Clerici Learning Studio 🗓️ Wednesday 15 April ⏰ 6pm Book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

What does football sound like when you strip away the Premier League and return to grassroots? Join us to explore the sounds of the sport. 📍 Clerici Learning Studio, Oxford Brookes University 🗓️ Wednesday 15 April ⏰ 3:30pm Use this link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Tickets available now!

This will be a fantastic discussion 👏👏👏

What can we learn from New Labour’s time in power? Join Professor Glen O’Hara, Anneliese Dodds, and Patrick Diamond as they discuss the Blair governments. 📍 Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall 🗓️ Thursday 16 April ⏰ 6:30pm Use this link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Check out the Think Human 2026 Eventbrite collection now! There are 12 free events that you can attend between 15-18 April. Use this link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum... #ThinkHuman #OxfordBrookes #Humanities #Festival #FreeEvents #Oxford

Join me in Oxford on 16 April for a discussion about New Labour and the Third Way! Guests are @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social and Patrick Diamond, who worked for Blair in No. 10. Should be fascinating stuff.

The Think Human Festival 2026 programme is live! Join us from 15-18 April for a fantastic line up of free events. There will be craft workshops, guided tours of Oxford, political discussion and much more. Sign up to save your place: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

NEW! Even more New Labour content from me... Back in May 2025 I discussed Blair's governments with @jydenham.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Brookes @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social festival. Take a look at the video of my talk and our back-and-forth! It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw1p...

This evening! Looking forward to this conversation at the wonderful Caper Bookshop in East Oxford.

Join our colleague Dr. Pete Harris for this important conversation with Dr. Jackson Katz, author of Every Man - Why violence against women is a men's issue At Caper book shop on 10 June checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

Universities excel at providing access to debate - fantastic discussion tonight with Glen O’Hara and John Denham on taking the long view on New Labour in power.

I so enjoyed last week's Think Human Festival at Oxford Brookes! Thank you to the team, speakers, and local community for contributing to such a lovely & exciting programme of events. 👍😍

A full house @ArtsatOFS for our last event of Think Human Festival 2025 - The Magic of Film Music Thank you all for coming!

A pleasure to support the Craft and Creativity for Social Change workshop for Think Human Festival on Saturday at @ovadagallery.bsky.social and witness the sense of community created through the making beautiful things.

Talking about my current project today and taking questions @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social not photography but life, but then photography is life...

Today at Think Human Festival - Join us in The Forum, John Henry Brookes Building, for our Craft & Creativity for Social Change activity! And check out the brilliant Navigating Hybrid Work Exhibition while you are there.

📣Tomorrow! Join @unofphoto.bsky.social and @drkdwatson.bsky.social at Think Human Festival tomorrow to explore the trials tribulations of writing a true life crime book when it is also your family history. Sign up below👇👇

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our Olive Gibbs event. Our brilliant panel helped to shine a light on a remarkable figure in Oxford’s history, whose legacy deserves more recognition. We’re also very grateful to our audience for sharing their personal stories of Olive Gibbs!

Very much enjoyed this discussion of New Labour and its legacy last night - our guest John Denham was in particular both critical and reflective, and I think our emergent views of the Third Way as history got pushed forward quite a way. 👍👍👍

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us yesterday evening for our New Labour in Power event! It was great to hear @jydenham.bsky.social and @gsoh31.bsky.social discuss the Blair governments and what lessons might be drawn for our current Labour government.

Join us at Think Human Festival this evening to celebrate the legacy of Olive Gibbs: A Remarkable Woman Our documentary screening and discussion is free and open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1259297957...

TONIGHT at Oxford Brookes University... At 6pm I'll be talking about New Labour in historical context, and I'll be in conversation with ex-Cabinet Minister John Denham about the Blair years. Be there! www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

The Think Human Team is in The Forum with cakes, badges and programmes. Come and say hello!

Think Human Festival week is here! We are looking forward to welcoming you to this timely discussion tomorrow Sign up to save your place 👇

Oxford people! Join us on campus on 10 May. Universities *can* still be places of thoughtful and humane creativity 👇

Discover the legacy of Olive Gibbs - peace campaigner, politician and education advocate - through a film screening of ‘Olive Gibbs: A Remarkable Woman’ followed by a panel discussion on her enduring legacy 📍Headington Campus 🗓️ Thursday 8 May ⏰6pm Register here👇 bit.ly/4iSvx2Z @gary1234.bsky.social

Come hear me talking about my next book that has little to do with photography!!!

Join @drkdwatson.bsky.social in conversation with @unofphoto.bsky.social next Saturday for a talk dealing with the issues encountered researching two murders that took place in 1959. Book your spot below👇

Join @drkdwatson.bsky.social in conversation with @unofphoto.bsky.social next Saturday for a talk dealing with the issues encountered researching two murders that took place in 1959. Book your spot below👇

Take a look at our amazing Oxford Brookes @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social schedule! Tons of events for everyone between 7 May and 10 May this year! There's a QR below you can use too. Come along, I'm really looking forward to it.