Looking forward to the Fresh Prince and Cosby show chapters especially
31.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats!
31.10.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Modern British History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
I’m speaking about Salman Rushdie at the Cambridge Modern History seminar, St John’s College tomorrow afternoon. Join us if you can
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
29.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow, this is insane!
25.10.2025 23:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rosie from Juno Books selling the lads
25.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I feel seen 😳
25.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watch this space for my more considered review in print 😉
25.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I found that one kind of contrived tbh. Loved the others though, especially The Musician of Kahani!
25.10.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happening tonight in the steel city
25.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow, @writersmosaic joins @OffTheShelfFest for 'Diverse Islands' - a vital conversation on race, identity & multiculturalism across the UK & Ireland. 🌍📚
With Kieran Connell, Emer O’Neill, Charlotte Rea-Patel & host John Siddique. In partnership with @SpeakVolumes.
24.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks!
24.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kieran Connell's favourite historical non-fiction books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
Was asked by @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social to pick my favourite non fiction books. Basically went for the books I had by my side as I wrote MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Featuring books by @sarahknott.bsky.social, @bungatuffie.bsky.social & Mike Davis, among others 👇
uk.bookshop.org/lists/kieran...
23.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Kieran Connell's favourite historical non-fiction books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
Was asked by @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social to pick my favourite non fiction books. Basically went for the books I had by my side as I wrote MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Featuring books by @sarahknott.bsky.social, @bungatuffie.bsky.social & Mike Davis, among others 👇
uk.bookshop.org/lists/kieran...
23.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Looking for #history book recommendations?
Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) has selected some of his favourite historical non-fiction books, which you can check out on our
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page ⬇️ 📚
uk.bookshop.org/lists/kieran...
23.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Original and captivating."
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Kieran Connell's (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) for the 2025 prize.
22.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
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22.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In partnership with Speaking Volumes through their Breaking Ground Ireland Arts Council England funded project
If you’re in Sheffield or the vicinity this Sat night, why not come along to this @otsfestival.bsky.social discussion of multiculturalism with myself, Emer O’Neill & others. Tickets and details 👇
offtheshelf.org.uk/events/diver...
22.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social), the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted author, on learning from the mistakes of the past.
Discover more about Kieran Connell through the Q&A on our website ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/author-inter...
21.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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For this week's #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist showcase, we'll be spotlighting 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' by Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social)
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...
20.10.2025 12:34 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Looking forward to taking part in this discussion in Dublin in a couple of weeks. Join us if you can!
dublin.europarl.europa.eu/en/events/le...
17.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great piece
14.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Without doubt one of the smuggest men in Britain
13.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apache Indian could teach Jenrick a thing or two about in...
Growing up in diverse Birmingham defined my world view. What other city could have inspired Apache Indian’s mash-up?
Handsworth legend Apache Indian is everything Robert Jenrick claims to want — he’s a symbol of the diversity of modern Britain.
But instead of celebrating voices like his, our leaders cling to Union Jacks like toddlers at a funfair.
My piece in today’s Observer👇
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
12.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Thanks, Moritz
12.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
A magazine of politics, culture and art
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Just holding up a mirror to local politics.
Not the real DUP, obviously. Parody.
Research & investigations at @isdglobal.bsky.social looking at technology, extremism & disinformation. Via Storyful, University of Amsterdam & Dublin City University. Liúdramán-at-large. Contact: DM me or email media@isdglobal.org #osint
UK magazine investigating, exposing fascists, racists & far right since 1975. Website: https://searchlightmagazine.com and at https://x.com/Searchlight_mag and Facebook
Showcasing the best in Rememberancing and Poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Wear your poppy/where's your poppy.
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Assistant newsletter editor and writer at the Guardian
Mixed race irish writer, poet, cello player, garlic grower and gin infusion enthusiast.
Breaking Ground Ireland 2022, Foundation Programme participant Irish Writer’s Centre 2022 and Flash Fiction Armagh participant 2023.
Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain 🍞🌹 she/her 🍉
Novelist, among other things.
Díchoilíniú anois 🇵🇸
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Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
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A new professional body supporting scholarship in Modern British Studies: more details coming soon!
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Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture.
Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
Hope is not a form of guarantee; it’s a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. (John Berger)
