📢 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.
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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!
22.02.2026 20:56 — 👍 276 🔁 16 💬 11 📌 1
'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.
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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...
12.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1I’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...
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Totally Chaotic History: Roman Britain Gets Rowdy Tue 17 Feb 2026, 3pm Be astounded by unbelievable and hilarious facts as bestselling author Greg Jenner takes us on a riotously fun journey through Roman Britain Www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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!!!
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'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:
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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
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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!
27.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A 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.
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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...
Pablo Picasso's Guernica
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.
A wintry view of a mountainous landscape. It is raining with snow visible on the rocky tops. At the bottom of the slopes are green fields. A sheep is seen in the foreground. A farm building and sheds can be seen beyond a stone boundary wall.
We welcome the return of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and the commitment to helping farmers work together at landscape and catchment scale.
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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...
Cover of The Voice Newspaper's lifestyle section featuring four stories, including a portrait of Hezekiah and the title 'The real Hezekiah Moscow took 'A Thousand Blows'.
Full page newspaper layout with headline THE REMARKABLE STORY OF BOXER HEZEKIAH MOSCOW. An 800 word feature by me (Sarah Elizabeth Cox) sums up the real Moscow's life and career. It is illustrated by his boxing pose photo, a pic of actors Malachi Kirby and Stephen Graham as Hez and Sugar Goodson, and a newspaper advert for Hezekiah at the Sebright Music Hall in the late 1880s.
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/
