David Olusoga

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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.

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What's behind door No.1 of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? 🌲🎁🧑🏿‍🎄

A brilliant episode feat. Dr Kristin McGinty-Minister and Dr Laura Swettenham on how to look after our mental health in the online age💻

Visit eightypercentmental.com or listen wherever you normally get your podcasts 🎙️🎧

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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Nikita Gill and Natalie Haynes - Hay Festival The stories of Medea and Hekate, explored by two doyennes of the retelling of Greek myths. Thrilling tales of witchcraft and vengeance.

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Nick Clegg talks to Decca Aitkenhead - Hay Festival The former deputy prime minister and president of global affairs at Meta tackles the big questions around the future of the internet and Big Tech.

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When A Thousand Blows came out, other historians had a dig too. A couple have done great stuff! Most journos and critics ripped off my blog without credit. Some cited and/or talked to me. David Olusoga, Jason Okundaye, Lanre Bakare, Sabrina Barr - thank you.

Hezekiah's true story is coming soon :)

Sepia photo of a slim 5ft 7 Black or Black mixed heritage Chinese man photographed in East London 1888 by Harry Carpenter. He wears a velvet material dark jacket, a waistcoat and trousers and stands in a photographer's studio against a painted parlour palm backdrop. His eyebrows have been drawn on, possibly by someone trying to replicate the photo in high quality.

Been researching this man, Hezekiah Moscow, since February 2019. He went by a nickname that was spelled a billion different ways so getting to the truth is TOUGH. Findings today for the book have blown open doors. New things after six years! AND all because of collaboration. Buy my book. Thanks 😂

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Who’s up for some more tomorrow?

Historian Sarah Churchwell on what Hollywood gets wrong about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

Catch up! youtu.be/LQNljwh4QD8

What sparked the Paris Commune?
How did a starving Paris turn rebellion into a radical experiment?
Why did its 72-day revolution end in fire and blood?

Join @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social as they explore siege, uprising, bold reforms, and the “bloody week”.

Rabih Alameddine and Omar El Akkad among National Book Award winners

Our publishing reasserts the value of expertise by foregrounding authors at the top of their games globally, helping them develop their research, says Oxford University Press’ new academic boss, Sophie Goldsworthy 👇 #BookSky

Hay Festival Book Club – The Great Gatsby Hay Festival Book Club – The Great Gatsby

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Thank you!! There are still shows in York, Glasgow, Stoke, Hull and Richmond. Then that’s it!

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Uncover generations of family history for up to 30% off. Offer ends 30 November @findmypast.bsky.social T&Cs apply
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Union with David Olusoga - Series 1: 1. The Making of Britain David Olusoga tells the story of attempts to form a united Britain in the 17th and early 18th centuries, a period defined by religious and cultural divisions.

And I give you my last series - that makes exactly that point, using the colonisation of Ulster is the starting point and describing it as a 'colony'. It's not in this new series because that would be repetition.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony.

open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

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What was the Paris Commune of 1871?

Join @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social as they look at the days leading up to The Paris Commune, the working class revolution that shook the world!

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Remembrance Day image - group of World War I soldiers sitting together behind sandbag barricade, smiling and equipped with gear.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them 🌹

Today, as the nation falls silent, we remember the stories behind the names, the ancestors who served, and those who never returned.

Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek

Team work 🫡

Miriam Wannop, a white woman in her early 50s with hair in bun poses in doorway with three of her youngest children - a girl around 4, a taller girl around 14 (both dressed in white) and a boy around ten, small and slight in a flatcap, suit, long socks and boots.

The young boy from the previous photo in a smarter suit poses for a studio photo, he is in his late teens or early 20s.

Many of the 1880s boxers and wrestlers I research were of an age to have sons who served in WWI.

Wrestling Champion Jack Wannop and wife Miriam had 10 children, two dying as babies. All four adult sons served.

This is Miriam with little Hilda, May and Sidney.

Both May and Sidney died in 1918.

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

Delve deeper into your family tree by finding lost relatives who served in WWI. Ensure their service & sacrifice are never forgotten. Free access until 13th November.
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Pledge to Remember: Search your family’s military story for free today 🎖️

Search for your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or your family name. Each search is a pledge to ensure their service & sacrifice are never forgotten.

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Currently at the Bristol Beacon supporting @davidolusoga.bsky.social's A Gun Through Time.
Do come and have a chat with us!

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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”