Tim Minshall

“The book is unapologetically nerdy, though more technical details are smoothed over by humour and human insight.”

Thanks @irishtimes.com for the review

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

Current reading pipeline

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Role models for young children mean a fairer future for us all | Ingenia Ingenia focuses on all aspects of engineering. Our articles showcase a wide range of engineering and technology innovation, from robotics and data to the latest in renewable energy and medical technol...

“That meagre 16% still equates to nearly a million women working in engineering and technology in the UK today. We have about 20,000 primary schools, so that is 50 women as engineering role models for every primary school!“

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Thanks to the team at the Felixstowe Book Festival for giving me the chance to come back to #felixstowe for a great discussion … and a chance to be given another glimpse of this key node in our global manufacturing network.
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Still fresh! Thanks @waterstones

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Thanks @charnwoodstoves.bsky.social - glad you found it interesting.

Great evening to celebrate the launch of David Cleevely’s book ‘Serendipity’ that explores the power of networking to support innovation.

#innovation #networking #cambridge

'An expert and highly enthusiastic tour around the business of making things.'

Your Life is Manufactured by Tim Minshall is one of the the FT's Best Summer Books of 2025: www.ft.com/content/025b...

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Your life is manufactured — here’s why | Tim Minshall | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

Many thanks to the team at #TEDXLondonBusinessSchool for editing this video of my talk on #manufacturing and why it matters to us all, now more than ever.

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Thanks!

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Best summer books of 2025: Business

Thanks @financialtimes.com - surprised and delighted to see my book on this list.

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Only 4 hours left!

#books #nonfiction #manufacturing #discount

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I woke to find that Amazon is offering a special deal today - ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ for #Kindle is now on #sale for one day only for £2.19!

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A really productive @ifmcambridge.bsky.social awayday at the wonderful Møller Institute.

#manufacturing #sustainability #industrialpolicy #scaleup #skills #leadership #transformation

Finding Meaning in Making | Cheltenham Festivals Where do the things we buy actually come from? We live in a manufactured world,  in constant contact with man-made products and most of us don’t really kno

Excited to be heading to Cheltenham Science Festival to talk this afternoon about #making and #manufacturing with Dr Anna Ploszajski.
Tickets via www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/findi...

Great day at Derby #Book #Festival! Excellent questions from the audience including:
Is the 'right to repair' really going to make a real difference to improving manufacturing sustainability?
What does 'repairability' really mean?
What's the environmental impact of manufacturing a book?

How we make things - and how we could do it better Tim Minshall is the University of Cambridge's first Professor of Innovation and author of new book, Your Life Is Manufactured.

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Thanks Jenny - so glad you enjoyed it! In case you wanted to dig deeper into some of the topics covered, you might want to take a look at www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk

Many thanks to the wonderful @hayfestival.bsky.social team for making my whole experience at this amazing event so stress-free & thoroughly enjoyable. A privilege & delight to have a full house for a great discussion on the role & importance of #manufacturing

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Still pinching myself that this is actually happening

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Screenshot of an audio book in the borrow box app. Book is Your Life Is Manufactured by Tim Minshall.

I seem to get plenty of recs from following clever & knowledgeable people on social media.
Or stumbling upon a book in a library (or on their app).
I loved this book - (please excuse the colour overlay)

*Very* excited to be travelling to Hay-on-Wye to talk about ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ tomorrow at the @hayfestival.bsky.social

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So glad you are enjoying it!

The Science Behind Your Intuition & How Things Get Made Something You Should Know · Episode

Thanks to Something You Should Know #podcast for having me on the show to discuss the vital importance of #Manufacturing on all our lives.

#making #innovation #skills #tariffs #books #bookstagram

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Episode 2535: Tim Minshall on How We Manufacture Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing

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a dark-green-colored slide with the text "nonfiction science new releases Mayl, 2025" along the top. 19 book covers are featured: FOREST EUPHORIA by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian SEA OF GRASS by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty IS A RIVER ALIVE by Robert Macfarlane WHEN IT ALL BURNS by Jordan Thomas TRUTH DEMANDS by Abby Reyes PEATLANDS by Alys Fowler PROOF by Adam Kucharski APOCALYPSE by Lizzie Wade THEY POISONED THE WORLD by Moriah Blake OCEAN by David Attenborough THE SPIRIT OF THE RAINFOREST by Rosa Vásquez Espinoza CLIMATE RESILIENT GARDEN by Amanda Rasmussen HOW THINGS ARE MADE by Tim Minshall FORGOTTEN FORESTS by Jonathan Mullard THE GHOST LAB by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling SEX IS A SPECTRUM by Agustín Fuentes THE AI CON by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna OUT OF THIS WORLD AND INTO THE NEXT by Adriana Marais WISDOM OF THE HIVE by Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine

Nonfiction science new releases for May, 2025!

Which of these books are on your TBR?

At the top of by tbr for new releases this month: FOREST EUPHORIA, THE SPIRIT OF THE RAINFOREST, and THEY POISONED THE WORLD.

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So glad you enjoyed the discussion - hope you enjoy the books too!