Corinne Fowler

Birmingham's Midland Hotel hosted the Conservative MP Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 but, earlier than this, Labour's Oswald Mosley broke the Chamberlains' grip on power in 1929 before creating his new fascist party. By 1931, Birmingham people had violently driven him out of the city.

New-ish film I participated in about colonial Yorkshire. See thread for link and password to see the film @themerl.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers!
vimeo.com/755262849

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers!
vimeo.com/755262849

"We're not an island of strangers, we're an island of neighbours."
Will be interesting to see what happens in my city Birmingham (7 May) which, as local historians point out, has always been the front line of Fascism: Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.

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In Wuthering Heights, is Heathcliff an orphaned Indian prince? Is Heathcliff, the most enigmatic character in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, an orphaned Indian prince? Did the casting of the film miss that point? A professor of colonialism looks in between th...

More about the colonial history of #Heathcliff & the Colonial Brontes exhibition
indianexpress.com/article/book...

The Colonial Brontës | The Brontë Parsonage Museum Our 2026 exhibition examines the period of exploration, conquest and intercultural encounters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and shows the exten

Find out what the #Bronte children read and how it influenced their mayor novels, including #WutheringHeights
www.bronte.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Annual lecture | The Centre for Victorian Studies | University of Leicester Find out more about our latest annual public lecture, hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester

Next Wednesday!!
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The Colonial Brontës | The Brontë Parsonage Museum Our 2026 exhibition examines the period of exploration, conquest and intercultural encounters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and shows the exten

Find out what the #Bronte children read and how it influenced their mayor novels, including #WutheringHeights
www.bronte.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Race History Detectives Course – Seeking the Pioneers The Seeking the Pioneers project offers another exciting opportunity for young people & community members to become Race History Detectives

Here in Birmingham. Free for young people
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The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver Alan Lester Immediately before and after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a number of prominent British organisations assessed their entanglements with slavery and its afterlives. They incl…

The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

Our Land tickets with Robert Beckford, Hodge Hill Birmingham 7.30pm 18th March
www.tickettailor.com/events/hodge...

Our Land tickets with Robert Beckford, Hodge Hill Birmingham 7.30pm 18th March
www.tickettailor.com/events/hodge...

Episode one of our new Only in Birmingham podcast with Raj Pal with massive thanks to @naomifowler.bsky.social for editing and advising
pod.link/1852555730/e...

Episode one of our new Only in Birmingham podcast with Raj Pal with massive thanks to @naomifowler.bsky.social for editing and advising
pod.link/1852555730/e...

New exhibition for 2026: The Colonial Brontës | The Brontë Parsonage Museum The influence of British colonialism on the literary family and their work is examined in a new exhibition, The Colonial Brontës, which will run from 4 Feb

On the new #WutheringHeights film.

I've co-curated an exhibition (Bronte Parsonage Museum) showing what the Bronte children read & wrote (they invented their own colonies) & how Wuthering Heights was inspired by their colonial reading material.
www.bronte.org.uk/news/new-exh...

New exhibition for 2026: The Colonial Brontës | The Brontë Parsonage Museum The influence of British colonialism on the literary family and their work is examined in a new exhibition, The Colonial Brontës, which will run from 4 Feb

On the new #WutheringHeights film.

I've co-curated an exhibition (Bronte Parsonage Museum) showing what the Bronte children read & wrote (they invented their own colonies) & how Wuthering Heights was inspired by their colonial reading material.
www.bronte.org.uk/news/new-exh...

Plushy National Trust hedgehog by a bookshelf with a copy of ‘Our Island Stories’ by Corinne Fowler

This is related to parallel criticisms of historians who dare to point out how colonial income [via slavery] was a big contributor to country estates & the countryside as we find it today. @corinnefowler.bsky.social’s book is an excellent primer, based on factual research, yet GBN types cry ‘woke’.

Prince Harry, as he & Liz Hurley give evidence at Mail trial: “My every move, thought or feeling was being tracked and monitored just for the Mail to make money out of it” Prince Harry & Liz Hurley give evidence in opening week of trial against the Daily Mail, as the newspaper faces claims from Hurley, Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Sir Simon Hughes, Sadie Frost ...

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Really happy to be doing this event in Hodge Hill Birmingham with Robert Beckford - online and in person. Tickets below.

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Looking forward to doing this in the Easter (and to improved weather!)
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/every...

If Black contestants get a raw deal on The Traitors, that definitely is reality TV | Athena Kugblenu We shouldn’t be surprised when our experiences on competitive TV shows or the football field are consistent with everyday life, says comedian and writer Athena Kugblenu

If Black contestants get a raw deal on The Traitors, that definitely is reality TV | Athena Kugblenu

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Episode 2 of The Corruption Diaries podcast is out! Richard Allen discovers the UK’s underground music scene and starts exploring his love of music by attending free festivals all over England. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Season Two, weekly episodes

Great project done recently about enslavement and Scottish rural history
lamhan.scot/2025/05/06/l...

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Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time

Give this a listen. @corinnefowler.bsky.social is sublime. If you havent bought Our Island Stories I'd highly recommend
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Our Island Stories The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, ...

If he likes walks this by @corinnefowler.bsky.social might be of interest - an unusual kind of walk book
www.penguin.co.uk/books/448060...