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Author Chigozie Obioma shares his top picks from Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024.

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Impromptu book signing at Foyles Bookshop #OurIslandStories : Country Walks Through Colonial Britain. The book contains maps & it would amazing to see photos of yourselves doing any of the walks.

What Muslim extremists and neo-Nazis have in common.

Over the moon to share the news that Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for Historical Fiction!

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Last week we welcomed author, renowned human rights lawyer and UCL Law Professor Philippe Sands to IWM London to deliver the IWM Institute Annual Lecture 2024.

It is now available to watch in full on the IWM YouTube channel.

Watch now: bit.ly/49suO3j

My final day as director of Bristol Ideas, the last day of the company, but we go out on a high with an event by Jackie Kay, the publication of fine research on Bristol Broadsides, a new video interview on the Labour left, and our new book on our work. Thread below.

Celia Richardson Always disliked the National Trust because of its deferential attitude to landed property and the aristocracy. But in recent years it has made amends. I became a member last year to help stop the ridiculous, anti-historical attacks on its stance on slavery.

Academics and journalists in the UK, US and Europe are increasingly interested in attacks on the National Trust and other UK institutions. Sadly the attention is warranted, and needed. Charlie is Media Professor at the LSE.

In writers we trust?

Join Shakespeare&Company literary director and novelist Adam Biles with Hari Kunzru and Isabella Hammad at Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024 for a conversation on the role writers play in our cultural discourse.

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This podcast by Kavita Puri is so important and so good that I’m listening to it for a third time. I strongly recommend it.

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A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
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We are over the moon to share that Kate Grenville's brilliant tale of a Women fighting for her place in the world RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize #WomensPrize Baileys Audible UK 🎧

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🏛️ INTERVIEWER ANNOUNCEMENTS | Quite the cohort!

Here's who will join mary beard for her #EmperorOfRome events:

🔱 Richard Coles (Bury St. Edmunds)
🔱 Kieran Hodgson (Glasgow)
🔱 Sathnam Sanghera (London)
🔱 Greg Jenner (Warwick)
🔱 Alan Johnson (York)

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Many congrats to David Olusoga Francis Welch Kat Feavers Wall to Wall Media BBC Two & team on winning the VLV Award for Best TV News & Factual programme for Union following David as he traces the events, people & forces that transformed four separate nations into a single United Kingdom.