As Black History Month draws to a close, we're celebrating the theme, Reclaiming Narratives, by reflecting on a project from our 2024 festival, 'The Blacke Songs' Rommi Smith's poems told the stories of three Black Tudors, supported by research from Professor Jerry Brotton.

Check out this new online archive, organized like a museum with rooms showcasing food, women's lives, cities and landscapes! @zoecormack @mamouneltilib sslh.online/en/museum

Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South working on Science, Politics, and Justice, hosted by CRASSH and History and Philosophy of Science, to spend Lent Term 2026 at Cambridge. Deadline 24 February 2025.   crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fello…

Lost your sense of direction? Turn off your phone and you’ll soon reconnect theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This evening, I am sponsoring Runnymede Trust to launch their new report ‘Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK’ in Parliament. With the sharp rise in hate crimes, this report comes at a critical time.

@lucasvaleps Y5s rehearsing their re-written #shanty inspired by Lascar history & a Bengali riverboat song for their show THIS Sat Royal Museums Greenwich Cutty Sark #SeaShanty Fest #Greenwich 23/11! rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty Plus Gouri Choudhury London Sea Shanty Collective She Shanties HogEyeMen

2025: Conservative leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch jumps on the bandwagon to call for a national inquiry into child abuse 2023: Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman talks about the 7 year long national inquiry into child abuse and is then eviscerated by Labour's

📅Tomorrow (Tues 28 Jan) we announce the 2025 Theatres at Risk Register There are currently 39 theatres on the register, but check in with us tomorrow to find out what has changed... #TheatresAtRisk

Auditions for the Chineke! Junior Orchestra Residential Course 2025 are now open, and we warmly invite young musicians aged 11-22, especially from Black and/or global majority backgrounds, to apply for this transformative orchestral opportunity 👉 chineke.org/chineke-junior…

There are millions of us that feel this way, don’t forget that. We’re just not represented in our current electoral system

Stop this ignorant & racist misinformation being spread online. Yvette Cooper Metropolitan Police IPSO Zoe Gardner

Good opportunity for ECRs & freshly minted PhDs in Postcolonial & Global Literatures. 5-year fixed-term contract. Please share in your networks. Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD087/ass…

Do you need help with medieval Latin? I offer language teaching *and* research assistance, so if you just want a quick answer – e.g. a transcription, translation or manuscript identification – I can do that too. Details: latin.brunellus.com #medievalLatin #medievalTwitter

I apologised to the members of the Assisted Dying Bill committee tonight as I had to leave early. I didn’t want to but had to because my hearing aids need to recharge after 15 hours use and without them I cannot hear or take part in the committee. Hearing isn’t a choice for me.

After 41 years I have resigned as leader of Dudley Labour Group...and the Labour Party. I cannot be true to my principles and condemn the Tory cuts to the most vulnerable and not condemn the Government. People before Party...Principle before Power! Please Share

What are these nonsense numbers? Can we get a little numerical literacy here please? Tim Harford Office for National Statistics (ONS) Yvette Cooper

Read the full piece from TIME: time.com/7269604/el-sal…

41% of state schools now have no GCSE drama at all. Creativity has collapsed in eduction over the last decade, despite the last remaining teachers striving to keep arts accessible to all kids, not just lucky kids. This #WorldTheatreDay let’s keep the pressure on to fulfil the

NEW: My latest The i Paper column on why alarmist, exaggerated warnings from private schools about Labour’s VAT policy were given so much attention - and what it says about Britain. Read here👇