I live and work in London.

I have done so for the past 8 years.

I have explored this city from North to South and East to West - and it's an amazing place to live. I've seen everything from suburbs in Enfield to parks in Merton to festivals in Clapham to theatre on the…

Matse ! ⚽ Borussia Dortmund FINALS ! ♥️

⚠️EMERGENCY RALLY AT 5PM TODAY⚠️

The Israeli attack on Rafah, where over a million displaced Palestinian people are sheltering, appears to have begun. Join us at 5PM today to say no to UK support of this horrific violation of international law.

#RafahUnderAttack

Congratulations Nick Hartley 🌻🥂🎈 Well deserved!

Today's THE day! Vote Mayor Jamie Driscoll !

📢 FIVE UK STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS AND COUNTING 📢

Today, students from Leeds (@leedspsg), Newcastle (@LoCNewcastle), Bristol (@Brisoccupy4pal) and Sheffield (@UoSPalSoc) have joined Warwick (@wwkstandspal) - demanding that our universities stop investing in Israel's genocide!

Heja BVB, Heja BVB, Heja Heja BVB! Super 1. Halbzeit Borussia Dortmund #ChampionsLeague Weiter so!

Say NO to Rwanda! Stand Up To Racism - North East

1. For anyone who fancies a free online course about how country houses are connected to the British Empire. By my Colonial Countryside project. Course link in the post below
youtube.com/watch?v=xb1yt8…

Final weekend of speaking to Byker residents ahead of Thursday’s election.

The in-tray piles up: damp & mould, litter, loneliness, antisocial behaviour, unfair differences in energy bills.

I’m ready to work with the council for the positive change we need!

#GetGreensElected

OK breathe. Quite a week Newcastle Oral History Unit & Collective. Fab work by our MA students in History at Newcastle who are turning their interviews into podcasts;
Siobhan Warrington collaborating with interactive webinar on bringing generations together for #ClimateActionwith HelpAge International & Restless Development 1/2

Hannah James Louwerse & Graham Smith presenting #oralhistory inaugural symposium in Baghdad; Silvie Fisch Newcastle United Foundation with Live Theatre production Fed Up!
Andy Clark out interviewing for Deindustrialisation and Ageing
You can read more about our work here blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history/

'If you are just indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt, without doubt.' Stephen Kapos

Live Youth Theatre's new production 'Fed Up' engages in social and historical justice issues of Food Poverty. For this, they used interviews from the Collective's Food Bank Histories and Mutual Aid Oral History projects.

Read Silvie Fisch's review here:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history/2…

Someone pinch me, Julia Hartley Brewer has said something sensible 😲

JHB, 'You would leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?'

Ben Habib, 'Absolutely'

JHB, 'That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse'

BH, 'Why is that uncivilised?'

JHB, 'Because we…

Places like Byker (discussed in this article) have multiple food banks, community groceries, food pantries etc. - and it's still not enough to meet the need. We need justice, not charity - where people have enough income to afford to buy their essentials.

The future of optimism – Fed Up at Live Theatre northeastbylines.co.uk/the-future-of-…