Sathnam Sanghera @Sathnam
Bestselling author of histories #EmpireWorld #EmpireLand #StolenHistory, novel #MarriageMaterial, and memoir #TheBoyWithTheTopknot. Writer @thetimes, 🇬🇧 Sikh linktr.ee/empireworldsat… Wolverhampton Joined November 2008-
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Below the Line Comments in newspapers I recently wrote an article about what I learned from answering hate mail after co-authoring the @nationaltrust report on the colonial connections of its properties. In response there are over 1,300 comments below this article, much of it…
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…
@Sathnam I just watched your PBS documentary and want to say how much I enjoyed it. Superbly explained and showed up a certain type of person who still have rose tinted glasses of the savagery that this country dished out and unfortunately think this is acceptable. 🙏
Just watched @Sathnam Sanghera’s PBS documentary on Amritsar massacre. A well-known story - essentially retold. Especially when we see how the lies told about it have influenced subsequent generations. I understand now why apologies are important pbsamerica.co.uk/series/the-mas…
The British Army's Red River Expedition of 1870 is regarded as "among the most arduous in history”. It made the reputation of the "very model of a modern major general", who went on to become Commander in Chief, Garnet Wolseley. But did it become legendary only because of…
it's never going to be warm and sunny again is it
@Sathnam My partner happened to stumble across this today. It’s blown my mind! My wonderful amazing grandad. And just one day after I finished watching the brilliant documentary Defiance and was thinking about my grandads journey in all of this
Frank Field told me that the biggest change in the UK he had seen in his life-time was the return of genuine hunger in the UK
I am a great believer in letting nature have its way. But this fat wisteria in Sheen, south-west London, is truly extraordinary. Are the residents very thin? The gap is about 10 inches.
Iran wants to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for daring to criticise the regime & support the uprising. The kind of man who donates award money to flood victims. His only hope is if we make him a cause célèbre -spread the word, get politicians celebs involved before it’s too late.
Iran wants to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for daring to criticise the regime & support the uprising. The kind of man who donates award money to flood victims. His only hope is if we make him a cause célèbre -spread the word, get politicians celebs involved before it’s too late.
This year a dramatised walking tour in the City about the East India Company will feature at the JLF London. Tickets now on sale for 7, 15, 16 June. Book here. bit.ly/3WklbAR Pl RT @shrabanibasu_ @Sathnam @KatFeavers @DavidVeevers1 @VDoraiswami @AuthorsCC @TheEastIndia
And it’s out in to the world today for the paperback edition of How They Broke Britain. I’m so proud of this & so delighted by its success so far that anything else will be a bonus now… amzn.eu/d/jcM9A1g
Euston. London’s worst public space. It’s like living inside a gaming console.
You know another traditional European value along with environmental stewardship? Oppressive imperialism. And as the EU imposes ever tougher green trading requirements on former colonies it might do well to remember it. My Trade Secrets today: on.ft.com/3U8II4S
I’m thinking of starting a podcast where I interview the last three people who ‘viewed me on LinkedIn’ and I ask them one question: “What on earth was going through your mind?”
Just a couple of weeks now before #Empireworld is released in the USA on @public_affairs books. Pre-orders and shizzle here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sathnam…
Many congrats to @DavidOlusoga @Franwelch1 @KatFeavers @W2W_media @BBCTwo & 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.
What a read by @Sathnam 🤯. I’m by and large a fiction fan, but every now and again something comes along that I think is so important I need to share it with everyone- this is one of those times! Need to get this on the secondary curriculum 👩🏫. #read #book #reading #edutwitter
So, @Nigel_Farage - one of the founders & owners of @reformparty_uk - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @Ofcom. The leader of the party @TiceRichard & its only MP @LeeAndersonMP_ can…
So, @Nigel_Farage - one of the founders & owners of @reformparty_uk - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @Ofcom. The leader of the party @TiceRichard & its only MP @LeeAndersonMP_ can…
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@Sathnam I just watched your PBS documentary and want to say how much I enjoyed it. Superbly explained and showed up a certain type of person who still have rose tinted glasses of the savagery that this country dished out and unfortunately think this is acceptable. 🙏
Yesterday LDI was delighted to host @Sathnam author of Empireland & Empireworld who was interviewed by historian @HelenhCarr. They provided an informative discussion on the far-reaching impacts of British Empire. Funds were raised for @Rethink_.
🗣️ Sun, June 30th 10am - "RESPECTFULLY YOURS: DISCUSSING DIFFICULT HISTORY" Don't miss distinguished historian & teacher @Ms_PatelHistory's enlightening discussion at Chalke History Festival with BBC broadcaster @kavpuri and bestselling author @Sathnam. chalkefestival.com
Just watching The massacre that shook the Empire by the amazing @Sathnam Sanghera. Truly amazing and thought provoking.
Great to see approval for this @asifkhan_now @TheasterGates This was the project I was referring to tonight @Sathnam … an important companion to @SlaveryMuseum architectsjournal.co.uk/news/asif-khan…
@Sathnam My partner happened to stumble across this today. It’s blown my mind! My wonderful amazing grandad. And just one day after I finished watching the brilliant documentary Defiance and was thinking about my grandads journey in all of this
New episode for Patreons, in which Ian tells the origin story of a house, and how its idiosyncrasies still influence how the country is governed
🚪New bonus episode out🚪 Origin Story profiles its first building: Number 10 Downing Street. Join @IanDunt and @Dorianlynskey as they celebrate the paperback release of Ian's book How Westminster Works ... and Why It Doesn't. listen➡️listen.podmasters.uk/os240424downin…
@Reedyreading @Sathnam You should also read the follierupper Empireworld.
@Sathnam @Reedyreading You're very welcome. Thank you for two excellent books 👏
And it’s out in to the world today for the paperback edition of How They Broke Britain. I’m so proud of this & so delighted by its success so far that anything else will be a bonus now… amzn.eu/d/jcM9A1g
@Sathnam @Reedyreading She is a thanks and has just been awarded the year abroad slot at University of New South Wales! 🤯
@Reedyreading @Sathnam Excellent read, and the follow-up Empireworld is superb as well
This happened today .. appreciative and rather overwhelmed as I am, I do want to say that in broadcasting, every ‘individual’ contribution comes amid a team effort. So - thank you colleagues and friends @BBCr4today @BBCRadio4 And of course thank you @vlvuk
Huge congratulations to the amazing @MishalHusain @BBCr4today @BBCNews on winning the VLV Award for Best Individual Contributor to Audio #publicservicebroadcasting
What a read by @Sathnam 🤯. I’m by and large a fiction fan, but every now and again something comes along that I think is so important I need to share it with everyone- this is one of those times! Need to get this on the secondary curriculum 👩🏫. #read #book #reading #edutwitter
5. Malaya: turned effectively into an enormous rubber plantation with a partly imported, low cost labour force for British companies’ benefit. Australia & NZ: British settlers able to take up land as a result of government-backed dispossession of Aboriginal people & Maori, on…
Breaking news ha ha #AcrossTheSpiderVerse #SlowHorses theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…
@Sathnam It makes me want to cry when I think of these things which had meaning and significance for indigenous people being stolen by the British. It's the same for totem poles from Canada and so many other things.
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