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An online Reading Room discussion hosted by Sophie Ibbotson at the Royal Society for Asian Affairs

📆 Tue 2 Dec 2025, 5:30pm
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan - The Royal Society for Asian Affairs
An online Reading Room discussion with author Joanna Lillis, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson. 2 December 2025, 17.30 GMT
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social

📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025, 5:00-7:00pm
📍 Masaryk Room, 16 Taviton Street, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London WC1H 0BW
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan by Joanna Lillis
A SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar with journalist and author Joanna Lillis
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Book talk moderated by Alexander Morrison

📆 Tue 25 Nov 2025, 5:00-6:30pm
📍 Lecture Room 4, New College, University of Oxford, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3BN
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Book talk with Ibrat Safo, co-hosted by Pushkin House and the Great Britain-Russia Society

📆 Tue 18 Nov 2025, 7:00-8:30pm
📍 Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan. A Conversation with Joanna Lillis and Ibrat Safo
Talk: Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan. A Conversation with Joanna Lillis and Ibrat Safo
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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At #CliftonLitFest in conversation with @peterleonard1.bsky.social

📆 Sat 15 Nov 2025, 3:00-4:00pm
📍The Clifton Club, 22 The Mall, Bristol BS8 4DS
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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“England’s Other Countrymen” by Onyeka Nubia is a forgotten history of diversity and cultural exchange that casts a new light on our own attitudes towards race.

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#BlackTudors
A banner showing the cover of “England’s Other Countrymen” and the quote: “One of the most moving aspects of the book is its presentation of ordinary black Tudor lives, in country villages as well as the metropolis. Nubia seeks to restore their place in the story and in the nation.” Quote by Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (Stratford-upon-Avon).
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Hakim Adi spans the centuries from the first Black Britons to the latest African migrants in his “Black British History”, covering everything from Africans in Tudor England to the movement for reparations, and the struggles against racism in between.

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#BlackBritishHistory
A banner showing the cover of “Black British History” and the quote: “An indispensable contribution to how we understand Britain.” Quote by Kehinde Andrews, author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In “Back to Black”, Kehinde Andrews explores the true roots of #BlackRadicalism and shows what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century.

Find out more about the book or listen to our podcast:

📙 bit.ly/4hrCPLi
🎧 Part 1: bit.ly/3LddIji, Part 2: bit.ly/3L7Wp3e
A banner showing the cover of “Back to Black” and the quote: “Andrews takes the concepts that underpin so much of our woolly, contemporary talk about blackness, structural racism, pan-Africanism and — most of all — radicalism, and does the hard, essential work of re-inserting meaning and critique into the debate. An unflinching and authentic contribution.” Quote by Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Find out more about @francescasobande.bsky.social and layla-roxanne hill’s work in archiving Black Scottish history on the Black Oot Here website

👉 blackinscotland.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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With “Black Oot Here”, @francescasobande.bsky.social and layla-roxanne hill offer a snapshot of what it mean to be #BlackScottish today.

Find out more about the book or listen to the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode with the authors:

📘 bit.ly/3RaLnJj
🎧 bit.ly/3XJnDhR

#BlackOotHere
A banner showing the cover of “Black Oot Here” and the quote: “A rigorously researched, kaleidoscopic chronicle of Black lives in Scotland […] rightly joins the canon of Black Feminist literature”. Quote by Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The contributions in “Blackness at the Intersection”, edited by ‪@kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social, Kehinde Andrews, and Annabel Wilson, employ Crenshaw's concept of #intersectionality to foreground #BlackBritish experiences. ‬‬‬

📕 bit.ly/3WW8Bqf
A banner showing the cover of “Blackness at the Intersection”. A practical, activist-oriented approach to how intersectionality can inform more effective social justice activism.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In “Babygirl, You've Got This!”, April-Louise Pennant delves into the experiences of #BlackGirls and #BlackWomen in the English #Education system.

Find out more about the book or listen to the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with the author:

📙 bit.ly/3WWrnOK
🎧 bit.ly/3Qg6eeM

#BbyGrlYGT
A banner showing the cover of “Babygirl, You’ve Got This”. Examining how Black girls and women experience education in England from primary school to university. Features unique qualitative data.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM