Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚
@anitasethi.bsky.social
writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
Inspiring evening at the #Orwell Prize party - congrats to all winners and shortlistees; & honoured to have been a Judge of the prize. ✍🏽✏️📚 Great to catch up with these brilliant historians, writers, journalists & book tubers! @orwellprize.bsky.social @georgeorwelll.bsky.social
I’ve written & presented another episode of BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day programme, which will be broadcast a week tomorrow, on the summer solstice. ☀️🦅 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the House Sparrow
Anita Sethi looks out for house sparrows on the busy city streets of Manchester.
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Hoping Ed Miliband gets a place in Andy Burnham’s cabinet. ✅Net Zero ✅crackdown on North Sea oil & gas ✅ protecting low-income households
What a day! I’m heading from Manchester to Westminster, London! No I’m not about to become Prime Minister, but I am speaking today at the British Academy Ideas Festival. Location: British Academy HQ. St James in City of Westminster. Time: 14:30
Huge congratulations to Andy Burnham on a stunning victory! Truly hoping he becomes Prime Minister! ❤️🙌🏽 #Makerfield
The beautiful view from Andy Burnham’s campaign HQ!
Looking forward to speaking at the British Academy Ideas Festival a week today, where I’ll be giving a writing workshop - come along! ✍🏽✏️
I’ve written & presented another episode of BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day programme, which will be broadcast a week tomorrow, on the summer solstice. ☀️🦅 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the House Sparrow
Anita Sethi looks out for house sparrows on the busy city streets of Manchester.
bbc.co.uk
About last night… Great to celebrate brilliant books at the annual @womensprize.bsky.social Summer Party! 📚🙌🏽
My next Tweet of the Day will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the summer solstice! 🦅
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. The new report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension. Continue reading...
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England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds
Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
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Feeling ancient…a USB stick is now an archeological artefact displayed in museums! I still remember floppy discs…
I've just finished reading @anitasethi.bsky.social's I Belong Here and could neither praise it more highly nor recommend it more strongly. Started reading it on a train in the Hope Valley - a place that has new and profound meaning for me now - and finished where I belong now in the Highlands.
In a country and a world where belonging is such a source of contention, this is essential reading. Whatever your views, whatever else you do - read it! Thank you Anita.
Delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! bsky.app/profile/roya...
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo agoWe are very pleased to welcome 386 historians who join the Society today - as Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members: bit.ly/4uMObPk Our Fellows and Members teach, research, write and promote #history, within the UK and internationally, in and beyond education #Skystorians
A fun morning in Broadcasting House recording a natural history programme for BBC Radio 4. 🎤📻🍃
My hometown neighbourhood of Old Trafford, #Manchester has gone from 🔴 to 🟢 #localelections
I’m delayed for the launch party of @natashawalter.bsky.social’s fab book FEMINISM FOR A WORLD ON FIRE 🔥 due to… a fire on the train line ahead. Truth is stranger than fiction, you couldn’t make it up etc…
This is a very helpful site ahead of tomorrow’s local elections: (Thanks @claire-james.bsky.social) whocanivotefor.co.uk
Who Can I Vote For?
We build digital tools to support everyone’s participation in UK democracy.
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Looking forward to reading KINGFISHER shortlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social. 📚 Thanks for my copy @saraband-books.bsky.social. #Booksky Great to see x3 #Northern publishers made the longlist! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 👍🏽
Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire Congratulations @natashawalter.bsky.social on the publication of your vital new book! Looking forward to celebrating it tomorrow! 👍🏽🍃 Great interview in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire
The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women – and, in her new book, she argues that it’s time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots
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The British Academy Ideas Festival programme is now live! Delighted to be giving a writing workshop on 20th June - themed around celebrating the summer solstice. 🍃 @britishacademy.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social
Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August! “Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging” Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...
Calling all young UK writers aged 11-14. Great prizes, and a chance to have your writing published. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2026 | London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop is proud to announce the fourth year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the…
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Thanks so much Anita! It was a lovely walk and event 😀
