Kieran Connell
Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY out now with Hurst: hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-…
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
- Reposted by Kieran Connell*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
- Reposted by Kieran ConnellAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- It takes one to know one I guess
- Reposted by Kieran ConnellFrom an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
- A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism
- I enjoyed speaking to @fieryparticle.bsky.social and @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN, and its relevance for the politics of today open.spotify.com/episode/59aX...
- It’s obvious to me that Reform UK is gunning for the Race Relations Act - the pioneering legislation that outlawed the incitement of racial hatred.
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- My review of Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories, THE ELEVENTH HOUR, is in today’s Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
- What’s up, babe? You’ve barely touched your Christmas Chip dinner
- Reposted by Kieran ConnellOngoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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- I had a lot of fun at the Wolfson History Prize ceremony last night, fuelled by a bottomless supply of free champagne. Congratulations to Hannah Durkin for a well deserved win!
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- Ahead of Tuesday’s shindig, here’s a video of me talking about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and what it means to be shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social prize. A big thank you to Gordon, the videographer who somehow made me sitting in my tiny office look cinematic 🎬
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- The far right flag-ification of England - as seen from the top deck of a bus near Bristol
- Reposted by Kieran Connell"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time." @kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kieran ConnellI wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
- Reposted by Kieran ConnellJimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
- Looking forward to talking MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN in Bath tomorrow evening. Still a few tickets available!
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- I talked to the History Extra pod about the ideas behind MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and how they relate to today’s grim politics Listen on Spotify oR wHerEvEr yOu gEt yOur PoDcAsTs open.spotify.com/episode/4Zey...
- This from John Crace on the Labour politician whom Reform are happy to call one of their own would be hilarious if events in the Commons this evening weren’t so totally, utterly abhorrent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Kieran ConnellNot everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
