#2 in our 12 Tips of Christmas! If Santa is bringing your child their first smartphone this Christmas, check out Dr Kathy Weston's popular webinar on using devices safely and healthily. Watch it here: members.tooledupeducation.com/resource/webin…

This is my son Max, we lost Max in a tragic car accident on the 11th December 2024. A life long Liverpool fan, can anyone please share and see if we can get 1 minutes applause at the next home game versus Man Utd in the 17th minute This Is Anfield The Anfield Wrap Paul James

Here’s to chapter 2025 and all the exciting things to come. Happy New Year! 💛 #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2025

Great evening celebrating the latest offering (and first key stage 2 story) from the legend that is Patrice Lawrence. People Like Stars is superb!

Something for you to discover in the half-term holidays! Did you know there were TWO powerful African civilisations along the Nile? The Second Kingdom of Kush (8th century BC/BCE – 4th century AD/CE) was huge! At its height it ruled an empire from the Blue Nile to the Levant

📢 I’ll be here, will you? Join me on Sat 8th March at Tony Fairweather’s Windrush Front Room Exhibition for an afternoon celebrating history, culture, and the stories that helped to shaped Britain. 🇬🇧✨ FREE EVENT but booking recommended. Details here: woolwich.works/events/windrus…

Born in Liverpool on 18th February 1918, Lilian Bader was a woman of resilience and determination. Becoming one of the first women, of any background, to work as an Instrument Repairer, ensuring that aircraft instruments were fault-free. africansinyorkshireproject.com/lilian-bader.h… Africans In Yorks

Super organised and passionate about supporting Black-British children's writers? Join us as a freelance Awards Administrator! Remote, part-time (8hrs/week) for 13 weeks and starts 31 March. Black-British applicants strongly encouraged. Email or DM us by 14 March! ✨

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Thank you for joining us at Windrush Front Room: Meet the Authors at Woolwich Works on Sat, 8th March to mark International Women's Day. Such a lively, fun audience! Juliet Coley BCAe Shani Akilah PromotingOurHeritage Tony Fairweather

You're invited to join the Florence Nightingale Museum and me for a special online talk about the life and legacy off Kofoworola Abeni Pratt—a true pioneer in nursing. Free. Online. More details here: florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-talk…

Hooray for Kandace Chimbiri writing as K.N Chimbiri’s account of the UK’s Black Nurses: letterboxlibrary.com/product-page/t… “Inspiring and educational for readers” “An informative & clear chronology of the history of nursing/medicine and the role Black nurses have played.” (Letterbox Lib reviewers)

Have you booked yet? I’m joining Florence Nightingale Museum 💙 online to talk about the incredible life and legacy of Kofoworola Abeni Pratt—one of the first Black nurses to join the NHS and a pioneer of nursing in post-independence Nigeria. Online. Free. Book here: …-nightingale-museum.arttickets.org.uk/florence-night…

In this clip — PART 1, from a recent chat with the brilliant Garfield from PromotingOurHeritage , I share a bit about who I am, how I got started (first as a self-published author), and why history, especially Black history for children is so important to me.

I’ll be in conversation with the superb Kandace Chimbiri writing as K.N Chimbiri at New Beacon Books on May 14th, talking about Beyond the Secret Garden (coauthored with Karen Sands-O'Connor) & the representation of Black people in British children’s books. Register: eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-s…

Publication Day! Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered I'm Going to Make a Friend. It's out today. Illustrated superbly by sandhya. Published by Little Tiger Books. Here's a lovely review by Ed Finch for Just Imagine: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book…

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You're invited to join us for a lively chat between Dr Darren Chetty and K.N. Chimbiri & book-signing at New Beacon Books! More details and to book your free place, click here: lnkd.in/eQMCuh-8

If you’re looking for ways to bring the story of Windrush into the classroom, there’s a free downloadable teachers' resource available—link here kandacechimbiri.com/wp-content/upl… Thank you for helping to keep this history alive and reaching new generations.