I'm really looking forward to delivering my meet the author workshop this half-term at free family festival Brockwell Bounce in conjunction with BookLove Booklove Multicultural Travelling Book Carnival

Cover reveal!
Here’s the front cover of my new book, The Story of Britain’s Black Nurses. I love it! 💕 Out everywhere soon.
Can be preordered now.
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Today we remember Mary Seacole who died #OTD in 1881. The RCN Library & Archive Services contributed to her statue at St Thomas' Hospital by buying her book 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands'. It was the first statue to a named black woman in the UK. #HistNursing

#OTD
On this day in 1881 #MarySeacole died in London aged 76 years.

If you’re writing for children or young adults & you’re ready to share your work with agents, keep me in mind. I’m looking for a fabulous new writer to work with. Open to anything a young person might love. Picture books, 5+, non-fiction, MG or YA. amheath.com

Great news! Listen to This Story! An exhibition about Children’s Books and Black Britain is opening next week at the Norwegian Study Centre in York! See listentothisstory.co.uk for details Listen to this story!

WW2 veteran Neil Flanigan MBE died aged 99, weeks shy of his 100th bday. He left Jamaica as a teen & was 1 of more than 10,000 from the West Indies who answered Britain’s call for help training as a skilled instrument technician in RAF Bomber Command. voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

Windrush passenger 37, widow Ivy Hoban, was travelling back to England from Barbados. She had previously lived in British Guiana. Her son Michael was Headmaster at Harrow School from 1971-1981. Ivy died in Hampshire in 1976 Harrow School Windrush Lives Voices of Windrush #Windrush

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Freelance Engagement Lead for Migration Museum's Heart of the Nation exhibition in Leeds
Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 8 October 2023
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Heart of the Nation exhibition will soon be moving from Leicester to Leeds

This month, we're recommending children's books celebrating & exploring Black History.

Find out more about The Story of Britain's Black Airmen, sign up for an event with Kandace Chimbiri writing as K.N Chimbiri, download resources and more: shop.scholastic.co.uk/black-history-…

I'm so excited to be on the panel with Daniella Belchner and Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy discussing the pros and cons of self-publishing vs traditional publishing.
Looking forward to sharing what I've learned over 15 years on my journey from self-publishing to landing a 5-book deal.

📚❤️EVERY month is a good month for these titles but we've gathered a few just in case you're particularly looking out for some new ones for October! They're mostly Black History focused + one about Black Joy! (credits 👇)❤️📚 #BlackHistoryMonth #DiverseReads #ShowroomBooklists

📣 Enter the Footnote x Counterpoints Prize for narrative non-fiction now to win a £15,000 award including a publishing deal with Footnote Press.
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Jamaican Wesley Cole was passenger 605 on the Windrush. He worked in coal mines in Scotland and the East Midlands where his talent was such that he became a mining advisor before retiring during the miners' strike. He died on this day in 2012 aged 87. #Windrush Windrush Lives

Windrush passenger 584 Alpheus Campbell married Edna Horsfall in Birmingham 70 years ago today. He had served with the RAF in the War and returned to England in 1948. He was quoted in The Gleaner as saying 'we are not refugees we are British citizens.' #Jamaica #RAF #windrush75

Windrush passenger number 168 Lucilda Harris was born in Portland, Jamaica on this day in 1916. She was coming to be reunited with her husband Parnell who left for England the day after their marriage in February 1947. #Jamaica #Windrush Voices of Windrush @75Windrush WAWI Project