Tim Burrows

I'm excited to share this edited extract from my forthcoming book, The Invention of Essex theguardian.com/environment/20…

TODAY!

Looking forward to talking Essex, myth, storytelling and, since we're in the Hopkins Zone, witches, with the brilliant @akblakemore tomorrow (Sat) at Manningtree Arts' Big Day Out, at 2pm. Free entry with an RSVP, details and rest of schedule here: manningtreearts.com/schedule/ma-bi…

@lordbonkers @CherylHoad Indeed! I'm at Saffron Walden's @hartsbooks tonight to help flog some...

@timburrows @CherylHoad Is it out in paperback yet?

I'm at @hartsbooks in Saffron Walden to talk about The Invention of Essex this evening, from 6.30. More info here: hartsbooks.co.uk/talks-and-even…

RT @guardian: I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar https://t.c…

americans are so serious man, why is nobody fucking creasing there’s a man stuck in a vase for fuck sakes

“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”

RT @IKoshiw: This was a really sad story to report. How the education of Ukrainian school children is being hurt by the war. Just under a…

Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.

A lovely surprise of a review of TIOE by a Harlow-born Essex boy living in Basque country: 'This is a great and unexpectedly moving read which I insistently recommend to anyone wishing to learn, or perhaps just think, more about Essex...'

@Uncle_Worry Ah! This is just lovely to read. Thanks so much for writing it - I'm so glad the Harlow stuff hit the spot :-)

My review of The Invention Of Essex by @timburrows - app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/503e4b…

@tania_nexust thanks so much for saying!

This is an absolutely glorious read from @timburrows, lots to unpack, and now in handy paperback!

@JHUNT0123 ta v much for saying James, it's lovely to hear that!

🚨PUBLICATION DAY! Same dreamy cover. Easier to bend🚨

@AllieHBNews Thanks Allie - I hope you enjoy it (I should have got you to factcheck it!)

@timburrows just bought your book- I know a lot about Essex so it’d better be good! 😉

Boomers had Top of the Pops, whereas Gen Z has

Great summation, this: 'Gaza has become the expression of a legitimacy crisis for an Anglo-American political class who preside over already fragile systems that deliver less and less to their populations, and whose main offering is that the alternative is worse.'

Q: Does @UKLabour have a policy on tackling this crisis in cultural funding?

In this photograph Chris Evans and Laurence Fox have very strong 'German couple who have just checked into an AirB&B in Twickenham because they are going to see Depeche Mode but are 'first looking to have some of the famous British fish and chips!'' energy.