Advolly Richmond OBE, FLS

On #WorldBookDay2024 happy Publication day to @sarahgalerie and me. What larks pip!! Thank you to all the people that worked so hard to bring this book to a #bookshop near you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved researching and writing it.🥳x

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@misanharriman Someone sent me an email a couple of weeks ago saying ’Dead Advolly’😭

I've never felt so seen!!! This is MEEEEE

We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-den…

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The @FieldMuseum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/transi… #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

I know it’s a long shot. I was in Morden Hall Park and found these photos on the floor. They’re old photos so tweeting in the hope someone may recognise those in the picture 📸 #RT

@artinsociety 👍🏽thank you

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Why are bedside tables generally so pokily small? Seen here in her bedroom at La Casa Azul in Mexico, Frida Kahlo bucks the trend and enjoys a generous space for her books and other nicknacks ~ even including a miniature double bed (photo: Gisèle Freund) improvisedlife.com/2022/12/12/big…

We’re hiring at the Fashion Museum Bath 👗 • Collections Researcher (1-year contract) • Textile Conservator & Costume Mounter (part-time) Apply and find out more: jobtrain.co.uk/bathnesjobs #MuseumJobs #FashionCareers #MuseumWork

Ethiopian Airlines is operating several special flights staffed entirely by women to celebrate International Women's Day 2026, and flights were operated to Cairo, Djibouti, Nairobi, Frankfurt, Accra, Mumbai, and few other destinations. Visuals from the Hosea Kuțako International Airport, where Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah welcomed an all-female crew of the Ethiopian Airlines on International Women’s Day. #internationalwomensday #womensday #aviation

I had a dream about Miriam, who had me write her autobiography long ago, as she would look today, a regal lady of 94. She was born today in 1932. I'm progressing nicely finishing a Miriam Makeba biography, the first. If you're an interested publisher out there, let me know!

“We are called to assist the earth, to heal her wounds, and in the process heal our own.” After becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate degree in East and Central Africa, Wangari Maathai started a movement that led to the planting of 50 million trees, a more democratic society and the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1976, Wangari Maathai became involved with the National Council of Women in Kenya. She suggested that they should start community-based tree planting to combat deforestation and desertification. In 1977, she developed her idea into a grassroots movement organisation called the Green Belt Movement (GBM). Maathai began the project by planting nine trees in her own yard – as it grew it became the largest tree planting project Africa had ever seen, encouraging women to plant trees in “green belts” around their towns and villages and to think ecologically. Her movement grew and spread to other African countries. With the GBM, Maathai hoped to promote sustainability as well as create jobs for women and empower them to gain economic and social power. Besides giving jobs to women and planting more than 50 million trees, the movement also became a symbol for a democratic struggle and a token of peace. According to widespread African tradition, trees are used as white flags during disputes. In Wangari Maathai’s own words: “The tree also became a symbol for peace and conflict resolution, especially during ethnic conflicts in Kenya when the Green Belt Movement used peace trees to reconcile disputing communities.” In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." She was the first African woman to receive the peace prize. Photo by Micheline Pelletier / Getty Images

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I just delivered my first double set of guest lectures as the inaugural speaker to first year Law students at The University of Nottingham 🥹 It was great to speak about how race and politics intersect in both practice and the Rule of Law 🕺🏾 Speaking life into the next gen >>>

Our third lecture is live! ✨ Today we’re tackling one of my TOP 2 fav historical figures: Elizabeth Woodville Not a day goes by without me thinking about Elizabeth and her incredibly fascinating (and equally devastating) life It is truly SUCH an honor to share her story 👸

@misanharriman Stunning 🥰

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Here is a selection of some extraordinary black men and women that I have photographed. Link is below: open.substack.com/pub/misanharri…

I have a pupil in my class (Year 6) who did this in about ten minutes. She's massively talented. Some ideas about how to help her move forward would be very much appreciated. Art isn't really my speciality.

Aww wow my fave local garden @KelmarshHall @GWmag #gardenersworld throwback

@HRHDukeThomas Was that a turkey...on the ❤️ button??🧐

Somewhere today in the USA, a family is about to carve into a turkey where they forgot to remove the bag of giblets.

I'm making the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity @VillageWater. A small charity that helps people in rural areas of Mozambique and Zambia get reliable access to clean water & sanitation. It takes a village to raise a child & we can all be part of a global village🩵