Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 157 )

• Black History Month & Standing Proudly

  

  Black History Month’s theme in the UK is Standing Firm in Power and Pride Paulette Hamilton, Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington writes: This year’s theme … is... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2025 BOOKS

• Red Line for Gaza: Why Does the UK Government Still Sell Arms to Israel?

  

  On Saturday 6 September a couple of friends and I marched in support of Red Line for Gaza. The march was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (not to... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2025 BOOKS

• Samara Joy

  

  In one of the first Proms of this 2025 London Season I heard Samara Joy. I’d never heard her before but she truly is a joy. She’s only twenty-five, her vocal... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2025 BOOKS

• Daisy Reflections

  

  Sometimes all I want to do is stand and stare … at African Daisies in my garden at African Daisies and Indigo Lobelia and little white flowers in my garden At... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2025 BOOKS

• The Aristocrat and the Able Seaman Will Be Published in April 2026

  

  For several years I’ve done a talk about Lucy Noël Martha, Countess of Rothes, and Thomas William Jones, the Aristocrat and the Able Seaman who survived... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2025 BOOKS

• In Retrospect, Simon Armitage

  

  In Retrospect The world asks a great deal of the poppies, insists they carry the wounds of war and shoulder the weight of remembrance. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 BOOKS

• Hamlet on the Titanic

  

  This 15th April is the 113th anniversary of the night RMS Titanic sank. My great-grandmother, Noël Rothes, was, ‘One of the lucky ones’, as she wrote three... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2025 BOOKS

• Hidden Histories with Nova Reid

  

  Nova Reid, producer, author, truthseeker and all-round remarkable Black woman, has made a podcast with Audible about other remarkable and unsung Black women:... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2025 BOOKS

• A Valentine to Life: What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella

  

  Unlike forty-five million people worldwide, I’d never read a Sophie Kinsella novel until I picked up What Does It Feel Like? in my local bookshop a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2025 BOOKS

• Our View of the World is Distorted – So Our Worldview is Distorted

  

  A big thank you to Black History Studies and Mark Simpson, Director of Operations, for the title of this piece and for his insight into the ways different... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2025 BOOKS

• In the Bleak Midwinter: Rosetti & Holst

  

  In the Bleak Midwinter – words by Christina Rossetti and music by Gustav Holst (it has to be Holst for me) – is my favourite Christmas carol. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 BOOKS

• A Blessing for Our Times

  

  Jan Richardson wrote this Blessing for her blog The Advent Door in 2014. It’s included in her book Circle of Grace published in 2015. Elsewhere Richardson... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2024 BOOKS

• Black History Month; Black History Studies and Nova Reid’s Student Confession

  

  October is Black History Month in the UK. But obviously Black History should be taught and celebrated every day of every year in history lessons in our... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2024 BOOKS

• Tell Climate Change Stories

  

  On last Tuesday’s The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili, the guest scientist was Professor Peter Stott, a senior climate scientist at The Met Office’s Hadley... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2024 BOOKS

• ORIGIN: Ava DuVernay and Isabel Wilkerson on CASTE

  

  If you haven’t seen ORIGIN – Ava DuVernay’s film about Isabel Wilkerson’s life and why and how she came to write CASTE – I urge you to. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2024 BOOKS

• Language: How It Means Everything, and Nothing

  

  A couple of weeks ago some friends suggested we see ENGLISH, by Sanaz Toossi, at the Kiln Theatre. It’s finished its run now, but if you see it advertised... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2024 BOOKS

• If the Son of a Klu Klux Klan Leader Can Become an Anti-Racist, Everyone Can

  

  It takes 25 minutes to watch this video. It takes a lifetime to remain committed to anti-racism. But this person’s journey from white supremacy to anti-racism... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2024 BOOKS

• RMS Titanic: a Perfect Storm

  

  At this time of year I often post about RMS Titanic. Last year’s post remembered the Welsh Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, who captained Lifeboat Number 8 – the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2024 BOOKS

• Antiracism: Student Confessions Series, with Nova Reid

  

  I took part in Nova Reid’s series of Student Confession Interviews after graduating from her deeply affecting, life-changing course: Becoming Antiracist with... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2024 BOOKS

• Spring: When, Exactly, Does It Begin?

  

  I don’t know about you, but I feel Spring begins when it starts to feel a little warmer and when the are beginning to come out. But according to those who... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2024 BOOKS