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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚

@anitasethi.bsky.social
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writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Inspiring evening at the #Orwell Prize party - congrats to all winners and shortlistees; & honoured to have been a Judge of the prize. ✍🏽✏️📚 Great to catch up with these brilliant historians, writers, journalists & book tubers! @orwellprize.bsky.social @georgeorwelll.bsky.social
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve written & presented another episode of BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day programme, which will be broadcast a week tomorrow, on the summer solstice. ☀️🦅 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the House Sparrow
Anita Sethi looks out for house sparrows on the busy city streets of Manchester.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hoping Ed Miliband gets a place in Andy Burnham’s cabinet. ✅Net Zero ✅crackdown on North Sea oil & gas ✅ protecting low-income households
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
What a day! I’m heading from Manchester to Westminster, London! No I’m not about to become Prime Minister, but I am speaking today at the British Academy Ideas Festival. Location: British Academy HQ. St James in City of Westminster. Time: 14:30
What a day! I’m heading from Manchester to Westminster, London!

I’m not about to become PM, but I am speaking today at the British Academy Ideas Festival.

Location: British Academy HQ. St James in City of Westminster.
Time: 14:30
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Huge congratulations to Andy Burnham on a stunning victory! Truly hoping he becomes Prime Minister! ❤️🙌🏽 #Makerfield
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The beautiful view from Andy Burnham’s campaign HQ! #Makerfield
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The beautiful view from Andy Burnham’s campaign HQ!
The view from Andy Burnham’s campaign HQ!
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Looking forward to speaking at the British Academy Ideas Festival a week today, where I’ll be giving a writing workshop - come along! ✍🏽✏️
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve written & presented another episode of BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day programme, which will be broadcast a week tomorrow, on the summer solstice. ☀️🦅 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the House Sparrow
Anita Sethi looks out for house sparrows on the busy city streets of Manchester.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Swanning around in Makerfield 🦢
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
About last night… Great to celebrate brilliant books at the annual @womensprize.bsky.social Summer Party! 📚🙌🏽
About last night…

Great to celebrate brilliant books at the annual @womensprize.bsky.social 
Summer Party!

📚🙌🏽
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My next Tweet of the Day will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the summer solstice! 🦅
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. The new report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension. Continue reading...
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds
Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Feeling ancient…a USB stick is now an archeological artefact displayed in museums! I still remember floppy discs…
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Keith Walker @kthwlkr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I've just finished reading @anitasethi.bsky.social's I Belong Here and could neither praise it more highly nor recommend it more strongly. Started reading it on a train in the Hope Valley - a place that has new and profound meaning for me now - and finished where I belong now in the Highlands.
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Keith Walker @kthwlkr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In a country and a world where belonging is such a source of contention, this is essential reading. Whatever your views, whatever else you do - read it! Thank you Anita.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! bsky.app/profile/roya...
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A fun morning in Broadcasting House recording a natural history programme for BBC Radio 4. 🎤📻🍃
A fun morning in Broadcasting House recording a natural history programme for BBC Radio 4. 🎤📻🍃
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth 🌍 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth
A celebration of Sir David's groundbreaking career broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
My hometown neighbourhood of Old Trafford, #Manchester has gone from 🔴 to 🟢 #localelections
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m delayed for the launch party of @natashawalter.bsky.social’s fab book FEMINISM FOR A WORLD ON FIRE 🔥 due to… a fire on the train line ahead. Truth is stranger than fiction, you couldn’t make it up etc…
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is a very helpful site ahead of tomorrow’s local elections: (Thanks @claire-james.bsky.social) whocanivotefor.co.uk
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Who Can I Vote For?
We build digital tools to support everyone’s participation in UK democracy.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Looking forward to reading KINGFISHER shortlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social. 📚 Thanks for my copy @saraband-books.bsky.social. #Booksky Great to see x3 #Northern publishers made the longlist! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 👍🏽
Looking forward to reading KINGFISHER shortlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social. 📚

Thanks for my copy @saraband-books.bsky.social.

Great to see x3 #Northern publishers made the longlist! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 👍🏽
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire Congratulations @natashawalter.bsky.social on the publication of your vital new book! Looking forward to celebrating it tomorrow! 👍🏽🍃 Great interview in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire
The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women – and, in her new book, she argues that it’s time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The British Academy Ideas Festival programme is now live! Delighted to be giving a writing workshop on 20th June - themed around celebrating the summer solstice. 🍃 @britishacademy.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August! “Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging” Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...
Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August!

“Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging”

Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social 

In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. 
https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-walking/
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Best ever passport checkpoint!
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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Calling all young UK writers aged 11-14. Great prizes, and a chance to have your writing published. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2026 | London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop is proud to announce the fourth year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the…
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thanks so much Anita! It was a lovely walk and event 😀
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Such happy news, congrats! 👍🏽🌳🍃 And remembering our lovely walk in the Happy Valley! 💚
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Blue sky, blossom and a bit of birdsong here in Manchester… Whoever said it’s grim up North?!
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hannah Spencer’s victory speech in full. Congrats to the first Northern Green MP 💚 #manchester #gortonanddenton #byelection @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzL...
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IN FULL: Hannah Spencer gives DEFIANT victory speech as she wins Gorton & Denton for the Greens
YouTube video by Manchester Evening News
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Good news day 💚 Well done #Manchester for voting out fascism, hatred and division! Everyone belongs here! @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Feeling hopeful that Reform will lose Gorton & Denton and Greens will win it! 💚 @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social #manchester #greatermanchester
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School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The @ihr.bsky.social’s Dr @anitasethi.bsky.social was on BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live last weekend. Tune in from 32 minutes to hear about her research on histories of access to the countryside and why “every single one of us, regardless of background, belongs in nature”. 🍃 bbc.in/46KA9nT
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
MMU deleted the page celebrating Mandelson’s appointment as Chancellor in 2016. 🤷‍♂️
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It’s only 20th January and I’ve just spotted a daffodil on my daily walk! Unseasonably early…
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Love a sunset train journey 🌅🌇
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app This is lovely 🦅@natashawalter.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app
Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world
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Louis Cook 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇳 🇰🇬 🇧🇯 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 @peedeelou.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Just started this book by @anitasethi.bsky.social Heard on the podcast Ramblings from BBC 4.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Sunny Christmas Eve, between places…
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicat...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It might look like we’re at bible class, but in fact we’re celebrating the 60th anniv of the #Pennineway by reading from our books to a packed audience as part of the Todmorden Book Festival. Great to share a platform with @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social & chair Pam Warhurst.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Excited to be speaking at Todmorden Book Festival in November celebrating 60 years of the Pennine Way. 👣🍃⛰️
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ovendenlaura.bsky.social @ovendenlaura.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Looking forward to this later today!
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
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