See the full line-up of the weekend's events including speakers and workshops for WOW Marketplace, Big Ideas and Conversation Stations happening across the day programme.

factoryinternational.org/whats-on/wow-m…

Melanie Janine Brown MBE Jordan Sara Pascoe WOW - Women of the World Plus choose from a wide variety of events, discussions, performances and workshops, housed within a huge central marketplace including talks with Sophie Willian and Lizz Carr, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Rachel Dedman and Aja Barber and many more newly announced speakers.

The full programme for Manchester's first WOW Festival is here! 💥

Over two days and three evenings the world’s biggest festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people takes over Aviva Studios.

See the thread below to get a taste of the full line-up below 👇

Today is World Lupus Day.
Sending love to everyone affected by this condition.

#WorldLupusDay #Lupus #Lupus AwarenessMonth

I'm thrilled to share my next book - Black History for Every Day of the Year, created with my siblings, Kemi & Dr Yinka Olusoga. It includes histories of famous figures & unsung heroes from all areas of life and world culture.

Preorder your signed copy now: linktr.ee/blackhistoryev…

WALK 100K IN JUNE: do this challenge and help families affected by dementia. Sign up now and get a free t-shirt.

Abel and Taslima Ahmad, both the recipient of the Points of Light Award from the Queen of England, met yesterday. Taslima work impacts over 2,000 school children with textile classes and empowers women through workshops and skills training. #EmpowerWomen#TextileHeritage#EqualAqua

Wow, beautiful I was trying to capture a similar view and couldn't do it justice. This is amazing so evocative.

Happy bank holiday Monday, my garden looking great #nomowmay

Happy Birthday Prince Archie. Seems like only yesterday that your Mama blessed us with your presence and a rainbow did appear and your Papa was ecstatic and we felt honored🥳
❤️ #PrinceArchieTurns5 ❤️

#OnThisDay in 1882, Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was born in Old Trafford. The 2nd daughter of Emmeline & Richard, Sylvia was an artist, a political activist and writer. She designed the WSPU membership card, logo and banners. Find out more about her here: sylviapankhurst.com/about

This was so incredibly special that Disney would create this special Winnie-the-Pooh animation as a gift just for Harry and Meghan, on the birth of their first born, their son, Prince Archie Mountbatten-Windsor🥰
#PrinceArchieTurns5
#HappyBirthdayArchie 🎈🥳

May the Fourth be with the west side of the world (it's Revenge of the Fifth in the East)

Congratulations,London Mayor #LondonMayorElections

May the 4th be with you!

For #StarWarsDay here is the awesome work of Murat Palta who illustrates iconic movies in Ottoman miniature style.

‘Ottoman Star Wars’ is one of his most renowned works #MayThe4thBeWithYou

A thread on Murat Palta Ottoman miniature take on movies…

He’s had to overcome racism, blame, lies, death threats and a host of insults hurled at him.

But today has proved the majority of London still have faith in him to lead and represent our great city, and rightly so!

3 in a row

Our mayor, Sadiq Khan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#LondonMayoralElection

Sold for €640 at Bonham's, this #frockingfabulous #Dior dress and coat of c.1968 is a joy. Best of all? That dress has pockets! #fashionhistory

Words don’t even begin to describe the pain we have all felt over the last few days.

Daniel was one of the children in the youth group I lead, Jubilee Youth, part of Jubilee Church London. There’s no way to articulate the pain we are all feeling losing one of our own. Daniel is…