Paterson Joseph
@ignatius_sancho
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Debut novel: THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLES IGNATIUS SANCHO. Out 6 October. Available now: Hardback -
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⭐️A day to remember. Ignatius Sancho Café by Benugo in Greenwich Park opened by some geezer this morning. Thank you to everyone at The Royal Parks for making this happen. Delicious day in every way.⭐️
#royalparks
#Greenwich
#IgnatiusSancho
#BritishHistory
#BlackHistory
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I’d ask all these white folks denying that what PM AlexanderJohnson said about black kids with ‘watermelon smiles’ not being a racist comment, to ask their black friends what they think.
Sorry to break the news to you. Boris Johnson is racist.
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⭐️25 years of research - I had never seen the 1768 Gainsborough portrait of Sancho 'in the flesh'. Never thought art could hit me like this. Thanks, Thomas Gainsborough for this gift. Thanks
@royalacademy
#EntangledPasts
1768-Now is on ... Now.⭐️
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⭐️Delighted! Excited!Humbled! (Teeny bit bemused? Who me?) Utterly committed to the wonderful pastoral care at
@oxfordbrookes
⭐️
Oxford Brookes is pleased to announce actor Paterson Joseph as the University’s new Chancellor. We wish him every success in this role and look forward to working together
@ignatius_sancho
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For kids who are curious ... The black British history you may not know about.
#BlackLivesMatter
#black
#BlackHistory
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I wept when I first saw this. I weep again, redoubled by grief for a man I never met but who inspired love and respect in every Black Person who saw this movie. It wasn’t just a movie. It was a catalyst for Black Dignity and Black Creativity to stand up. Bless you. We owe you.
A beautiful reminder of a wonderful and talented human being
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⭐️The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho is out today. I became obsessed with telling Sancho's story from 1999. Born on a slave ship, orphaned at three - shipped to England to be the pet of three sisters, he later became a musician, actor, butler, writer, valet and ... 1/4
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@nora57474
@catastrophicook
@wydhobi
@Starbucks
And why aren’t
@Starbucks
responding to this vicious attack in their store? If you had said how wonderful the coffee was, they’d probably be swifter to acknowledge your tweet. Corporate Cowardice.
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⭐️Won't be looking so smug when me hand falls off at the end.⭐️
@dialoguepub
#IgnatiusSancho
#Paperback
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To all professionals in the film, television, theatre, entertainment & arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text & post a pic.
#SaveTheArtsUK
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You've made a person-of-50+ years very happy. Thank you. 🥳
We Have a Winner! Delighted to announce Paterson Joseph
@ignatius_sancho
and his exceptional debut novel, 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho', as the recipient of the 2023
#RSLChristopherBlandPrize
! Congratulations, Paterson! 🎉
@dialoguebooks
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I’m pretty sure one or two folks out there voted for and support Brexit. Please take two minutes to watch this clip. An honest response from an honest businesswoman.
#BrexitShambles
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⭐️This labour of love is finally out in paperback, today. Affordable (relatively) and very beautifully designed by
@micaelaalcaino
I couldn't be happier. Please enjoy and let me know your thoughts.⭐️
@dialoguepub
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In case you didn’t know ... Timeless gets a 2-hour send off. Not enough but way better than a dead end.
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This isn’t an easy 5 minute video. But, think of the lifetime of frustration that this man with cerebral palsy has lived with all his life. He articulates the cry of all disabled services and the people they’re trying to serve. “Ten years, Jacob… ten years…”
#DisabilityTwitter
"You're an Eton millionaire who doesn't care about disabled people."
Jacob Rees-Mogg is confronted by Dominic Hutchins who says that he had to prove he had cerebral palsy to claim benefits.
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A meta moment in my life. Filming in a bookshop ... where I found my book. Thank you Amanda
@TrumanBooks
in Farsley, Leeds.
#DialogueBooks
#LocalBookstores
#LoveBooks
#ShopLocal
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🍪Happy National Biscuit Day. Professor Biscuits. 🍪
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I was very aware that I wasn’t an immediate shoe-in. The character of the Marquis was not explicitly written as black or white, I believe, and in the 90s the profession was no way near as open to black performers as it is now. I was so proud to get this amazing role.
#Neverwhere
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This is truly the most terrifying face of racism. Ignorance, prejudice and arrogance, dressed up in articulate reasonableness. The hardest racism to fight. Give me a tatooed, shaved-headed thug, any day. I’ll take my chances.
A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stencilling a
#BLM
chalk message on my own front retaining wall. “Karen” lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here.
#blacklivesmatter
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The sad news is that we are going to have to cancel these performances. Theatre is being hit hard. As are all live performance venues and the artists and technicians that rely on them for their livelihood. Please support the live arts where you can. We’re going to need them.
Due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 we are sad to announce the cancellation of Sancho: An Act of Remembrance. All customers have been contacted. We have the intention for this production to be on our stage in the future & look forward to that day. Thank you for your support.
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@WeAreTheMU
The decades long attack on the ‘useless’ humanities continues. These are not simply Tory cuts but UK government policy since Thatcher. “Make stuff we can sell, drones. Don’t think about telling stories.” Then spend your money and time watching stories made by, er... oh, no-one.
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🌟 Kindness is everything. If I lose my ability to be kind, I lose my humanity. I’m going to try hard to be kind, first, even in the the face of those who have misplaced their humanity. Spent the last 20 minutes weeping hard at the kindness of a dear friend. JS? Thank you. 🌟
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To all professionals in the film, television, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. Copy the text and post a pic.
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However long this list is, I'm proud as punch to be on it. Thanks, Mr Scott?
@dialoguebooks
#BritishHistory
#BlackBritish
#TSDOCIS
#IgnatiusSancho
The longlist for this year's
@waltscottprize
includes novels by Paterson Joseph (
@ignatius_sancho
),
@seanlusk1
and
@MElizabethLowry
.
Read here:
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🌟A common misconception about refugees to the UK is expertly dismantled, here. I’d add, compassion dictates we should take in more people fleeing awful conditions.🌟
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⭐️ In an outstanding cast Katy Wix
@WixKaty
is the outerstandingest in Ep 1. ⭐️
#BBCGhosts
is ace!
@realmatbaynton
@lollyadefope
@JimHowick
@simonfarnaby
@benwillbond
@marthahowedouglas
@kiellsmithbynce
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🌟Love the smell of a fresh, new book in the morning. 😊 Especially one by the inimitable
@DavidHarewood
🌟
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My brothers-in-time.
@malcolmbarrett
@Naiqui_
#Timeless
@NBCTimeless
Yet to watch and even I cannot wait!!
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@WeAreTheMU
The idea that artists are ‘surplus’ to requirements flies in the face of financial logic, sure. But more basically, National imperatives. What nation can call itself a nation when it cannot express itself in any other form than how efficient it is at making money?
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🌟My new (first) novel THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLES IGNATIUS SANCHO is out on the 6th October '22. 20 yrs in the making and available for preorder now. 🌟
#IgnatiusSancho
#History
#Biography
#Novel
#BritishHistory
#BlackBritish
#BlackHistory
#BLM
🌟
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Might just miss her the most. My sister from another mister (and Mrs)
@sakinajaffrey
So many fun moments. Timeless Secret: Sakina’s the really naughty one.
#Timeless
@NBCTimeless
@TheTimelessRoom
@ShawnRyanTV
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So ... this is happening ...
Paterson Joseph to star in the Old Vic's A Christmas Carol | WhatsOnStage
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“You’ll never guess what I’ve found, Denise.” Who needs Homeland Security when these guys are hiding in plain sight?
#Timeless
@nbc
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@Google
Dear Folks at Google. Thank you for acknowledging Charles Ignatius Sancho today. Please can you use a doodle based on his actual portrait by Thomas Gainsborough? This image is another person entirely. Thank you.
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Adding black and brown people to our picture of Britain's past helped me feel rooted in the country of my birth. I hope it touches many and helps other Black Britons stand tall and know their people have been here a very long time. 3/4
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This moment - only an hour after we first met KD - is priceless to me. Love my sisters
@KarenDavid
&
@sakinajaffrey
Smashing it in an explosive Ep 8 this Sunday Night in an all-new episode of
#Timeless
at 10/9c.
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Thinking the arts are simply a ‘hobby’ is such a typically narrow, shallow attitude. Fine in a parent but terrible in a government.
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@wlondonwelcome
After a wonderful bookclub chat with the people of the amazing, life-changing refugee and asylum-seeker's charity West London Welcome, I was handed this knitted Sancho figure - He'll follow me everywhere. Does Sancho himself approve ...? Captions, please.
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BBC’s Vigil is the UK’s most watched new drama in three years - Media Centre.
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What warranted this deep stare from Connor? Find out tonight, during an all-new episode of
#Timeless
at 10/9c.
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🌟Thank you so much for giving me a chance to chat about my passion project. Alex & Jermaine made the time whizz by. 🌟
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I spent much of my youth hiding in libraries, devouring everything. So pleasing to see my novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho being honoured by the New York Public Libraries this weekend. 🙂 US Paperback out now ...
#NYPL
#Libraries
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My gratitude goes out to so many people who helped me write this novel. I owe you all an enormous THANK YOU. The baby bird has flown the nest - I hope the world is kind. ⭐️
#dialoguebooks
#IgnatiusSancho
#BHM
#BritishLiterature
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Full disclosure: I had no clue what I was doing. Freudian Suit.
@dialoguebooks
#LooksToBooks
#Fashion
#Nibbies
Authors take note: double the chances of appearing in
#LooksToBooks
, not to mention the marketing opportunity, by making your book your look! Textbook here from
@ignatius_sancho
and The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho:
#BritishBookAwards
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⭐️Paterson Joseph to become Oxford Brookes University chancellor - BBC News⭐️
@oxfordbrookes
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I truly want to find the funny in this. I can’t. Did they consult any black people before they purchased their preferred ‘shade’ of wrong?
Many “influencers” have been sharing photos of themselves wearing blackface as an act of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
If you genuinely care about a cause, the least you can do is educate yourself about it.
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Shame on you
@BBCBreaking
This is now getting ridiculous. Justice Secretary
@DominicRaab
was just allowed to jump from one UK News Show to another making completely unchallenged claims about the economy and wage rises.
If they won’t put the record straight let’s do it ourselves
How hard can this be!
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I’m in this a bit. Great cast of regulars. Cracking writing team.
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🌟Please retweet this forever. We need each other. Our species can’t survive without cooperation. Even Sesame Street tried to teach us that. We need to understand more fiercely than to be understood. Good luck this weekend. See y’all on Monday. Have a Kind Day. 🌟
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Grocer! This allowed him to vote. The first known person of African origin to do so. TSDOCIS imagines his life from an interior perspective. I hope the picture it paints helps all Britons to see more vividly the story of their nation's past, in living, breathing Technicolor. 2/4
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The British Education System in a nutshell from
@OwenJones84
That algorithm which benefited the privately educated and downgraded pupils from poorer backgrounds is a grotesque metaphor for a society systematically rigged in favour of the privileged and against those lacking advantages from the very day they are all born.
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Wakey-Wakey!! Black Girl coming thru. Make way - Make way!!
#BlackExcellence
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The delivery of, “Are you well?”, is brilliant.
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The Loneliest Chairs in Hollywood. Season 3, anyone? Save Our Chairs!!
#Timeless
@nbctimeless
@sakinajaffrey
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Shout out to Ep 6 writer Anslem Richardson
@anslemasylum
I salute you my cool-smart-talented, brother.
#Timeless
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Thanks to all who attended my event and all the friendly organisers at
@thebathfestival
. This was a wonderful night and a brilliant Q&A.
@dialoguebooks
#IgnatiusSancho
#History
#BritishHistory
#BlackHistory
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😊Try a day of being kind to yourself, first. It’s not as simple as it sounds. Watch that ‘inner critic’ as they often tell you ‘you can’t’. Treat yourself as you would a child in your care. Kindness: A secret superpower.🌟
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⭐️Woohoo!! 🥳If I wasn't in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in a pretty choppy sea I'd be dancing on the rooftops. If I tried that today the award would be posthumous! Thanks to all the kind souls who have championed The Secret Diaries. ⭐️
#HWACrowns23
@dialoguepub
@HenryHolt
📚👑The HWA Crown Awards winners are announced!
Congratulations to
@DamianDibben
(Gold Crown),
@CaroDavison1
(Non-fiction) and
@ignatius_sancho
(Debut)!
See more about their books, and why the judges loved them, in Historia:
#HWACrowns23
#awards
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Such a great Season. Looking forward to more adventures in Time in Season 3.
#WonderCon2018
#Timeless
@NBCTimeless
@TheTimelessRoom
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Christchurch Gardens in Victoria, London. It was a burial ground. Now, mostly buried under the buildings there. Sancho was buried here but there's no plaque ... yet. But I'm certain I have never seen a pavement slab like this. Any ideas, folks?
#London
#IgnatiusSancho
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⭐️Shameless huckstering. But effective!⭐️
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My life in a nutshell, today. *Pats self on back. 'You wrote a whole novel.' Feels bad for a second. Then does it again. Nearly retweets a complimentary tweet. Feels bad. Likes it, instead. More modest, isn't it? Na, I'm retweeting. To hell with it, this may never happen, again!*
"Not only is Paterson Joseph a celebrated actor, he is a wonderful writer and his skill in bringing Sancho’s voice to the fore is poignant, propulsive and passionate!",
@dialoguebooks
bags
@ignatius_sancho
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Treat of the Week! Got to hug it out with a writing hero of mine. The Freshly Married
@anslemasylum
Thanks for your support, Mr&Mrs R. 💐🥂
Guess who I ran into in London,
#clockbockers
😳?? The man, the myth, the legend
@ignatius_sancho
(aka Connor Mason) 😆 Checked out his incredible one-man show: Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at the
@WiltonMusicHall
👏🏿👏🏿✊🏿
#RenewTimelesss
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Hope you’re being kind to yourself first, today. The rest will take care of itself. 🤍🖤
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I’m in love with a teacher. 🍎
This is teacher
@BlibriJane
and part of her Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes exercise we all need her.
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Love it when folks remember that life is also absurd and that silliness is a form of freedom. 😂
Every time I hear Return of the Mack, I think of this video. 😂
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Last look at the bunker, just before my last scene of Season 2. Sad. But so proud of my department. Thanks guys. See you next year.
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@MattLanter
@malcolmbarrett
@sakinajaffrey
@JustDoumit
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🌟Highly recommended history of Black & Asian Shakespereans by Dr Jami Rogers. Yes, I was looking for my glorious triumphs!🌟
@publicradionerd
#Shakespeare
#BritishTheatre
#ArdenShakespeare
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Beyond excited for the world to see this.
@wbpictures
@WonkaMovie
“Every good thing in this world started with a dream.” Only in theaters December 15.
#WonkaMovie
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Thank you for this flattering portrait of one of my favourite rôles. S’long, Connor and your multicoloured - hidden - socks!
#Timeless
Hey
#Clockblockers
. Here's my painting of Connor Mason (
@ignatius_sancho
), finally finished. Better late than never, right?
#Timeless
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Boris Johnson today told
@GMB
viewers he is “honest”
Last week he shamelessly told Parliament he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” in response to the care homes scandal
IT WAS A BAREFACED LIE as this footage clearly shows👇
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I grew up with the - now clearly - foolish notion that a Prime Minister and a US President were always the best and brightest people of those nations. Smartest, wisest and most knowledgeable. Sorry eight-year-old me, that was a lie.
@BethRigby
Johnson clearly out of his league at PMQs
Waffling constantly as Starmer asks clear questions with evidence
- PPE, International Comparisons, Care Homes, Testing -
Populism vs Accountability
We need better representation in public office, Johnson is clearly unsuitable
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