Author and Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University, Danny Dorling, speaking on stage at the Hay Festival in May 2025.

Inspirational stuff as ever from @dannydorling.bsky.social at the @hayfestival.bsky.social. Although the level of inequality in the #UK today is truly dismal, the message was not - keep calling it out. #HayFestival #SevenChildren

I’ve just started reading @dannydorling.bsky.social’s book.

Also good to note @katewomersley.com’s review of it here. The book has haunted her since reading it and I’m diving in knowing that the water may be deep and dark.

#BookSky
#ChildPoverty
#SocialInequality
#SevenChildren

Picture of the book

Rarely has a book moved or touched me more. Data is vital but it is story that moves the heart. @dannydorling.bsky.social
remarkable book #SevenChildren combines both to devastating effect to show the shocking reality facing children.

These 7 children will stay with me for a very long time

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling review – essential reading Inspired by the documentary Seven Up! and based on real data, this important book exposes the extent of inequality in the UK and what it means for our poorest children

I missed this review by @bykatewomersley.bsky.social recently. It sounds like a powerful read.

Now I need to go and find the book…

#SocialInequalities
#SevenChildren
#DannyDorling
#SDOH

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...

Seven Children by Danny Dorling | Book review | The TLS Danny Dorling’s new book is a stark analysis of poverty and low incomes in Britain today. The author rightly focuses on families with children and pictures the lives of seven children spanning the ran...

💭 #SevenChildren: #Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation is ‘a stark analysis of poverty and low incomes in Britain today.’

Read the @thetls.bsky.social review of Danny Dorling’s new book👇
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Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling review – essential reading Inspired by the documentary Seven Up! and based on real data, this important book exposes the extent of inequality in the UK and what it means for our poorest children

‘Of all the books I’ve read this year, #SevenChildren has stayed with me so intensely it feels like a form of haunting.’ @bykatewomersley.bsky.social review of Danny Dorling's analysis of #inequality in #SevenChildren in the Observer. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...