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Kieran Connell

Kieran Connell is a writer and an academic who has recently finished a Ph.D on Handsworth in the 1980s at the University of Birmingham

Kieran Connell is a writer who has just finished at Ph.D at the University of Birmingham. His Ph.D was a social and cultural history of the 1985 Handsworth riots. He currently lives in Birmingham and writes on issues such as race, society, culture and politics (and occasionally football). He blogs at http://cutandmix.blogspot.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @KConnellWriter.

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