Happy anniversary Em

Becoming Benjamin Lay World Premiere Discover Becoming Benjamin Lay, the radical Quaker who denounced slavery nearly 300 years ago, in this powerful 55-minute documentary.

Tony Buba and I need your help to spread the word about the world premiere of our new documentary film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, Saturday, April 11, 2026, 4:00 pm. We have a huge venue and need to fill it! Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. Tickets:

www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...

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New-ish film I participated in about colonial Yorkshire. See thread for link and password to see the film @themerl.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Big Fat Lie. We have 3 Mosques.

...and just like that, the prep for this year's HA Conference has begun! @colinmccormick.bsky.social and I will be presenting about our ongoing work on teaching the British Empire, inspired by @corinnefowler.bsky.social 's Our Island Stories 📖 first time attending HA Conference too - can't wait! 🌟

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

Epstein managed different networks. The UK media has rightly centred the powerful pedophile ring. It has maintained an uncanny silence about the global, anti-democratic, far right political network. Farage is up to his neck in it. If it weren’t for unprecedented double standards it’d be career over.

Good luck Em

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book:

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time

Give this a listen. @corinnefowler.bsky.social is sublime. If you havent bought Our Island Stories I'd highly recommend
open.spotify.com/episode/10Fj...

Seminal resource. Hope you're well Derek

History teachers please read this. Open acces! Congratulations to my friends @abdulmohamud.bsky.social et al. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Another wonderful free event coming up from the North East teacher branch of @histassoc.bsky.social featuring the brilliant @mrmayhew.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bur... #history #historyteacher

Pete doing Pete things. Genius this 🔥🔥 @richkhistory.bsky.social

Conservation Conversation - Prof. Corinne Fowler (Our Island Stories) YouTube video by Balsam Bashing

Great chat with film maker and environmentalist John Tween in Moseley Bog, a place associated with Tolkein & much loved by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxeo...

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Wow, very brave here mate😁. Think I'll blend in later 😃

I suspect the narrative will remain unchanged, judging by his 'island of strangers' comment (albeit he has apologised). I hope all the talk of the 1833 abolition isn't solely focused on evangelicals, with only token nods to African agency.

3.Yet the British courts let him off, citing lack of evidence and turning a blind eye to ongoing profiteering. This contradiction eg the moral rhetoric at home vs complicity abroad is central to understanding Britain’s real legacy on slavery.

2.Will use this in our next book update. Will drop in next to Bramley Moore the Liverpool mayor/merchant who was caught trading forBrazil well after abolition. In the mid 1840s, he was linked to ships supplying enslaved people and goods produced by slave labour, despite laws against the trade

1. Thanks for this, Arthur. Interesting. Clearly the govt wants applicants to believe that GB was a moral leader, saw the error of its ways =abolished slavery. Typical GB News narrative/interpretation.The Danes abolished the slave trade first, in 1792 years before Britain’s 1807 Act.

Great to know @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social! Thanks so much to you and to @colinmccormick.bsky.social also for your #SHP25 workshop also! Loved the approach you've developed to connect the local/national/global! So much to work with there!

I suspect your inference is correct Lee

Brilliant session by @dankeates.bsky.social . Can't wait to read it. @victoriacrooks.bsky.social

Thank you Ailsa. Hope you're well

Kicking-off day 2 of @1972shp.bsky.social Conference 2025 with @colinmccormick.bsky.social & @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social’s powerful presentation of local, national and international approaches to learning about Liverpool’s history of slave-trading and enslavement. #SHP25

Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can

One account describes a retreating soldier: "We sensed somehow that these men had seen hell...He half turned, & indicating the weary straggling figures before him, shrugged expressively, [and said]: 'General fucked up.....Back where they fucking well started.'"

That general was my great grandpa.

Listen to @oblaize.bsky.social he knows what he's talking about! Come and join Otis and Justice2History for their workshop on Decolonisation and the British Empire. Tickets available here SHP Summer Conference 2025 | Leeds Trinity University Online Store share.google/6BoMprddy3g1...