UCL History Secures $575k Grant for Caribbean Enslaved People Database A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.

www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from o...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture says a timber piece of the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, on display in its "Slavery and Freedom" exhibit, will soon be prepared for a trip back to its home museum in South Africa.
https://to.pbs.org/46R6r0M

What happens when scholars, librarians, and historians collaborate across borders to make Caribbean knowledge accessible?

Read Cross-Boundary Digital Collaboration as Scholarly and Institutional Experimentation to find out.

#cdsc #articlespotlight

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History.

See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

Arabia Felix Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a d...

Just one excellent bit from this brilliant book concerns the main character hanging out at Persepolis, one of the first Europeans to do so...

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Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’ London Museum Docklands partially concealed the portrait of Beeston Long, a former governor of the Bank of England, as part of its exhibition

Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’

www.thetimes.com/article/4d3e...

Thank you for this - very helpful as I think about the structure of the multigenerational story I’m writing now. Looking forward to meeting you at The Writing Well session this week.

Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Opinion | What It Means to Hold Someone’s Attention With a Story

“… Hearing of the many occupations of a single family may have allowed our grandchildren to feel more understanding of turmoil, and of difference, thanks to the great roiling mixture that has defined our country from the start.” #genealogy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Matisse painted this all the time.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver Alan Lester Immediately before and after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a number of prominent British organisations assessed their entanglements with slavery and its afterlives. They incl…

The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.

If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.

a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom ALT: a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom

Bad Bunny brought a sugar cane plantation to the Super Bowl.

Where’s the merch that could raise funds to support related efforts? I would definitely buy.

Fascinating.

Agree! Saturn through a telescope is by far the most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

To be fair, this is a fairly recent development (1814).

Richards looks like a nineteenth-century assassin. #UniversityChallenge

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Royal Silence, Archival Voice: A Review of Brooke N. Newman's "The Crown's Silence" Brooke N.

“A work of historical reclamation—one that refuses to let the British monarchy remain peripheral in the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is a long-overdue & unflinching history of the Crown’s complicity & active participation in the slave trade.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

"It is the paradox of dictatorships that they are enormously powerful and yet fear they can be undone by verse." Thank you @theobserveruk.bsky.social for writing about #MohamedTadjadit, the poet unjustly imprisoned in #Algeria for his work. We continue our call for his immediate release.

Protesters disrupt opening of major West African art museum in Nigeria Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on disp...

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display. https://to.pbs.org/43klMFo

‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review

"Fine-grained...[and] painstakingly researched." Read @alanlester.bsky.social's review of Roquinaldo Ferreira's Worlds of Unfreedom in @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

A glowing review of Miranda Kaufmann’s ‘Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery,’ a study that, among other things, considers “Britons’ (continuing) failure to appreciate how much of their affluence was (and still is) based on the suffering of distant others.”

”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.”
🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk

They’re all on Substack.