Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying.
2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?”
🗃️#FRHistory
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Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU
The Festival of Black History is THIS Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Tickets are free but booking is essential! billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...
The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Front page of the TRHS article: 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T. Makonnen and International African Opinion', by Jack Bowman
Image of the print publication 'International African Opinion' in TRHS article 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T. Makonnen and International African Opinion'
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T Makonnen and International African Opinion', by Jack Bowman bit.ly/3Hu0bCI
How did interwar Pan-Africanism encompass different anti-colonial groups. How was print publishing used in campaigning? 1/2
We are thrilled to be supporting the Festival of Black History on Saturday 6th September 2025 at Goldsmiths, University of London. It is going to be an incredible event - Booking is FREE but essential
One month today the book I’ve been working on for the last seven years will be published by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social You can pre-order #Heiresses now through all good bookshops! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heir...
JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities!
A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September.
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"The camp was most known for its non-violent direct action, including women ‘embracing the base’, chaining themselves to and cutting the fence, staging ‘die-ins’ and organising blockades."
Maisie Jepson (@girlinthewrongera.bsky.social) on women's protest at Greenham.
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‘The first legal code put in place by the New Haven colony in 1639 recognised ‘man-stealing’ as a crime punishable by death. Yet the Puritan settlers found a way to reconcile themselves with slavery.’
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Happy 101st Birthday #JamesBaldwin!
We’re celebrating by announcing the launch of our new series: Thinking with James Baldwin
The series explores new approaches to Baldwin’s work, incl his fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, interviews & activism manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/think...
We are very excited to announce that the CFP for the 11th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Conference is now live!
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I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.
Jonathan Connolly discusses his research process at the National Archives in London that led to his book, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
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Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk
I'm very much looking forward to this, but also wondering why I thought a weekend would be sufficient time to recover from organising @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social conference
La Vaughn Belle stands at the lecturn giving her presentation
A slide displaying La Vaughn's sculpture "Sovereign" is displayed on the screen, depicting a woman emerging out of broken glass, her hands outstretched as if shooting an arrow. La Vaughn Belle stands at the lectern
And we finished on a fantastic high with our Bridget Jones Award presentation from La Vaughn Belle www.lavaughnbelle.com
Prof Pat Noxolo seated next to Prof Verene Shepherd who is dedicating her biography of Lucille Mathurin Mair
Professor Verene Shepherd at a lectern delivering her keynote lecture
Professor Verene Shepherd seated smiling next to Prof Gad Heuman
Table of delegates smiling at the camera seated ready for dinner
And what a dream to welcome Prof Verene Shepherd as the Pat Noxolo Keynote
I'm physically exhausted but what an amazing few days with incredible papers ❤️
Info poster for Indo-Caribbean Windrush An Oral History project. Includes a photograph of indentured labourers in Trinidad on the left and the HMT Empire Windrush on the right
The Indo-Caribbean Windrush Oral History Project documents the stories of Indo-Caribbeans who migrated to the UK during or after the Windrush era (1948–1971), and their descendants. It highlights voices often overlooked in Windrush commemorations.
Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press”
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📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
📣 The Society for Caribbean Studies is excited to introduce Christian Gurdin, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, who will be presenting at the 48th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Conference this July! He will be taking over our /social media accounts to talk about his research.
We're hosting Andel Andrew on our social media channels this week! Please check out his posts here and on Instagram to get a sneak peek at his research ahead of our conference in July! #SCS2025
Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...
Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.
Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social coming to Bristol in just a few weeks to discuss themes of repair, it's great to read this reflection on the curating of the Colston statue
I am so excited to see all of this come together - draft programme looks amazing and should be published this week!
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