BLOG POST: Caribbean Politics and the British Monarchy: Decolonisation, Republics and Reparations
In this post, Grace Carrington, Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas, discusses the research she conducted as part of the Visible Crown project.
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Join Marley Lix-Jones for a powerful talk on the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.
📅 3 Dec | ⏲️17:30 – 19:00 |💻 Online
🔗 shorturl.at/dkhWQ
Excited to be launching my new book 'Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty' (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) at LSE tomorrow at 6pm. Everyone welcome - registration details here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
On Thurs 20 Nov we host one of our alumni, Dr Grace Carrington, who will be speaking about her new book “Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean”.
Register here:
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#book #event #alumni #history #colonisation #caribbean #LSE
Cover and spine of The Crown’s Silence
Heading to the printers soon and out in both the US/UK in three months!
#booksky 📚
Available for pre-order now wherever books are sold: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)
Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
Tues 18 Nov, Prof Bradley Simpson joins us to talk about his soon to be released book 'The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order'.
Full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#event #history #book #UN #LSE
🆕 Democratic disaffection and resentment ✊
Using survey data 📊 from 6 European countries 🇪🇺 @mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler examine how #SGRD, already linked to radical political support, relates to general support for democracy 🏛️
#OA 📖
Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
📚 Seminar Alert!
Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History at UCL, introduces his forthcoming book: The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics and Health in the U.S. since the Rights Revolutions
📅 15 Oct 2025
⏰ 4pm
📍 51 Gordon Square
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Illustration of a 19th-century sugar plantation in Cuba with a steam locomotive in the foreground, red-roofed buildings with smoking chimneys, palm trees, crop fields, and a few people near train tracks, all framed by an ornate border.
📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series!
"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling
🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online
More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
So excited to dig into this book, which intersects with so many of the arguments about small-state self-determination and decolonization in my own new book. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/forg...
Thanks! How exciting!
My new book has arrived! I had some enthusiastic assistance opening the box... 'Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean' is available from @universitypress.cambridge.org here: www.cambridge.org/9781009560412
