New job opening LancasterUniHistory @Lancaster - we are hiring a Lecturer in Environmental History (start Jan 2024)! See hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… for details.

Environmental Historian ECRs!!! Lancaster University is *hiring* for a full-time, forever post. Please spread the word far and wide 🌎 😊 🌎 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Great to see the Washington Post publicizing the project that I'm undertaking with British Library The Huntington UM Clements Library and Slave Voyages to digitize the South Sea Company's papers washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/…

Very happy to see my excellent PhD student Camilla de Koning and the brilliant Desiree Baptiste and Nick Radburn share some of their research with the The Washington Post. An interesting article on such an important topic by Karla Adam. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/…

Documents found by a British researcher and republished by The Washington Post show evidence of the monarchy’s intimate role in the transatlantic slave trade. wapo.st/3ESnaSW

We're holding a workshop! "Knowledge, Energy, and Industry in the Age of Revolution," at the University of Birmingham, 24 November 2023. More info here: hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/reframingrevol…

Here's a list of some of my favorite books on the trans-Atlantic slave trade that I produced for Shepherd.com 📚, including works by Katie Donington and Marcus Rediker: shepherd.com/best-books/how…

Listen to the new episode of the #Slaveryarchive Podcast (audio) on the book Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press) by Nick Radburn and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast (always free) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tra…

Thanks to Lancaster University Library my article on the links between the transatlantic slave trade and the British gunpowder industry is now open access. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S00076…

'Traders in Men' by Nick Radburn is eye-opening and thought-provoking; it is a brilliant synthesis of the available information in all its forms; and it is a firm reminder about the lengths the greedy will go to in the pursuit of wealth. Yale University Press London📚 gethistory.co.uk/reviews/book-r…

Exciting post-doc position at Lancaster University on the project: 'Towards a Digital Archive of the Atlantic Slave Trades: Unlocking the Archives of the South Sea Company’. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM931/res…

We're hiring a one-year post doc here LancasterUniHistory to work on the Arts and Humanities Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanities funded project Unlocking the South Sea Company’s Archives. I'm happy to answer any queries about the position, applications for which close on April 12th: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM931/res…

Pleased to have my work on the slave trade within pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue featured alongside the brilliant Joyce E. Chaplin 🌻 Eric Herschthal Tessa Murphy and Stuart M. McManus in the latest issue of the WMQ. Dr. Julia Gaffield was a wonderful editor!

The April 2024 WMQ has been released! Read Nicholas Radburn's new article, “Au-delà de la traversée: The Transatlantic Slave Trade within Prerevolutionary Saint Domingue." Nick Radburn: oieahc.wm.edu/publications/w…

These three amazing books are the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize. To know more about them, check the book prize page. We will post more details about each book in the next three weeks. The winner will be announced on October 5 slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchive…