📕New article out now in JBS. And..... this one comes with a soundtrack! 🎼🎤🎧🎹

“With this portrait we might say that the king is entering his "red era," to borrow some Swiftie vocabulary.” Read more from Stephanie Koscak on how the new portrait of Charles III fits into the broader history of royal portraiture. nacbs.org/post/the-king-…

📢New article out now in JBS! 📕One British Archive: Archives of Dissent: Complicating Anti-colonial Histories through the Watson Commission (Gold Coast/Ghana) by Jennifer Hart Open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📢New article out now in JBS! 📕The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825 by Tiraana Bains Open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Happy Canada Day! We’re pulling from our archives to recommend Joel Herbert’s 2019 “‘Sacred Trust’: Rethinking Late British Decolonization in Indigenous Canada” that explores the political activism of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Happy 4th to the USA! The former colonies were home to a number of populations, including emigrants from the highlands of Scotland. What was their role in the Revolutionary War? We’re revisiting Dziennik’s “Through an Imperial Prism..." to find out! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#OTD 9 July 1877, the first Wimbledon match occurred. Today we’re revisiting the JBS archives to learn more about the fashion of tennis with Thomas Turner’s 2016 “The Production and Consumption of Lawn-Tennis Shoes in Late-Victorian Britain”! doi.org/10.1017/jbr.20…

“A behind-the-scenes look at Treasures of Tutankhamun can tell us a great deal not just about how its success was judged at the time, but also about how empire is remembered (and forgotten).” Read more from Adam Hill at Broadsides. nacbs.org/post/tutankham…

#OTD 1729, Baltimore, MD was founded, named for Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. For more on this attempt at a British Catholic colony, see Antoinette Sutto’s 2009 “Lord Baltimore, the Society of Jesus, and Caroline Absolutism in Maryland, 1630–1645.” cambridge.org/core/journals/…

23 August 1940 was the first night of the Blitz, when German planes bombed the city of London. Amy Bell’s 2009 “Landscapes of Fear: Wartime London, 1939–1945” tells us more about what life was like in the capital during this time. cambridge.org/core/journals/…