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Lisa Nandy to DCMS staff: “For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives. This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives. In recent years we’ve found multiple ways

🚨 Advert for an ESRC CASE Studentship to commence autumn 2024 - deadline 26 July. Informal queries welcome. Please RT! keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology: ‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful (Author: Michael Becker) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Meet the Marryats of #Wimbledon Their name is all over here Enriched by the slave trade in Grenada, Trinidad, Jamaica & St Lucia Awarded £millions 'compensation' from 'ownership' of 1,477 enslaved people Follow the money on today's #VillagePeople Walk assets.lloyds.com/media/159c7f61…

History PhD: AUSTRALIAN LEGACIES OF SLAVERY, open 1 Aug closes 31 Oct 2024. Join multi-disciplinary research project at the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia co-supervised with University of Melbourne researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects/100y0… Faculty of Arts UWA Research UWA Students

New podcast about my work on British labour history and how it intersects with the history of empire labourhub.org.uk/2024/07/16/col…

I'm really looking forward to this conversation in September at the Wilberforce Institute about THE DRIVER'S STORY, w/ Sasha Turner, Diana Paton, Heather Cateau, Matthew Smith, and Trevor Bernard. Register here: register.gotowebinar.com/register/18732…

Please share this amazing opportunity widely! 3 funded MA studentships in Black British Local History for the coming academic year based at Centre for Regional and Local History (HyPIR at Leicester University of Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities) in partnership with BCA More info: le.ac.uk/english-local-…

Only two weeks left to apply for the International Slavery MA scholarship, available to two Black British students. The Scholarship will: ➡️Cover the full cost of tuition fees ➡️Provide you with a £10,000 bursary to support you during your studies tinyurl.com/y2cenzac

This is a vital degree for nurturing Black British scholars in academia. Rather than undermining it Goldsmith’s should be supporting it as a meaningful intervention for racial equity in HE. Save Black British History - Sign the Petition! chng.it/vvW4mZnC8W via Change.org UK

.Royal Historical Society is deeply concerned by the scale and speed of further #History redundancies Goldsmiths, University of London. These cuts will remove student choice, wreak havoc on careers, and end specialist teaching and research. Our statement: bit.ly/3zO2nAF #twitterstorians 1/5 🧵⬇️

All Our Stories: Migration & the Making of Britain opens at the Migration Museum, Lewisham on 12 September. Be there or be square. migrationmuseum.org/event/all-our-…

Our UCL doctoral researcher Abdul Mohamud shares insights on studying historical textbooks and how teachers might use these to explore neglected aspects of British Empire history. Come read our latest blog post portraitemb.co.uk/why-research-h…

This is the story of George Freeman: enslaved in West Africa, 'liberated' in Sierra Leone, and taken to live in 1812 Berkshire. My new article for Slavery & Abolition uncovers his life, and the difficulty of researching 'imperceptible' lives in the archive doi.org/10.1080/014403…

This is my list of introductory books for non-academics who want to read about the British empire. Beyond this I'd have long secondary lists of books by top academics who write appealing clear prose like Kirsty Warren, Katie Donington Margot Finn and many others

The SCS has sent the following letter to management at Goldsmiths, University of London in support of Dr Kesewa John , who is at threat of redundancy. Please RT, and sign this petition, which was started by students of the MA Black British History change.org/p/save-black-b…

The racist riots/pogroms occurring across England over the last few days are terrifying though not surprising. Political discourse over immigration in Britain has long contained rhetoric & policy that is difficult to meaningfully distinguish from the programmes… (1/9)

I’m pleased to announce The Wake by Khaleb Brooks as the new Memorial to Victims of Transatlantic Slavery. Khaleb’s work is a stark reminder of the pain and suffering caused by transatlantic slavery and the role the UK and London played. standard.co.uk/news/london/lo…

The fabulous editors and contributors are proofing this wonderful collection this week. I'm so looking forward to it being out in the world for anyone interested in family history. One of the culminations of the important @InheritingtheFamily project.

Out now. Our anthology of commissioned creative writing & short historical commentaries from the #ColonialCountryside project about National Trust houses published by Peepal Tree Press. With a photo essay by Ingrid Pollard