Loved being on the #BetwixtTheSheets podcast! @k8lister.bsky.social and I had a great conversation about Victorian ideas of race and beauty. Do give it a listen... 👇 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @blackhistoryuk.bsky.social @pbhosu.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk

📚 BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS 📚 Really interesting selection of books available for review. Check them out and get in touch with Sam 👇

London friends! On May 13th I’m going to be in conversation with @johnmerrick.bsky.social about Liverpool, obsolescence and what it means to write history at our present moment at the amazing Pelican House in Bethnal Green. There will be a bar and everything. pelicanhouse.org/event/liverp...

Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era. Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined! www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...

Our latest @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean seminar 'The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica' w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social & Sabrina Bowen (chair) is now available to watch online. You can sign up for our next session on 29 April: shorturl.at/RweQd www.youtube.com/watch?v=H19r...

Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.

It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art. 'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art' Read full article here👇🏾 doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

JOB! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMC677/l...

PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...

We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.

Happy publication day to @hdiamond.bsky.social! JOSEPHINE BAKER'S SECRET WAR is out from Yale Books today