Beth Wilson
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Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University.
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'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.
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Some really excellent work forthcoming from CUP.
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‘I Felt All This’ | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Cecelia Cancellaro
about 1 month ago
Still one more month to apply for our new grant for under-represented early career scholars. All details below.
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Rachel Herrmann
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Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic arrived at the houses of Pretzel and Paz Purrmann this week, and their humans (Jessica Roney, and me) were pretty jazzed
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Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (
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www.branch.org.uk
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British American Nineteenth American Historians (BrANCH)
BrANCH, the association of British American Nineteen Century Historians, is a UK-based group of historians interested in US history across the long nineteenth-century.
https://www.branch.org.uk/
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'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.
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Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026!
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‘I Felt All This’
Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/i-felt-all-this/5431DE2FCB2E9053FEC1281C52281143
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I was lucky enough to work in the Department of American Studies at Nottingham for a year, and as Emily says, it is a dynamic and welcoming community providing students with a really important alternative to a history degree. Please sign this!
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Royal Historical Society
10 months ago
Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today it's Katherine Burns, ‘‘She died from grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements’, Slavery & Abolition'
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‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements
This article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification...
https://bit.ly/3HDuOVZ
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I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have signed a contract with CUP for my book, provisionally titled 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum South', which will hopefully be out next year!
about 1 year ago
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An exciting book delivery today!
about 1 year ago
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Aisha Djelid
over 1 year ago
It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇
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I'm discussing my work tomorrow at the RAI. Please join us!
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over 1 year ago
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Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors.
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Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, th...
https://www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-Emotions-in-the-Atlantic-World/Wilson-West/p/book/9781032815848?srsltid=AfmBOopWeB3-MVhG5xagVV3CMzx4df_YZjpNOwROEOIqxa5zTbdUGWMe
over 1 year ago
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Come and join us at the AHRS tomorrow at 4pm!
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over 1 year ago
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Rothermere American Institute
over 1 year ago
Join AHRS tonight to hear Harvey G Cohen (KCL) speak about his work titled: 'Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965.' 4pm at the RAI. Details here:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roll-a...
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Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roll-away-stone-african-american-gospel-music-1930-1965
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Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!
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