So delighted to have this arrive today. Such an important book for #historyteacher s wanting to do justice to teaching about Britain’s colonial past! Katie, Nicholas, @justice2history.bsky.social & @abdulmohamud.bsky.social do an amazing job of bringing research and pedagogy together.

Had a great evening at @ucl.ac.uk celebrating the launch of @uclpress.bsky.social's amazing "Teaching Slavery" resource wrote by @abdulmohamud.bsky.social, Robin Whitburn, Katie Donington & Nick Draper. Essential reading. #History IT'S A FREE PDF! uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Powerful historical and history-pedagogic knowledge on a vital topic from leading figures in both fields, open access fom UCL Press. #historyeducation @heirnet.bsky.social @coe.int @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social

History teachers please read this. Open acces! Congratulations to my friends @abdulmohamud.bsky.social et al. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Big thanks to the @1972shp.bsky.social family for a brilliant #SHP25 conference. Really enjoyed working with @oblaize.bsky.social and everyone who joined our session on Nigeria 1950-1980, Fela Kuti et al. We 'waka, waka, waka' till #SHP26!

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

Why the terms ‘balance’ and ‘legacies’ should both be avoided when teaching the British Empire: alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

"DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. Thread: Nottingham university slavery report. Times article below demonstrates why we have impoverished debates about UK slavery history. Like the coverage of the @nationaltrust report, this article actively discourages serious engagement with research findings.

‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers

🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8 Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.

Inspiring day at the New Perspectives Conference on African & Caribbean History in Britain. The young scholars from @YoungHistoriansProject and Hackney BSix College showcased excellent research & powerful personal stories. Grateful to all the other presenters + Hakim Adi & Lucy Capes for organising.

RIP Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87. He organised the successful Bristol bus boycott of 1963, now recognised as an important moment in British social history - by winning the argument against racial discrimination in practice, and then in law too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm working on the @1972shp.bsky.social submission for the Curriculum Review and would be grateful for some responses to a quick survey about the state of history in primary and secondary schools forms.office.com/e/DFyTm6ZEKv

What a fab (open access) article by Tom Scriven in @historywo.bsky.social : '"The Black Prince of Baker Street" and the Black Presence in Britain, 1837-1849'. Straight onto my required readings for 'Law's Empire' next term. Caribbean, continental European & British histories entwined.