Two interesting nonfiction reads on the blog today: Malik al Nasir's "Searching for my Slave Roots" and Katie da Cunha Lewis' "The Writer's Room" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/b... #booksky 💙📚💡

This Litfest Festival Bookshop is now....open! Grab all the festival titles in one handy spot (and browse the rest of the bookshop for bargains whilst you're there! @mollieray.bsky.social @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @malikalnasir.bsky.social & more! Shop here: geni.us/LFAWBK

Written evidence to 'Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students'. Why has Chris Clark's The Sleepwalkers suddenly come to mind?

We can’t wait to welcome Malik Al Nasir to the bookshop to discuss his new book, Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge. Al Nasir will be in conversation with Rebecca Bailey, & you can sign up to join us here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/malik...

Unable to attend or tune into the livestream on Wednesday 1st October? You can still pre-order a Signed & Dedicated Edition of Searching for My Slave Roots and we’ll prepare it for collection or delivery! 📚: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978000846448...

📢NEW BOOK: Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge by History PhD student @malikalnasir.bsky.social. Using forgotten records dating back to 1763, Al Nasir exposes the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties.

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghcy...

I’m so looking forward to presenting my new book ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ at Lancaster Litfest @litfest.bsky.social

How @malikalnasir.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at Catz) is linked to one of the largest slave-owning families in Britain & people they enslaved is revealed in 'Searching For My Slave Roots' & a @theul.bsky.social digital collection: cam.ac.uk/stories/sandbach-tinne-collection

I just finished reading my advance copy of Malik Al Nasir's Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge (out next week with @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social). I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I you're in the UK, try to catch him on his book tour!

On Giles Brown's Let's Talk from 10.00CET - Malik Al Nasir on 'Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge – A New History of the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism', and Simon Ball on 'Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination'

What a wonderful evening at Miranda Kaufmann’s private pre-launch event for her seminal work on heiress’s who inherited slavery fortunes. It’s a gripping read and a long overdue insight into the white women involved in enslavement and their impact on Black lives. @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social

Finally - publication day for my new book “Searching for my Slave Roots” 28 Aug 2025. I did a presentation at Senate House @senatehouselib.bsky.social in London. Here’s a snippet talking about the barbarities of the British enslavers in the Carribean, boiling Africans alive in molten sugar solution.

Congratulations! On the difficulty of African scholars accessing archives, I was reminded of the end sections of this recent blog post, and which might be of interest www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-imp...

Looking forward to Dr Miranda Kaufmans book launch. Currently reading an advance copy of her superbly written and captivating collection of tales of some hitherto little known heiresses to enslavement fortunes. @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...

We can’t wait to welcome @malikalnasir.bsky.social to the bookshop on Wednesday 1st October! He’ll discuss his soon-to-be-published book, Searching for My Slave Roots, with Rebecca Bailey from Historic Environment Scotland. 🎟️ Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/malik...

I’m pleased to announce the first dates on my nationwide tour for my new book 📕’Searching for My Slave Roots’ (HarperCollins 28 Aug 2025) based upon the viral BBC article of the same name. Pre order now harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea... #MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #BookTour #BHM

Discount at Waterstones if you pre-order my new book ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ www.waterstones.com/books/review...

Great to see coverage of work by some of Manchester's most engaged students in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju... For the full essays by Destinie Reynolds, Beth Carson, Moleka Newman, Aimee Eggington and Aashe Singh: www.royalexchange.co.uk/visit-eat-dr...

Thanks to Liverpool Biennial for adding my memoir #LettersToGil to its reading list. www.biennial.com/liverpool-bi...

The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

So exciting to receive my bound proof of #Heiresses, out in September!

America really is going all out for the erasure of Black culture.

Techno-feudalism is the successor of western capitalism, but it’s worse. The analysis of Yanis Voroufakis is bang in point. @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Having a mentors like Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets was the difference between success and failure for me. Gil & Jalal have gone but their memories live on. I wish they’d lived to see me graduate from Cambridge this year. #BLM #MalikAlNasir @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @stcatharines.bsky.social

We're proud to support, through the Welland Family Fund, a workshop on 22 May about 'Digital Photography in Archives of Enslavement & Colonialism'. There's still time to register & hear from speakers incl Malik Al Nasir (a History PhD candidate at Catz): www.eventbrite.co.uk... @theul.bsky.social

The book “Searching for my Slave Roots” by Malik Al Nasir will be published on 28 Aug 2025. Available now to pre-order. harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea... #MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #HarperCollins #BLM

Andrew Watson, First Black British International Footballer ⚽️ #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

#Onthisday 8Mar1921, the 1st black international footballer, Andrew Watson, died. Grave pics before and after restoration, funded entirely by fans with no help from football authorities or history groups. Still maintained, at cost, by fans @beerhuntersta.bsky.social @gedboy58.bsky.social

Andrew Watson. A pioneer and a Scotch Professor. He was born in Guyana, the son of a Scottish sugar planter and a local woman named Hannah Rose. He became Scotland's first black association footballer, and one of the world's first. He captained Scotland at international level too. A legend.

The unveiling of a blue plaque to Andrew Watson, the first black international footballer at my old school Crossley Heath (formerly Crossley and Porter) It was a pleasure to meet Viv Anderson, England's first black international footballer.

Digital Photography in Archives of Enslavement and Colonialism A workshop organised by CDH, Cambridge University Library, Black Academia and the University of Guyana Library. 🗓️ Thursday 22 May 🕰️ 11:00 – 15:00 📍 Milstein Room @theul.bsky.social Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39747/

The terror is British colonialism in Guyana; the time is 1953, the year of the first elections under a provisional democratic constitution. Set in Georgetown with poetry from Martin Carter conveying a sense of intense political reform against poverty repression & silence. youtu.be/DYlrgJIqnz4?...

We are delighted to announce our spring seminar programme, “Archives of Natural History”. Details and registration links here: eepurl.com/iERd8U

Just in from Yale University Press - a little light reading on some heavy topics; Female enslavers, the only ever king of Haiti and ‘Traders in men’. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social #NicholasRadburn #YaleUniversityPress #MarleneLDaut #StephanieEJones-Rogers #Slavery #SlaveTraders #BLM

Our dear historian Mariana P. Candido will give a seminar on a chapter of her current book project at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies on June 6, 2025, more information here t.co/XpwGG0T1kV #slaveryarchive

On April 16, 1862, Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act, ending slavery in the capital & freeing 3,000+ people, months before the Emancipation Proclamation. It paid slaveholders for the slaves that were freed. 126 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

“The poet Malik Al Nasir has been on a journey to find his roots as a black Liverpudlian. It's a journey that has taken him back in time and halfway around the world, before returning him right back to the city where he began.” Out 29/8/25 #Slavery #Demerara #Liverpool www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/3...

So proud to have initiated this collaboration & knowledge exchange between Cambridge University Library & @camlibgroup.bsky.social @camdiglib.bsky.social University of Guyana, to facilitate digitisation of a Sandbach Tinne slavery collection linked to my research. www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39747/

Congratulations to Malik Al Nasir (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD) & fellow contributors & authors of @blpublishing.bsky.social's 'Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music' on winning Best Publication at Association for Cultural Enterprises Annual Conference: www.bl.uk/press/beyo...

Malik Al Nasir talking after my contribution. Love the fact that the St. Andrew's Pupils are still up on the screen. Mon the Andy!

On the lastest episode of @authorsofhistory.bsky.social I talk to the brilliant Dr Helen Fry about her career in writing. We talk about the journey she has been on and the facinting #books she has written. You can find it on all your #Podcast platforms. play.acast.com/s/67c5cc6ab4...

Yesterday, in Halifax, a plaque was unveiled to the memory of Andrew Watson, the first black international football player. His mother, Hannah Rose, was Guyanese, born into slavery. His father, Peter Miller Watson was born in Orkney, of a prominent landowning family. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 PhD studentships at UoL, one ringfenced for Black students: History of Race, Health and Medicine in any period between 1700 and the present. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #BlackAcademia #history #racism #health

#OnThisDay in 1881, Andrew Watson made history as the first black player to play international association football by captaining Scotland to a 6-1 victory against England at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. #sportshistory #football #footballhistory #blackhistory

TWENTY PhD scholarships for Black British Researchers available @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... Great response to the incredibly important 2019 Leading Routes research & example of reparative work outlined in Black Academia reports with @malikalnasir.bsky.social

Check out my memoir of my life with the poet & civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron, known as “The Godfather of Rap”. The audiobook has bonus material including an interveiw with Gil himself. #MalikAlNasir #LettersToGil #GilScottHeron #WilliamCollins #Memoir #BLM www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Gil-...

Recently published in paperback: The Global Challenge of Peace by Matt Perry, which scrutinizes 1919 as a complex threshold between war and peace contested globally from below. More here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....