The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀 @ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

Ahead of graduation, excited to hear from Virginia Davis about the history of the School of History @qmul.bsky.social. More than a century of excellence, and about 180 character sketches.

Yesterday I officially became Dr Annabelle Gilmore at the University of Birmingham 🎉 Thank you to all the people who helped me along the way, especially my supervisors!

Association of Caribbean Historians you owe me nothing. It's always an honour and a privilege to share my research with any audience but ACH was such a welcoming and affirming space. I had the best time and met some incredible scholars.

Thank you thank you, but that drink deserves all the praise!

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

I just learnt that our elder Sir Geoff Palmer has joined the ancestors. What a life he led and what a legacy. May his passage be gentle. www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

Touched down in T&T for the 2025 Association of Caribbean Historians conference, I’m buzzing! 🇹🇹

It would be great if commentators could stop providing free PR for the far-right as the next government. The threat is serious, but so much commentary feels like it is already platforming the worst of modern politics as inevitable while doing precious little to give space to meaningful alternatives.

Now that we are on the long-forseeable "day after" I feel like we can easily adopt the Sivanandan reading on events... "What Reform says today, the Tories say tomorrow, and Labour legislates on the day after"

(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

Yesterday, I interviewed former Army Correspondent Jay Roberts, who was with photographer Ron Haeberle at My Lai on March 16, 1968. Last month, I spent 10 days with Ron in My Lai. For someone originally trained as a 19th century historian, it's a remarkable experience to talk to key eyewitnesses.

Delighted Sabrina Bowen @chase-dtp.bsky.social & @deannalyncook.bsky.social will host our Caribbean Studies Seminar w/ Amy Cottrill, incoming Leeds Uni PhD student, presenting on resistance & women in Tortola. @mbarcia24.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social shorturl.at/S4yfc

QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance. Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot

It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure!

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

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...

Spent an amazing fortnight in St Kitts conducting archival research and interviews for my PhD thesis, a huge thank you to @qmul.ac.uk PGR Doctoral College fund for funding this trip and to staff in the school of History that supported the application 🫶🏾

Speaking tomorrow at the next @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean Seminar. ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. 🔗 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

There's still time to sign up for our next Caribbean Seminar w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. Chair: Sabrina Bowen ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

ADOLESCENCE on Netflix is extraordinary television. Filmmaking of the highest order. Pretty much every single creative decision is perfect. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

T-80 days, but roaring and ready to land! A huge thanks to some truly roarsome peeps for reading and sharing their kind words: @davidolusoga.bsky.social @hjm.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social Please do share. Info & preorder links @ www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...

They cannot be serious?! time.com/7265106/dere...

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

Register to join us on Wed, 26 Mar (6-8pm). This event will include a discussion on ESN schools through to SENDs and present day school exclusion practices. The aim will be to foster a constructive dialogue around strategies for future success. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/education-...

Additionally, Deanna, a former member of YHP, did an episode on the New Cross Fire on her podcast 'The History Hotline', which you can listen to by clicking on the link below #OTD #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿: open.spotify.com/episode/5OZE...

Really excited to be talking about podcasting for historians at this @ihr.bsky.social session. I’ve been podcasting since 2020 and without knowing much about it has been a really important medium to share my work & create a cool little historical community 🎟️: www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our 4th online session on the 4 March will focus on Podcasting for Historians with @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @deannalyncook.bsky.social, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, Samuel Hume and Izzy Conn. www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

Went to an absolutely fabulous conference on Black Power led by the wonderful Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kerry Pimblott. There are so many excellent PhDs and first books in the works from a new cohort of scholars in the field. It’s so exciting to see them flourishing and being so roarsome!

Hello 👋🏾 slowing getting into what’s happening this side. I’m a History PhD (@qmul.ac.uk) researching the migration of children from the Caribbean (🇰🇳🇯🇲) to Britain through the lens of the education system in both regions.

THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...