Just published a new piece for The Lion & the Dragon, the magazine of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. It dives into some colourful episodes of officer misconduct during the Napoleonic Wars. If duelling, disorder, and general drama are your thing, have a look: eamonnokeeffe1812.com/2026/01/28/a...

The Library Company of Philadelphia will become part of Temple Libraries now.temple.edu/news/2025-12...

In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII. @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social brill.com/display/book...

Working on early 1700s Jamaica, what is the best and clearest phrase to use to succinctly refer to the 11-ish continental colonies of British America? Just "continental British America"? Any other ideas?

Some excellent merchants' marks at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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

The sad loss of Trevor Burnard, Karl Watson, Roy Augier, and Pedro Welch in the past few months has been a real blow to Caribbean history

The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon! brill.com/display/titl...

Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

Gravestone of Archibald Monteath, the author of one of the few surviving Caribbean slave testimonies. Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica.

‘If the painting was nothing more than a realistic portrait of an 18th-century Black scholar in his study, that would be extraordinary enough. It’s the earliest such image in Western art, the first self-presentation of a Black person as an intellectual.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...