My friend and colleague, Michael Collins's Windrush Cricket arrived in the post today. Christmas has come early! @uclhistory.bsky.social y.social @academic.oup.com

A monumental achievement, the medieval volume of which is co-edited by my wonderful colleague @uclhistory.bsky.social Patrick Lantschner. This looks like a super discussion.

Thinking of doing a History PhD at UCL? 📚🎓 There are several funded scholarship opportunities available 💼✨ Deadline: 9 January 2026 ⏳ Find out more via our PhD funding page: shorturl.at/dQzHW

Huge congratulations to Chloe L. Ireton (Associate Professor of the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800), whose monograph Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic has earned an Honorable Mention from the Sixteenth Century Society! 📚👏 shorturl.at/WZKQJ

Now open: The Tassi Graduate Scholarship in Ancient Greek History at UCL - a fully funded 3-year PhD opportunity starting Oct 2026 🏛️📚 Applications due 19 Jan 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join us for A Public Conversation with Dorothy Berry - archivist, writer, and author of The House Archives Built. 🗓 Dec 3 | ⏰ 5:30–7:30pm 📍 IAS Common Ground, Gower St Explore how archives shape history, identity, and Black cultural memory. 🔗 shorturl.at/5lUOO #UCL #DorothyBerry #BlackHistory

Congratulations to Berry Pillot de Chenecey (MA Public History) for winning the Pollard Prize 2025 by the Institute of Historical Research! 🏆 Her paper on children’s play during WWII has also earned her an offer of publication with Historical Research (Oxford University Press) 📖 shorturl.at/2qw2N

🌍 New from Anthropocene Vernaculars: @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social's 'Koutarcano: An Exercise in the Historic Present' explores Wendat history, language, and the Anthropocene at Crawford Lake. 🔗 shorturl.at/6UyCn

Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 November 2025, 5:30pm-7pm This session with Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Last night, Professor Jason Peacey delivered a truly magisterial Annual Holden Lecture at Senate House! ✨ His talk, Tickets and Trifles: Ephemeral Print and Restoration England, revealed how the most fleeting historical documents can offer the deepest insights into our past. 📜

🌍 Black History Month 2025: Ever wondered what Port Royal, Jamaica, was like through the eyes of the enslaved? Prof. Matthew J. Smith’s New World Royalists has the story 📜✨ 👉https://shorturl.at/MEDKk👈

Many congratulations to our very own Patrick Lantschner on the publication of The Cambridge Urban History of Europe! 🎉 Patrick co-edited the medieval and early modern volume of this three-volume project which has involved more than 120 authors from across the globe 📚✨ 👉https://shorturl.at/1XA6u👈

🎓 Holden Lecture 2025 📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England 🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm 📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history. 👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1

Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social

A great programme on the theme of ‘Women and Enterprise’ for the annual workshop of the EHS Women’s Committee @echistsoc.bsky.social @ehswomcom.bsky.social The workshop will be held in-person @uclhistory.bsky.social see registration details 👇

Still buzzing after the talk by @sushmajansari.bsky.social about her experience of community curation and the making of the exhibition ‘Ancient India, Living Traditions’ @britishmuseum.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social

Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 Nov 5:30–7pm at UCL This session with Dr Michael Collins (@uclhistory.bsky.social) will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

As covered in his book, 'Windrush Cricket', Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social reflects on the role of cricket clubs as safe spaces for the #WindrushGeneration. He also considers the impact of a 1982 game between the Met Police CC and Brixton West Indies CC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wonderfully timely: week 1 of @uclhistory.bsky.social 's core 1st-year Approaching History lecture in c. 10 days includes an interactive group research exercise using BBIH. Individual subscriptions available & discounted for @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org & @histassoc.bsky.social members. 1/2

@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social

🔊"For de Valera this is really a key part of being an independent country. He really believes this is essential for sovereignty." Prof Heather Jones @uclhistory.bsky.social examines Irish Taoiseach Éamon de Valera's WWII neutrality policy in 'Dev: Rise and Rule' @rte.ie. www.rte.ie/player/serie...

We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨ 🗓️ 14 Oct 2025 🕠 5:30–7:30 pm 📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN

Just ordered Michael Collins's new book on the history of Caribbean cricket in Britain, out now. global.oup.com/academic/pro... Michael's been doing fantastic work on cricket and the experience of ethnic minorities in Britain. See, for eg politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/black-c...

🏏 Windrush Cricket by Dr Michael Collins — OUT NOW from @oxunipress.bsky.social! Imperial culture, Caribbean migration & the remaking of postwar England. 📘 Get your copy: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 💸 Use code AUFLY30 for hardback at £21.00! #Cricket #Caribbean #Empire #decolonisation #Britain

🌍 Professor Pat Hudson’s lecture was a powerful reminder: modern finance has roots in slavery and colonialism. Building on Aaron Graham’s work, she showed how 18th-century profits shaped the world we live in now. 🎥Watch the full lecture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTk...

Our Fellow Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor at UCL History Department (@uclhistory.bsky.social), recently appeared in the BBC’s ‘You’re Dead to Me’ podcast series, in an episode entitled ‘India Between Empires: The Long 18th Century’: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India, joins the latest episode of You’re Dead to Me - the comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 🎧Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What is the significance of Indian textiles in global economic history? Co-organising a one-day workshop with Tirthankar Roy on the topic, to mark the launch of the new book ‘Textiles from Bengal’. Limited places available, book via link👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

🖼️ Could museums be more transparent? 🕵️‍♀️ Dr Eva Miller dives into the practices of collecting, curating, and labelling at the Ashmolean Museum. 🔍 A must-read for anyone curious about what happens behind the glass.

🚨 Fellowship Opportunities at UCL History 🚨 Are you an early career researcher ready to take the next step? ⭐ Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (2025–26) Deadline: 4pm, Mon 6 Oct 2025 ⭐British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Deadline: Mon 8 Sept 2025 👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/r1f9Q

📜 New World Royalists is a new digital humanities project from CSLBS, exploring 19th-century Port Royal Parish, Jamaica.⁠ ⁠ Through three creatively reconstructed stories, it sheds light on Black lives during and after British slavery.⁠ 👉 Step into the past right here: shorturl.at/hO3dH

Fantastic colleagues across many periods, regions & specialisms @uclhistory.bsky.social who could mentor you or your students. Do get in touch if you've questions.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Yağmur Heffron on being awarded a prestigious research grant by the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund for Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Oxford! This support will further archaeological fieldwork at the remarkable site of Uşaklı Höyük in Türkiye: shorturl.at/SygYV

📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊ 🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork. 🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July 📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term 🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV

Delighted beyond measure to be a part of the UCL India Summer School @ucl.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues, delivering the pathway ‘Globalisation and Technology’ through an Indian lens for @UCLHistory.bsky.social Thrilled that so many got excited by this new perspective on India and the world!

Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.

It was a great pleasure to see Pat Hudson deliver the Aaron Graham Lecture @uclhistory.bsky.social, supported by the @echistsoc.bsky.social, on how British investments in the Caribbean helped boost financial capacity in the British economy during the 18th century.

Excited to announce our project conference "Landscapes of Sanctity in the Medieval World", which will take place on 2nd & 3rd July, kindly hosted by @ucl-ias.bsky.social For more information and to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... @uclhistory.bsky.social

📚 Sacred Wars? Religion, Violence & Cold War Politics 🔥✝️ Join us for a seminar on the entanglement of religion, ideology, and violence in Cold War-era Mexico and Colombia. 📍 Hybrid 📅 12 June 2025 | 5:30–7:00PM 🎙️ Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (UCC & UCL History) Free & open to all: shorturl.at/WwPCk

Congrats to Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social who will be the lunchtime interview guest with Alison Mitchell on Test Match Special during Sunday's England-West Indies ODI to discuss Caribbean cricket past, present & future, and his 'Windrush Cricket' book global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Absolute pleasure to be back in Delhi, for the UCL India Summer School, for @uclhistory.bsky.social. I’m delivering a pathway entitled ‘Globalisation and Technology: India and the World, 1700-present.’ Bright students, deep discussions and a chance to share new research on India, in India!

Come join us in Bloomsbury (and/or at UCL East) for a 12-month MA in a broad range of fields within History, from Ancient through Medieval to Modern times. An international mix of excellent and friendly academics and students and ace resources too.

Come and study #history @uclhistory.bsky.social with amazing historians in the best square mile for historical research anywhere!

One of the joys of working @uclhistory.bsky.social is that you have access to the extraordinary @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social with one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese historic artefacts. I spotted some textiles which will, no doubt, form part of future investigations!

🎓 London calling! Study at a top-10 QS uni in the heart of Bloomsbury. Visa students: just over a month left to apply for a Master’s at UCL History! 🌍 Culture, Economy, Empires, Environment, Modern, Medieval, Ancient & Public History! Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/13nVr #UCL #History #Masters

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus John North, a distinguished scholar and beloved colleague. His legacy lives on through his work and all those he inspired ✨ Memorial details to follow: shorturl.at/utKSb

How do historians think through the use of objects for historical research? Great time talking with @uclhistory.bsky.social offer holders today about objects in history.

Displacement & the French Revolution 29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution. www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

UCL History invites you to this year's roundtable discussion on Histories of Work in a Global Perspective 🎤 📆: 13 May 2025, 17:30-20:00 📍: LG04, 26 Bedford Way (followed by reception) 🌟All welcome🌟 👉Book your free place here: shorturl.at/XVC7O