What does memory and its commemoration entail in the context of plurality of experiences? Fascinating discussion between students, alumni and academics and @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Matt Smith @cslbs.bsky.social and Benedetta Rossi @uclhistory.bsky.social

Michael's doing such interesting work. His 'Windrush Cricket' used cricket records and interviews to consider the Caribbean experience in Britain. New work on WW2.

During the Blitz, many people on the Home Front were still out playing and watching cricket. Michael Collins uses this context to analyze the extent to which WW2 was a “People’s War,” and to what degree conservative and imperial attitudes persisted.

🌍 Haiti’s ‘Double Debt’: from Commemoration to Reparation Join the 5th Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series from the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, honouring Elsa V. Goveia 💬 🎤 With Charles Forsdick (University of Cambridge). ⭐ Open to all – free tickets: shorturl.at/N6zjn

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Reminder that there’s still time to apply for our graduate conference on America 250 @uclhistory.bsky.social See below for details

New from @uclpress.bsky.social, authored by academics from UCL - including the former director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery - and the Open University. @uclhistory.bsky.social, @ioe.bsky.social, @openuniversity.bsky.social See also: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

📚 Congratulations to Dr Patrick Lantschner on co-editing The Cambridge Urban History of Europe, a landmark three-volume history of Europe’s urban past! Join us for the the international launch on 27 March 2026, 6:15pm ✨ 👉 Find our more and book your free place: shorturl.at/TXhEJ 👈

🏯 CCEAS Term Time Seminar with Tuan-Hwee Sng: When Peace Made the State: State Capacity in Song China How did the Song dynasty build a powerful, innovative state during a medieval economic boom and why did this model shift under the Qing? 🗓 11 Mar 2026 | 16:00–18:00 🔗 shorturl.at/MJXSa

🎬 Film Screening: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024) Join us for this prize-winning documentary exploring decolonization, the Cold War, and jazz as U.S. cultural diplomacy 🎷 🎤 Intro talk by Dr Iain Stewart 🗓 Wed 25 Feb, 6–9pm 📍 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre ⭐ All welcome 🔗 shorturl.at/ZdeYD

Wishing everyone who is celebrating a Happy Year of the Horse 🏮

Happy birthday to UCL, founded 200 years ago today! Join us to celebrate the bicentenary at our special roundtable with Matt Smith, Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social and Benedetta Rossi ✨

This term we have launched Books and Book History at UCL Special Collections, a new MA module collaboratively designed and delivered by us and @uclhistory.bsky.social. This thread is the first in the series of student-produced posts highlighting our book history adventures! Post: Sabrina Wiggins

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...

Europe Through Jokes and Laughter 9 March 4-6pm @uclhistory.bsky.social Communities of Laughter and Constructions of Cultural Belonging and Otherness in the Context of the European Expansion in the Early Modern Period. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

In Manchester next week? Come and hear Michael Collins (UCL) on his recent book on Windrush Cricket, Tuesday 27 January 2026, 4 p.m. @manchester.ac.uk Samuel Alexander Building A116 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Calling all UCL History alumni! 📣 Share your memories of student life at UCL History as part of our bicentenary photo competition! 📸 Up to 3 photos 🏆 Winner announced 5 March 2026 👉 Submit here: tinyurl.com/4bt9dm3n

As UCL marks its 2026 Bicentenary, we invite colleagues, students, alumni and history enthusiasts to a special roundtable on Commemorations, Memory, and the Many Pasts 💬 📅 05 March 2026 ⏰ 18:00–20:30 📍 All welcome 👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/3pDEC 👈

The Tassi Graduate Scholarship in Ancient Greek History at UCL 🏛️📚 A fully funded 3-year PhD opportunity (including home fees + annual stipend) starting October 2026, supported by a generous private donation. Deadline: 19 January 2026 👉 shorturl.at/3YcIf 👈

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP

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.