Do listen to this masterful exposition of the links between trans-Atlantic slavery and Australian settler colonisation from the brilliant & meticulous Zoe Laidlaw (working with @janelydon.bsky.social) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia - ABC listen

In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...

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2/2 It is being blocked through every tactic imaginable by a right wing faction within the church with allies in politics & the press. Please disseminate this to counter their historical propaganda: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver

Alan Lester Key points: 1. Trans-Atlantic slavery was unlike other forms of slavery. People were commodified and racialised as ‘objects’ for capital accumulation. 2. The Church of England invested …

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@mininghistory.bsky.social any idea what’s happening here? A postcard showing a clash between “white men” + “coolies”. Context: sent by my great uncle Dai Hughes, Rhondda collier who mined in South Africa, once for gold, then for coal (at Glencoe Junction) in 1920s (I think).

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World Cup 2026: How miners from Cornwall brought football to Mexico

As Mexico prepares to become the first country to host or co-host the World Cup three times, BBC Sport looks at its Cornish footballing roots.

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Thanks for this article about my new book in Disability News Service. Disability a History of Resistance releases next Thursday in print, audio and ebook formats #disavilityhistory

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A groundbreaking book that uncovers the hidden histories of disabled people who fought against injustice shows disabled people are still “locked in bureaucratic battles” for support, just as they were in the 16th and 17th centuries. #DisabilityHistory www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-histo...

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!

thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

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‘The morning they arrested the pardo Candelario Villafaña, the city of Santiago was still in shock.’

The book has a cover and a publication date. 30 September 2026 from @livunipress.bsky.social

Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Industrial landscapes don’t get any better than the north Cornish coast #copper #tin

The actual Castle of Otranto. But for real gothic horror, head to the cathedral, which is festooned with the skulls of 800 townspeople who were executed when the Turks took the city in 1480.

What disgusting hypocrisy. @thespectator1828.bsky.social publishes malicious falsehoods to suggest my university and I personally indoctrinate students while its owner funds fellowships specifically to embed right wing indoctrination. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

More geographical confusion. Nigel Farage said Reform's new leader in Wales had "come back to the Valleys", so his children could grow up Welsh. Nation Cymru report he had moved from London to Bath in the west of England, about 50-60 miles from Islwyn, across the border nation.cymru/news/the-new...

The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales

Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...

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*Every* national flag is political symbolism. Take the US flag. Number of original states in the stripes, number of current states in the stars? Political symbolism. France? The Bourbon white with the colours of Paris? Political symbolism of the Revolution. Germany? The liberal colours? Same.

Jules Boykoff@julesboykoff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

‼️At the 2026 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture—the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in Haiti in 1804—violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism. What? apnews.com/article/hait...

Tomorrow in Brighton. Conservatives are relentlessly attacking Project Spire, the Church of England Reparative justice, scheme, in the press and Parliament. They claim the Church got its history wrong. I’ll set out what expert historians know and show the objections are political, not historical.

“Slavery’s Long Goodbye” (@livunipress.bsky.social). This is a story that also takes in #SierraLeone , #Swansea in South Wales, and #Argentina

Chris Evans@cevans3.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica

From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920” by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*

Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly

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2/2 ... by investing and profiting from the ‘trade’. He published the sermon, but it was censored. Godwyn disappeared, dying two years later. Research by Holly Brewer: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Really looking forward to tomorrow’s roundtable on Plantation Goods with @sethrockman.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...

Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica

Enjoyable debate at University of Exeter last night, narrowly winning the vote for ‘This house believes decolonisation ended Empire in name only’. In case of interest, my referenced notes for the proposition available here. Thanks for the invitation! alanlester.co.uk/blog/this-ho...

‘This House Believes Decolonisation Ended Empire in Name Only’

University of Exeter Debating Society 22nd Nov 2025 Argument for the Proposition Alan Lester The modern European empires were many things, but above all they were vehicles for the transfer of asset…

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@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

I've just submitted An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class to my publisher, Verso. My book explores how a British working class which was powerfully grounded in politics, the economy and culture has been unmade since the 1960s. An Injury to All is due for publication next year!

Tonight I finished a complete redraft of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. There's only formatting and a last proof read to go!

Attention #Scottish #History folks - a wonderful new publication from @sallytuckett.bsky.social! Transatlantic Threads published by @edinburghup.bsky.social

The Welsh university 'regulator' is 100%, 180 degrees wrong here. Hacking away at Welsh universities like this will *not* secure 'longer term sustainability': it will hasten their decline.

This was an upsetting meeting on so many levels. Spare a thought please for my colleagues and me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

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The James A. Rawley Prize of @historians.org in the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century - "Traders in Men" by Nicholas Radburn #slaveryhistory #atlantichistory

There is an incredible amount of misinformation out there about the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery that spans the political spectrum. One side castigates Lincoln and his proclamation while the other side argues that it changed nothing. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-emanci...

The Emancipation Proclamation Freed Thousands of Enslaved People on January 1, 1863.

On January 1, 1863 Boston’s abolitionist community gathered on a cold, cloudy, and gloomy day in anticipation of the news that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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