I am SO very excited about this one, having heard Chloe talk about its process and purpose. Simultaneously important stories to tell, and caring ethics to navigate. Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social , can’t wait to throw champagne over this! 🍾

UCL History@uclhistory.bsky.social · last wk.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom this November! 📚 A powerful new contribution to the history of slavery, resistance and the Atlantic world. Congratulations, Chloe! 👏 shorturl.at/TsSpH

Welcome to my new followers! Before I was put at risk of redundancy last month I was working on a chapter on 16th-18th-century finger rings. 💍 My sample is around 10,000 rings mentioned in 30,000 English wills from 1540-1790. 1/

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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UK: @waterstones.bsky.social bookshop is running a summer promotion for pre-orders on my book Plotting for Freedom, soon to be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social There is a 25% discount from today until 25 July with the code "SUMMER 26" #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/book/plottin...

A new special issue in P&P on medicine, race, and slavery edited by our Director!

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

1/ "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850

As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not

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A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

Thank you @tomaashby.bsky.social for visualizing this whole issue and for being such a wonderful editor and curator for this, and for shepherding us through to publication. I really enjoyed working with you ! Cc: @uclhistory.bsky.social

Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー@tomaashby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am delighted that an issue I edited on @chloeireton.bsky.social's "Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic" is now online at GIH. Reading this pioneering work and editing these thoughtful papers was valuable, revelatory, and provoking www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...

I am delighted that an issue I edited on @chloeireton.bsky.social's "Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic" is now online at GIH. Reading this pioneering work and editing these thoughtful papers was valuable, revelatory, and provoking www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

This was a dreamy opportunity to engage w/ incredible scholars Pedro Cardim, Adriana Chira, Nelson Fernando González Martínez, Karen Graubart, Lisa Kattenberg & Clifton Sorrell III & their rich & incisive responses. Thanks to @tomaashby.bsky.social for curating www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...

Special Issue on Chloe L. Ireton's <i>Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic</i>

Explore the article collection: Special Issue on Chloe L. Ireton's Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic. Published in Global Intellectual History.

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Featuring (inevitably?) Samuel V*ssall @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social , 'Insolence' @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social , Cartagena/Habsburg America @amandajsummers.bsky.social @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social

Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This coming Monday! Excited to be welcoming @roperlou.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social for a paper on “The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664” MON, 11 June, 17:30, in person or inline —sign up for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #earlymodern #skystorians

Join us tomorrow! We'll be in the @ihr.bsky.social from 17:30 to talk all about English Imperial Formation. Join us, either in Bloomsbury or on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyMdoern #Skystorians

The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664

Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Seminar

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Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern

THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern

Our RSVP is up for the public portion of Who Owns Black Data III: The Fight for Black Futures. If you're in New Orleans last week of May, come listen, learn and dialogue with Andrea Armstrong, Jo Banner from The Descendants Project, and Gia Hamilton. wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/amistad/

Standing room only tonight for @petermandler.bsky.social’s Neale Lecture at @uclhistory.bsky.social, a Tour de Force on the rise (& fall?) of History and its place in/as education.

A brilliant @uclhistory.bsky.social Neale lecture Thursday by Peter Mandler on '8 reasons to study history: the rise (and fall?) of history as an undergraduate degree'. This provocatively, was #7… A wonderful exploration of the discipline's development, with super use of @ucl.ac.uk's own archive.

The Centre for Central and East Asian Studies has been established at the @uclhistory.bsky.social. Welcome to join us for inaugural workshop, Qing China in Global Perspectives 5–6 June. We bring twenty scholars from across the globe, keynote by @camerondcampbell.blog www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

No os imagináis mi ilusión al recibir en Londres el nuevo libro de Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera! 📚 ❞𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀. 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂́𝘀 𝘆 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝘆 𝗔́𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗹𝗼 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜)❞ También OPEN ACCESS🔥👉🏼 bit.ly/44PFZ6L

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

Congratulations to Professor Matthew J. Smith and the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) on receiving a $575k grant to build a database of enslaved people in the British Caribbean! 👏 shorturl.at/41YNd

UCL History Secures $575k Grant for Caribbean Enslaved People Database

A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).

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TONIGHT! We can still sneak you in on a clandestine zoom link if you want! Or join us in Bloomsbury which is even more glorious in Springtime #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 5mo ago

MONDAY! Join us for an exciting paper about the Early Atlantic Slave trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality by Pablo Gómez! 23 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

MONDAY! Join us for an exciting paper about the Early Atlantic Slave trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality by Pablo Gómez! 23 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 7mo ago

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

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Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 7mo ago

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

We still can smuggle you in if you didn't sign up for the official zoom link on time! Or make your way to Bloomsbury to come and enjoy the paper in real life. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #HistMed #HistSTM

Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

Next Monday, March 9, 2026, join us for: "THE BLACK ATLANTIC AGAINST THE FRENCH EMPIRE". Jesus Ruiz (Vanderbilt) and Melanie Lamotte (Duke) at 17:00 at SOAS, University of London, Main Building (10 Thornhaugh St), Room C 277. hybrid.Sign up and find further details here: forms.gle/9JxWZsQwTNha...

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥 📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍 ⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️ 📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com

Next Monday, March 9, 2026, join us for:: "THE BLACK ATLANTIC AGAINST THE FRENCH EMPIRE". Jesus Ruiz (Vanderbilt) and Melanie Lamotte (Duke).

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥 📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍 ⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️ 📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com

NEXT SESSION COMING UP! Federica Gigante will talk about "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the #EarlyModern Mediterranean" MON 16 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom -- sign up for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 7mo ago

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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 👈

2026 UCL History Roundtable on ‘Commemorations, Memory, and the Many Pasts'

As UCL marks its 2026 Bicentenary, the History Department invites colleagues, students, alumni and history fans to a roundtable with UCL historians on Commemorations, Memory, and the Many Pasts.

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