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🎉 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
Plotting for Freedom: New book by Chloe L. Ireton
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton, Associate Professor in the History of the Iberian World, 1500–1800, on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom in November 2026.
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🌞 Our Summer Newsletter is out now 🌞 Discover highlights from another fantastic year in UCL History, celebrating our students, staff, research, and events ✨ 💌 Don't forget to sign up to our UCL History News & Events mailing list to get quarterly updates straight to your inbox! shorturl.at/Mrt98
UCL History Summer Newsletter 2026
Greetings from 24 Gordon Square and welcome to the UCL History 2026 Summer Newsletter!
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How have trade, migration, religion, and empire shaped the western Indian Ocean? 🌍🌊 Dr Fabian Krautwald brought together scholars at the University of Dar es Salaam to explore these questions and strengthen research links between UDSM and UCL 💬 shorturl.at/QKeJv
Between Dhows and Dukas: Racial Capitalism, Religion, and Belonging
On 9–10 July 2026, Dr Fabian Krautwald convened a British Academy-funded workshop at the University of Dar es Salaam on East Africa's historic ties to the western Indian Ocean.
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We're delighted to see the AFRAB research project featured as an exemplary international research partnership in the ERC's special issue on Equity in Frontier Research!🌟👏 shorturl.at/7MpTU
Beyond good intentions and checklists
Research partnerships across borders raise difficult questions: who decides what knowledg
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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 agoI 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...
Coskun Tuncer (@uclhistory.bsky.social) discusses volume 2, framing it as an examination of the interactions between global forces and local institutions. He emphasises the methodological and geographic diversity presented, the framing of the research questions, along with some unresolved puzzles.
We had a great time discussing the contributions in the two volumes of the Special Issue on Global Economic History. Many thanks to Coskun Tuncer @uclhistory.bsky.social and Emma Griffin @qmul.bsky.social for the stimulating discussions!
Industrial History Review@rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe start with the guest editor @alkaraman.bsky.social telling us how these Special Issues started back in 2023, how the two issues are divided and how exciting it has been to bring together such an excellent collection of contributions.
If you're in Dar es Salaam, please join us tomorrow and Friday at the University of Dar es Salaam for our workshop "Between Dhows and Dukas", featuring a keynote by Professor Salvatory Nyanto. With support by the @britishacademy.bsky.social, @uclhistory.bsky.social, and @unibayreuth.bsky.social !
We are delighted to announce the publication of The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants by our Lecturer in Environmental History, Dr Robert Suits! Congratulations to Robert on this important and timely contribution to American environmental and labour history 🌎 👉 shorturl.at/bYne9
Robert Suits Publishes The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants
The History Department is delighted to announce the publication of The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants by Dr Robert Suits, Lecturer in Environmental History.
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📸 Highlights from the AFRAB Project's research workshop, African Voices Against Slavery and the Slave Trade, at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana on 9–10 June, hosted by Professor Emmanuel Saboro and his team! 👉 Find out more about the project: shorturl.at/CFJAS
Attended a wonderful event hosted by Centre for transnational and global history by Professor Glenda Sluga (EUI), ‘From the Planetary to the Global, and Other Lost Histories of the Twentieth Century’ @uclhistory.bsky.social
Jaymin is coming to @uclhistory.bsky.social CCEAS on June 16th to give an exciting talk on Sinitic Law, Tributary Relations, and Interstate Jurisdiction: Qing Jurisdiction over Chosŏn and Lê Subjects in Eighteenth-Century Borderlands. Sign up via the website. The event is hybrid.
CCEAS Seminar: Jaymin Kim
Join the CCEAS Seminar with Jaymin Kim on Sinitic Law, Tributary Relations, and Interstate Jurisdiction: Qing Jurisdiction over Chosŏn and Lê Subjects in Eighteenth-Century Borderlands.
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Dr Sam Zeitlin will deliver the 2026 Quentin Skinner Lecture at the University of Cambridge on 19 June 2026!✨ Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate explores Bacon’s responses to the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Register here: shorturl.at/jX40S #FrancisBacon #CambridgeUniversity
Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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How does one do historical research using textiles as sources? What are its advantages and limitations? We had an insightful public discussion following student presentations @uclhistory.bsky.social
Cricket, migration, empire, and postwar Britain: join Guy Ortolano (NYU) and Michael Collins (UCL) for the 60-minute Zoom launch of Windrush Cricket on Wednesday 13 May 2026🏏 🕛 12pm New York 🕔 5pm London 🕤 9:30pm Delhi 👉 Free RSVP below 👈
TheNACBS@thenacbs.bsky.social · 3mo ago📢Online book event! Join us next week to hear more about Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England by Michael Collins. 📅May 13 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Alka Raman@alkaraman.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow do historians use textiles as sources? Come to our public event where 2nd year students present their research on the social, economic and technological significance of cloth-making in history using textiles as sources. Free but booking is essential 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Dr Montaz Marché and Dr Michael Collins (UCL) are the winners of the British Society for Sports History’s 2026 Inclusive Communities History Prize for their project “Cricket is My Life: Caribbean Cricket in the Workplace 1940-present”. Read more: www.sportinhistory.com/articles/car... #history
Caribbean Cricket Project Wins BSSH Inclusive Communities History Prize
Dr Montaz Marché and Dr Michael Collins (UCL) are the winners of the British Society for Sports History’s 2026 Inclusive Communities History Prize.
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We’re delighted to invite you to the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture 2026🌟 This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Peter H. Wilson (University of Oxford), presenting: “Early Modern Europe’s Business of War” 📅 9 June 2026, 17:30 – 20:00 All welcome! Book here: shorturl.at/tnpiK
Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture 2026 - Professor Peter H Wilson
Join UCL History for the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Peter H. Wilson, presenting “Early Modern Europe’s Business of War.” All are welcome for this special talk.
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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...
What emerges in emergencies? A major @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social & #UCL200 series on 'Emergence | Emergencies' will ask some big questions in this critical series. UCL 1-12 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene #Anthropocene #Emergency @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-ias.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social
Have you taught LGBTQ+ topics in the secondary school history curriculum? 📚🏳️🌈 We’re making video resources to support teaching in this area and would love to hear from teachers willing to share their ideas and experience. Available on 28 or 29 May? Email: r.jennings@ucl.ac.uk 📩 shorturl.at/sbCxI
Supporting LGBT+ and Queer Histories in Secondary Schools
Information about the project.
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This year’s Gordon Childe Lecture will be delivered by Prof Laurent Olivier, Honorary Chief Curator, National Archaeological Museum, France. Join us for an evening of discussion and exploration followed by a drinks reception. Reserve your spot: tinyurl.com/GSCjke #UCL200 @ucl.ac.uk
VERY many #Reformazing #skystorians for the Reformation Studies Colloquium @uclhistory.bsky.social! Brilliant first keynote by @rosamundoates.bsky.social on Deafness in the Reformation
I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.
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For a decade, our Internship Programme has partnered with organisations across sectors to deliver real-world impact. Join us to celebrate this milestone and discover how you can collaborate with top-tier talent from one of the world’s leading universities. 🔗 Book your spot: tinyurl.com/soda10y
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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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
