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 !

What role did morality play in an immoral regime? To find out, join us on June 17 at the IHR African History Seminar with Adyeeri Kembabazi (Warwick), who will present her book on the politics of sex, reproduction, and fashion in Idi Amin's Uganda. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A State of Morality: Sexual, Reproductive, and Sartorial Politics in Idi Amin’s Uganda

African History Seminar

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The decline of the Roman Empire offers insights into the crisis of African states in the 19th century, which paved the way for colonial conquest. Join us on next Wednesday June 10 for a virtual IHR African History Seminar with Allegra Ayida (Yale) to find out how! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Decline and Fall of the Warri Kingdom, 1848–1900

African History Seminar

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An Anticolonial Development is out today with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I show how West Africans claimed the mind—not the body—as the site of economic productivity at independence, making education central to freedom and development. P.S. I haven’t seen a copy yet—apparently others have!

The decline of the Roman Empire offers insights into the crisis of African states in the 19th century, which paved the way for colonial conquest. Join us on next Wednesday June 10 for a virtual IHR African History Seminar with Allegra Ayida (Yale) to find out how! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Decline and Fall of the Warri Kingdom, 1848–1900

African History Seminar

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Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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For patients, biomedicine and African healing systems have long been complementary - join us Wednesday, May 20, at the IHR African History Seminar with Asa Mudzimu (Birmingham) to learn how views from southern Zimbabwe enrich the history of medicine! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Not-So Modern Clinic in Colonial Northwest Zimbabwe, 1965-1982

African History Seminar

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For patients, biomedicine and African healing systems have long been complementary - join us Wednesday, May 20, at the IHR African History Seminar with Asa Mudzimu (Birmingham) to learn how views from southern Zimbabwe enrich the history of medicine! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Not-So Modern Clinic in Colonial Northwest Zimbabwe, 1965-1982

African History Seminar

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Utopias do not emerge in a vacuum, but through transnational exchange. Join us next Wednesday, May 6, at the IHR African History Seminar with Stephanie Wanga (LSE) to learn what this looked like in socialist Zanzibar and East Germany during the 1960s! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Utopia Between Zanzibar and East Germany (1960-1990)

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If you're interested in the relationship between art and history after colonialism, please join us on May 14, 2026 at UCL for the launch of a small exhibit of contemporary Namibian art! Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

How can insights from African history inform current debates about commemoration of colonial violence and the Holocaust? Check out my new article in New German Critique to find out: doi.org/10.1215/0094... Thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for a great special issue on German Memory Politics!

The Comforts of Provincialism: The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany

This article analyzes some of the historical causes for contemporary disputes in Germany over the commensurability of colonial violence and the Holocaust, which have once again intensified after Hamas...

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Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

PhD Studentships at King's College London

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African history can enrich our understanding of Ottoman history, not just the other way around. Join us next Wednesday, February 4, for the IHR African History Seminar with Kerem Duymus (Leipzig University) to learn more! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Ottoman Empire Imagined from Africa: Visions of Tripolitan Elites for an Islamic African State under Ottoman Rule

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Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

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Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

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Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

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Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

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If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

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If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

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Today: Fabian Krautwald (UCL) will be speaking on “Fluid Remembrance: Oceanic Crossings and Colonial Memories in the Rise of African Nationalism” as part of our lecture series on transoceanic exchanges. 2-4pm, Hörsaalzentrum Hz 8 @goetheuni.bsky.social www.movingcultures.de/fabian-kraut...

There is only one week left to apply for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium 2026. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv

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

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

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The inaugural meeting of the new African History Seminar at London's Institute of Historical Research will take place on October 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Zeinab Badawi will talk about her fantastic book, An African History of Africa. You can register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Join us!

Recasting the Past: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of Africa

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📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025. • African History • Migration & Mobility History • Planetary History Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎓 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

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The @erc.europa.eu's Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdocs go live tomorrow. Would you like to hold one @uclhistory.bsky.social? If so get in touch with me! #skyhistorians

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

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Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

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Next up in the #SOAS History Seminar is @fkrautwald.bsky.social (UCL) who will be speaking about 'Mnemonic sovereignty: Memories of German colonialism and Africa’s decolonization'. Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 5pm in room C325. All welcome! For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...