My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*

Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and

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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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I’m looking forward to sharing my new project at @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social this week! The paper will use a review of The Heart of the Race, alongside the tensions between Black activists in Leeds, to think about conservatism and empire in Britain #MBS2026 www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

If you missed Michael Collins speaking about his new book @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social last week, then you can catch him him tomorrow with a virtual book launch with @thenacbs.bsky.social

TheNACBS@thenacbs.bsky.social · 4mo 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...

🚨 REMINDER ⏰ Join us tomorrow to attend our final seminar of the academic year! In person and online tickets available via the link below 👇🏾

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Michael Collins: “Rethinking black British history: perspectives from the (cricket) field.” 📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online) 📆 Thursday 7th May, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our final seminar of the academic year will take place next Thursday in-person and online! Join us to hear about Michael Collins’s latest book on Windrush Cricket #BlackBritishHistory

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Michael Collins: “Rethinking black British history: perspectives from the (cricket) field.” 📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online) 📆 Thursday 7th May, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Michael Collins: “Rethinking black British history: perspectives from the (cricket) field.” 📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online) 📆 Thursday 7th May, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Marika Sherwood (1937—2025), Prof Hakim Adi. HMJ Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2026). www.historymatters.online/marika-sherw....

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Join us *this* Thursday to hear from Dr Rochelle Rowe: “The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911” In-person and online tickets available! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911

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IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Rochelle Rowe: “The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911” 📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online) 📆 Thursday 19th March, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Rochelle Rowe: “The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911” 📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online) 📆 Thursday 19th March, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🔔 Next Thursday 19 March: Dr Rochelle Rowe (Edinburgh) will be speaking @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar on ‘The ‘West African Village’: Romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911.’ In person and online. Book now and join us if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain! Get your tickets below: 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain 📍 Online only 📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”, Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

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Deanna is fabulous! Worth attending if you can.

QMCBS@qmcbs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Looking forward to speaking about Manley and his visits to post-war Britain as part of the IHR Black British Seminar series… tickets below!

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain 📍 Online only 📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

HEY! That's our absolutely fabulous Deanna Lyncook! @qmul.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social!

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain 📍 Online only 📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain 📍 Online only 📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today! 👇🏾

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us this Thursday for a book talk Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past! 📍 Hybrid: Room 349, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📆 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And here's the link to the book itself, Donington, Mohamud, Whitburn and Draper (authors), Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past. Available in paperback but also free to download as a PDF from @uclpress.bsky.social . 2/2

Teaching Slavery

Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

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If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

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Join us this Thursday for a book talk Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past! 📍 Hybrid: Room 349, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📆 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026! Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies. For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk

This week I’ll present at the @cuhistorydept.bsky.social workshop on Black Europe: A Field on the Move in New York 🇺🇸 and the roundtable on methodologies in #BlackBritishHistory at @thenacbs.bsky.social in Montreal 🇨🇦 I look forward to our conversations on the need for Black European histories

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We will not have a seminar this month because many of our convenors will be at @thenacbs.bsky.social conference! Check out their papers on race and #BlackBritishHistory if you’ll be joining us in Montreal 🇨🇦 www.nacbs.org/conference

We will not have a seminar this month because many of our convenors will be at @thenacbs.bsky.social conference! Check out their papers on race and #BlackBritishHistory if you’ll be joining us in Montreal 🇨🇦 www.nacbs.org/conference

In this On History blog, Gaverne Bennett and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of race and ethnicity

Researching the histories of race and ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History  - On History

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Join us for a #BlackHistoryMonth roundtable discussion on Processing the Past: New Histories of Black British Culture and Identity. 🎤 Rochelle Rowe, Teleica Kirkland, Désha Osbourne, and yours truly 📅 Friday 21st October ⏰ 17:00 - 18:30 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute - Room 2.55 🔗 bit.ly/4oyTGOP

Join us live at the IHR or online. Register: tinyurl.com/2xt3th36 @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

We aren’t hosting a November event as so many of the co-convenors will be speaking at NACBS, but you can book now for our December event will be a discussion of the new book ‘Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past.’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

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Late in posting about this, but we had an excellent set of Lightning Talks from PhD students and ECRs studying Black British History at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar this week. The future is bright! ⚡️

What a wonderful start to the 2025/26 IHR Black British History seminar series! We heard students present on a range of topics, ranging from the 1500s to the 1980s. I’m looking forward to seeing how their research progresses. #BlackBritishHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

IHR Black British History Seminar@ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO