Jenny Shaw
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
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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Run, don’t stop, etc. High recommend! 🗃️
Andrew J. Huebner@andrewhuebner.bsky.social · 3mo agowww.cambridge.org/core/books/c... So our Cambridge History of War and Society is out and available! My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are so appreciative of all our authors—see list in the image. We’re very proud of this volume and it’s because of all the incredible scholars who contributed.
Once more for the morning “this side of the Atlantic” folks 😊🗃️
Jenny Shaw@profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago#Skystorians! What are your favourite articles on the early modern Caribbean (anything up to and including the Haitian Revolution) for undergrads? Style and form as important as content (it's for a writing seminar). Please and thank you! 🗃️
Reposting for those who recovering from the WC semi final! 🗃️
Jenny Shaw@profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago#Skystorians! What are your favourite articles on the early modern Caribbean (anything up to and including the Haitian Revolution) for undergrads? Style and form as important as content (it's for a writing seminar). Please and thank you! 🗃️
#Skystorians! What are your favourite articles on the early modern Caribbean (anything up to and including the Haitian Revolution) for undergrads? Style and form as important as content (it's for a writing seminar). Please and thank you! 🗃️
My column this week. In the face of unprecedented attacks on academic independence from Alabama politicians, the leaders of the University of Alabama and Auburn University have been weak. And they're allowing their schools to become another tiresome extension of state politics.
Academic excellence suffers when Alabama college leaders shrink from fights | Alabama Reflector
The official reason Auburn’s Board of Trustees dissolved its faculty senate and took power over curricula? To “advance academic quality, transparency, consistency and institutional alignment while pre...
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Thread! 🗃️
Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have created a booklet with advertisements of self-emancipating enslaved people in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries. It aims to make these ads more accessible and contains images of c. 20 ads, their transcriptions, and a short introduction contextualizing them. tinyurl.com/26zkuxf7 1/
Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions
$2 trillion the value of labor and life stolen on Barbados alone. An “accounting of the harm that was done” indeed. 🗃️🇧🇧 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report
Experts put estimate for economic harm done by 200 years of chattel slavery at $2tn, but stress this is ‘not an invoice’
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And for those who'd rather listen than watch (that would be me!) head here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🗃️
The Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw
Podcast Episode · Revolutions in Retrospect · April 22 · 59m
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Jenny Shaw@profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 6mo agoHuge thanks to @lynnprobbins.bsky.social for the great conversation and the whole REVOLUTIONS IN RETROSPECT team for putting the final product together. It was such fun! 🗃️ cc. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social; @uncpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvS...
Huge thanks to @lynnprobbins.bsky.social for the great conversation and the whole REVOLUTIONS IN RETROSPECT team for putting the final product together. It was such fun! 🗃️ cc. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social; @uncpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvS...
The Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw I Revolutions in Retrospect
YouTube video by Primary Source Media
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Gotta love some Ben’s Bread!!! Had a fab time learning how-to with @playingcleo.bsky.social For those in the Tuscaloosa area (or willing to travel) who want the real thing prepped and baked by Ben and Nanda go here: www.bensbreadtuscaloosa.com (Pro-tip: if you want to be sure, do the preorder!)
Reminder to non-Alabamians that the ICE surge is still happening, but it's quietly happening in red states.
AL.com@al.com · 6mo ago🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2026/04/alabama-immigration-arrests-still-growing-in-2026.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky Federal agents arrested 1,795 immigrants in Alabama through March 10, according to updated data released by the Deportation Data Project.
HB 580 made it out of committee. Call your senator NOW and tell them to vote no! Tomorrow will be too late. #protecthighered #aaup #voteno
A terrible solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Never change, Alabama GOP!
Willi Morris@williesha.bsky.social · 6mo agoA bill changing faculty senate structure, tenure and curriculum for Alabama colleges passed out of the Senate finance committee with no major changes. Before it hits the Senate floor, read how it was debated in the House.
HB580 would effectively remove tenure, end faculty governance, and give control of curriculum over to the Board of Trustees--threatening the integrity of our curriculum and accreditation. We think curriculum should be designed by experts in the field, not politicians. What do you think?
Great listen! Now go buy @anelisehshrout.bsky.social’s brilliant book!!! 🗃️ nyupress.org/978147982459...
Aiding Ireland
Honorable Mention, 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social SciencesLooks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine r...
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Anelise Hanson Shrout@anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 7mo agoI did an interview with WBHM about donations made by enslaved people to Irish famine relief, and talked about solidarity and humanitarianism on this St. Patrick's day: www.wbhm.org/local-news/2...
THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS audiobook, read by the amazing Heni Zoutomou, is one year old. To celebrate, audiobooks.com are offering 70% off (+ 2 more books for free!). Only $6 - deal is good until 31st March! 🗃️ @sonyabonczek.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
70% OFF The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved...
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Two of my absolutely favorite book things together: @sonyabonczek.bsky.social and @draftingthepast.bsky.social Match made in heaven! 🗃️
Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 8mo agoUsually, I chat with historians about writing. But this week we're pulling back the curtain on book publicity! @sonyabonczek.bsky.social, dir of publicity at @uncpress.bsky.social, joined me to demystify the work of publicists and give some advice to authors. Listen: tinyurl.com/sonyabonczek 🗃️ 📚
Great listen - bonus pen chat was an unexpected delight!
Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhat a pleasure to talk with @kawulf.bsky.social about her love of all aspects of her work for this episode! You'll hear about the making of her new book, Lineage (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social), and how she keeps writing as director of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
OMG, congratulations @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! So deserved!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
TheNACBS@thenacbs.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis year, the John Ben Snow Prize is awarded to Melissa Reynolds for her book Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print. Congrats @melkatrey.bsky.social !! 👏 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Hot juice in the @draftingthepast.bsky.social insulated travel cup to get through this election night #Mamdani #onceaNewYorker… (and do yourselves a favour and go listen to the podcast while you wait for the results to come in) 🗃️
Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · last yr.We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
Thank you, Alyssa! (I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)
Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · last yr.And congrats too @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on this super review of your book in the AHR, which calls it a "methodological tour de force"! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳 🗃️
So, @profkfh.bsky.social, this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆 @pennpress.bsky.social
