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Dating back to 1830, UCL History sits in the heart of London and welcomes the best researchers and students from around the world 🌎
African socialisms were original ideologies rather than a generic repackaging - join us next Tuesday October 13 for an IHR African History Seminar with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social (Rice University) to examine Kwame Nkrumah's efforts to transform Ghana into Africa's first socialist state!
We are hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in European Prehistory Fixed-term | Full time | Hybrid Know someone who might be a good fit? Tag them in comments! 🔗Find out more: tinyurl.com/EuroPreHist 📷 Charlotte Frearson #Jobs #Careers #Hiring #Archaeology #UCL
Join us for a hybrid CCEAS Seminar with Elisabeth Forster on ‘A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party in 1949’ 💬 👉 Book your free place here: shorturl.at/FfF2i
UCL History research centre and @Ancestry make nearly 4m records documenting enslaved people across 20 former British colonies searchable online. Via The Guardian: https://bit.ly/4cWAqY2
🥛 Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social (University of Oxford’s History of Science Museum), are in the new BBC Ideas film: ‘Five surprising things you probably didn’t know about milk’. Check it out 👇 #Milk #BBCIdeas #Archaeology
Five little-known facts about milk
Is milk good for us? When did we start drinking it? How common is lactose intolerance? Here are five facts about milk.
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UCL History alumnus Edward Shawcross explores the rise and fall of Napoleon III in his new book, The People’s Emperor, drawing on research developed during his MA and PhD at UCL 🎓📖 👉 Read more about Edward’s journey from UCL historian to author: shorturl.at/7Lm2g
UCL History alumnus Edward Shawcross publishes new book on Napoleon III
UCL History alumnus Edward Shawcross explores the remarkable life and political career of Napoleon III in his latest book, The People’s Emperor, published by Faber & Faber.
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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 · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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 · 5mo 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 · 5mo 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
