Richard Black was left stranded in Trinidad for 40 years after his UK citizenship was revoked - he is thought to be one of the earliest victims of the Windrush scandal.

Ayshah Tull caught up with him and his wife on their long awaited homecoming.

Leighan We interviewed Richard while in Trinidad last year. He just called me today to say he is back safe and well and sends a huge thank you to everyone. Please listen to his incredible story: windrushscandal.org/richard-black-…

El gran amor de mi vida.

If any former colleagues/students are in St Andrews this week, please come to our one-day workshop aimed at Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Institute of Historical Research St Andrews History Telling and Sharing Stories history.ac.uk/events/ihr-at-…

There are days when I wish I’d learnt Polish…

Forty years ago, Gay's The Word was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new exhibition Senate House Library School of Advanced Study, University of London reveals more –
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Are academia and motherhood incompatible? Yes.
Motherhood penalty continues to exist.
I was a single parent in academia, then I was trying to become a mother again, and I was also a new mother in academia.
Every experience was highly traumatic.

Still time to sign up (online and in-person) for our ‘Life After the PhD’ event HistoryLab+ HistoryLab Institute of Historical Research this Saturday!

I’m currently mentoring a PhD student who is looking for an English language proofreader to help with their final submission. Can someone recommend a) financial support they can access to faciliate this? b) a person who might be able to provide this service at a reduced cost?

Our CLACS Seminar 'Black Caribbean Archive: Sites, Methods and Imagination' ILCS is now online! Featuring Olivier Marboeuf who is currently hosted by University of London Institute in Paris as part of his Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship #distantislandsspectralcities

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/black…

ID cards are the magnifiers of existing exclusions. There's a lot to fix - in law, society, and economics - to mitigate those risks.

And if you've done all of that, then you probably find you don't need them anyway.

Um…nope. Rather perplexing defence of ID cards The Guardian⁩

“Would ID cards be such a bad idea if they made things work a bit better? [Is] it time to sacrifice freedom for administrative efficiency, and bow down to po-faced officialdom?” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’ve achieved many things in my life: passed my driving test, got a PhD, wrote a book. But nothing NOTHING has made me prouder this week than potty training my three-year-old. My biggest accomplishment by far!

In the latest Critical #Statelessness Studies blog entry, Angshuman Choudhury argues for the concept of 'zones of statelessness' to usefully understand situations of more spectral #citizenship #deprivation - like that of #Assam , #India .
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Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology is looking to recruit someone with Caribbean expertise, to collaborate with Caribbean Studies, Instituto de Estudios del Caribe UPRRP. Of interest to Society for Caribbean Studies YP Caribbean Studies AMEC Centre for Caribbean Studies American Anthropological Association History of Anthropology Review Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology. uprrp.edu/empleos/

There's still time to sign up for our last Caribbean Studies seminar of the semester: 'Dancing Beyond the Black: A New Afro-Diasporic Ethnographic Research Method' w/ Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa (Leeds) Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Thank you all who made it an amazing year!
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