Pleased to have my work on the slave trade within pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue featured alongside the brilliant Joyce Chaplin 🌻 Eric Herschthal Tessa Murphy and Stuart M. McManus in the latest issue of the WMQ. Dr. Julia Gaffield was a wonderful editor!

We're hiring a one-year post doc here LancasterUniHistory to work on the Arts and Humanities Research Council and NEH funded project Unlocking the South Sea Company’s Archives. I'm happy to answer any queries about the position, applications for which close on April 12th: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM931/res…

Exciting post-doc position at Lancaster University on the project: 'Towards a Digital Archive of the Atlantic Slave Trades: Unlocking the Archives of the South Sea Company’. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM931/res…

'Traders in Men' by Nick Radburn is eye-opening and thought-provoking; it is a brilliant synthesis of the available information in all its forms; and it is a firm reminder about the lengths the greedy will go to in the pursuit of wealth. Yale University Press London📚 gethistory.co.uk/reviews/book-r…

Thanks to Lancaster University Library my article on the links between the transatlantic slave trade and the British gunpowder industry is now open access. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S00076…

Listen to the new episode of the #Slaveryarchive Podcast (audio) on the book Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale Univ Press) by Nick Radburn and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast (always free) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tra…

Here's a list of some of my favorite books on the trans-Atlantic slave trade that I produced for Shepherd.com 📚, including works by Katie Donington and Marcus Rediker: shepherd.com/best-books/how…

We're holding a workshop! 'Knowledge, Energy, and Industry in the Age of Revolution,' at the University of Birmingham, 24 November 2023. More info here: hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/reframingrevol…

Documents found by a British researcher and republished by The Washington Post show evidence of the monarchy’s intimate role in the transatlantic slave trade. wapo.st/3ESnaSW

Very happy to see my excellent PhD student Camilla de Koning and the brilliant Desiree Baptiste and Nick Radburn share some of their research with the The Washington Post. An interesting article on such an important topic by Karla Adam. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/…

Great to see the Washington Post publicizing the project that I'm undertaking with British Library The Huntington UM Clements Library and Slave Voyages to digitize the South Sea Company's papers washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/…

Environmental Historian ECRs!!! Lancaster University is *hiring* for a full-time, forever post. Please spread the word far and wide 🌎 😊 🌎 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

New job opening LancasterUniHistory @Lancaster - we are hiring a Lecturer in Environmental History (start Jan 2024)! See hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… for details.

Lancaster Arts Lancaster University Lancaster Arts City Lancaster VIC The Dukes Lancaster The Storey English Literature and Creative Writing Cumbria Uni English Arts Lancashire Lancaster Guardian National Poetry Day Caroline Bird Manchester Writing School uclan publishing LGGS English Department Ripley English Lancaster Girls' Grammar School LRGS Manchester Poetry Library Carcanet Press On 6/10 7:30pm The Storey, Nick Radburn will be in conversation with Geraldine Onek exploring TRADERS IN MEN, this study shows how the slave trade dragged millions of people into its terrible vortex.

Book your free or 'pay what you can' tickets now: bit.ly/45YyWGR

'The result is both an enlightening economic investigation and an unsparing documentation of atrocity.' —Publishers Weekly positively reviews Nick Radburn's Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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