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The LJMU Impact & Engagement team are delighted to present this film from Prof Prof. Gillian O'Brien Presenting the Past as part of our impact hub film series. Gillian is helping to revolutionise the way the past is presented by heritage orgs.
youtu.be/MWd65Izyt3Y?si… via YouTube

So incredibly proud of my wonderful friend Richard Stone and excited to see this in print. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700 amzn.eu/d/auoeqWf

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Over the last year funded by Liverpool John Moores University . We have been working directly with Black women academics & students & staff across universities and with our community. Listening to them, discussing our experiences has culminated in the Black in the ivory exhibition, on 22nd April 5:30pm

Have almost finished re-reading All that she carried by Tiya Miles and reveling in the gorgeous and profoundly moving writing. Can’t wait to discuss this breathtaking book on Wednesday. #Microhistory

On this day in 1824, Government voted to fund the creation of a national art collection.

200 years later, the 'National Gallery of the North' has remained closed since 17 February because the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and National Museums Liverpool won't stump to the funds to pay their workers what they're owed.

“Resistance is *how* we respond to oppression, refusal is why,” says Kellie Carter Jackson in yet another gorgeous talk to honor Deborah Gray White.

Guyana seeks the repatriation of an 1817 letter from the enslaved deacons of Bethel Chapel to the London Missionary Society, a letter dictated by the head deacon Quamina, head carpenter on John Gladstone’s estate, Success, and leader of the 1823 revolt: archive.ph/8OMso

Me on the ongoing PCS Liverpool Museums industrial action.

Long-term followers will be shocked that I out myself as Not-A-Tory. #NMLPayUp

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…

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Sharing news of my forthcoming impressionistic biography that paints Harriet Tubman -- the girl, teen, woman, champion, and caretaker in all of her humanity and alongside other Black holy women.

It's #WomenHistoryMonth & #womenhistoryday , we celebrate women scholars by reading them, citing them, and promoting their works. Do you know the amazing work of historian Dr. Robin Mitchell? Go check her beautiful Vénus Noire by UGA Press ugapress.org/book/978082035… #slaveryarchive

Digital BAAS 2024 reg is open! 👇

Please spread the word! There’s an AHRC-funded PhD position to work with me, Shirin Hirsch and Rebecca Jackson at Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service for a project on antiracist activism in North Staffordshire. Apply by 5pm on March 14. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGD074/phd…

And thanks to Natalie Denny and Michelle Richards Collective Encounters for throwing everything behind this! So much forward-thinking, positivity, and creativity around this project that deals with such a difficult topic. SO much more to come; this is just the beginning!

The March issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue on
'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World'.

The Guest Editors are Beth R. Wilson and Emily West.

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At this vital conference today, discussing reproductive health and justice. Learning so much from different disciplines, including this creative methodology from Liza Caruana-Finkel. Thank you to the organisers!

Prof. Stephen Kenny discusses his article, “A Dictate of Both Interest and Mercy”: Slave Hospitals in the Antebellum South.” alongside John Piche, Outreach Librarian for the Cleveland Heights Library (Ohio).

Link to the video can be found here: ow.ly/zNry50QBVJa