Looking forward to this! 💥 Sat 14 October, 7pm St James's Church, Piccadilly An ode to Quobna Ottobah Cugoano featuring Julianknxx (artist, poet & filmmaker), coinciding with Frieze London and his Barbican exhibition ‘Chorus in Rememory of Flight’ #BlackHistoryMonth sjp.org.uk/whats-on/cugoa…

2nd revised and expanded edition of my book Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury History) in digital format is out today! 🎉 Physical book available on November 30. Check it out #slaveryarchive bloomsbury.com/us/97813502976…

Great series 🛶💥

'The individual Haitian lives that we glimpse emerge from a hostile archive, itself built from processes of violence.' Desirée Baptiste (Desirée Baptiste) on an enslaved people’s path to revolution the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-sec…

“There’s not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee” (‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture’ by William Wordsworth. 1802) In John Garrigus’s superb new book a great many more heroes of the Haitian Revolution are remembered 🔥 My review: The TLS Embassy of Haiti.U.K John Garrigus

A brilliant delivery of the 60th Founders’ Memorial Lecture Girton College, Cambridge University by the inimitable @olivetteotele.👏🏿 It was a critical examination of how and why history is present - with keen focus on the routes of action to drive meaningful change. Keep shining, Prof! 💫

A book that I love, transformed into a play 🎭 Sam Selvon’s ‘The Lonely Londoners’ ❤️🤍🖤 adapted by Roy Williams, is at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 6 April. My review is in the current issue The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-l…

Appreciate His Grace Archbishop @justinwelby’s thoughtful response to my research on The Church of England involvement in chattel slavery on the Codrington plantations. The work continues Denis O'Brien Lucy Gaffney Maguire Kamali Melbourne theguardian.com/world/article/…

The Caribbean writer @KevinJHosein has won the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction 2024 for his novel HUNGRY GHOSTS (@bloomsburybooks), which tells the story of marginalised Hindu communities in colonial 1940s Trinidad. #histfic #HungryGhosts

Slave trader Edward Colston (whose statue was toppled in 2020) left money to missionary arm of The Church of England (which then purchased more enslaved Africans) ⛪️⛓️⚓️ @JustinWelby Corinne Fowler Alan Lester Sathnam Sanghera Lucy Gaffney Maguire amp.theguardian.com/world/article/…

The importance of engagement and collaboration between descendants of the enslaved and those that enslaved cannot be stressed enough. Otherwise all we have is a new colonial mentality. Verene A. Shepherd Sir Geoff Palmer Catarina Demony Desirée Baptiste Jamaica Gleaner

Arrived in beautiful Chester tonight, on Emancipation Day! Excited to be performing ‘Incidents’ (on Friday and Saturday), the first transatlantic slavery poem/play to be staged in an Anglican Cathedral💥 Huge thanks Chester Cathedral 🎭⛪️⛓️ chestercathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…

What a joy to perform ‘Incidents’ in the exquisite Chester Cathedral 💥. Wonderful audience & lively Q&A last night. Looking forward to breaking a leg again later! 🎭 Do come along/share, it’s free!👇 chestercathedral.com/events/event/2… in the Life of an Anglican Slave

For those in the UK, you can support Caribbean filmmakers including Neisha Agostini, hosting a series of Carnival Film Screenings in Notting Hill this weekend, celebrating Caribbean culture.

“There’s also another aspect of the Portuguese colonial history, which is the existence of this big and important community of African descent”❤️ Catarina Demony Lucy Gaffney Maguire Corinne Fowler Dr. Miranda Kaufmann

What a cracking start to the talks we had today. Thank you to the autumn sunshine for making it extra enjoyable. What can you expect from day 2 at #GlosHistFest24? Prof Janina Ramirez Phil Moss @AndrewRPGlevum David Olusoga @greg_jenner WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK Corinne Fowler & Stewart Lee

The BOCAS Litfest is coming to Madrid on Tuesday - a FREE event at Casa América Get a taste of the Caribbean in Madrid! Here we interview one of the visiting writers. Kevin Jared Hosein Bocas Lit Fest themadridreview.com/f/kevin-jared-…

King Charles says: 'none of us can change the past'. But why not acknowledge it? Buckingham Palace promised to comment on my research revealing the trafficking & enslaving of Africans by the King’s ancestor Edward Porteus. 18 months on, still not a word 👑 theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

Excellent work, as ever, by Alan Lester