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🏏 In the latest instalment of our 2024 #PorticoMagazine review, Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) explores the social and political role of cricket: from a tool of empire to the “beating heart” of Caribbean social life in post-war Britain. bit.ly/3ZWTBK1
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And the winner of the Outstanding Community-Engaged Learning Award is…
our very own Anna Maguire!
@UCLHistory (how cool…to be at the Olympic Park wearing a medal…).
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Well done to Dr @AndrewSeaton @UCLHistory for being shortlisted for this amazing prize, which is a tremendous achievement in itself 👏👏👏 and many, many congratulations to the winner, Joya Chatterji 🥳
And that's a wrap! Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, Joya Chatterji, for her book Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, and to the brilliant shortlisted authors listed below:
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👉African Voices Against Slavery: Exhibition at UCL East👈
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery on 2 December, 6-8:30pm 💬
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The exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’ opens in the UCL East campus from 3-17 December.
🗓️Opening symposium on 3 December at 6pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/history/research/a…
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Are you a UCL Social Science Mid-Career Researcher? If so, join our new Coordinating Group and develop an activity programme that will identify the needs and challenges encountered by mid-career researchers, and find ways to address them.
tinyurl.com/2r4z4tre @UCLResearch
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Did you know that cricket plays a significant role in the analysing the legacy of the British empire?
Dive into this insightful piece by Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) to learn about how the sport has shaped post-imperial history 🏏
@aftertheraj
buff.ly/3NIrzfH
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Americans are heading to the polls on #2024election day today 🇺🇸 and it is no secret that gender and sexuality have become a major focus this election cycle.
Catch up on our panel event delving into this pressing issue: buff.ly/3xXRVWd
@uclspp @UCLHistory @UCLAmericas
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Do YOU love a Sunday morning debate about the funding model, and indeed the entire future of the NHS?! Well if so this debate is for you!
‘It’s not the volume of money going in, or how we raise it, it’s what we do with it’ 👏👏👏
@BeaconRosie making the case for NHS reform on BBC Sunday Morning Live
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It's November, which means our annual President's Address is coming up soon! Register your place to hear Incoming RHS President Lucy Noakes speak on how memories of WWII have been utilised to the present day.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
Join us in person: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-presi…
Or online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/102269192…
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EVENT: Dr Kimberly Schreiber, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, hosts the first in a series of seminars on photography and history in the Americas.
Book now ➡️ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
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Coming up next academic year @UCLSSEES @uclhjs and @UCLHistory: The Titus Cytowski Rzeczpospolita Prize on the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Undergraduate or graduate student, consider submitting an essay in 2024-25
ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2024/ma…
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I'm honoured that my book, 'Our NHS', has won the 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Thanks to @AHAhistorians, all of the judges, and @yalepress @YaleBooks!
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2024 awardees! #AHAPerspectives historians.org/perspectives-…
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This is only the beginning. There is much more to come from the Caribbean Cricket Archive. Check back in or get in touch with more histories as we continue to update the archive throughout Black History Month and beyond! @accacricket @WindrushCricket @UCLHistory @AceProgramme
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This #BlackHistoryMonth don't miss Carribean Journeys and Colonial Legacies: A Reading of Ocean Stirrings by Merle Collins. The event honours Guyanese historian Elsa V. Goveia (@UCLHistory 1948).
📆 Monday 14 Oct
🕔 5pm-6.30pm
📍 IAS Common Ground bit.ly/4gYKAb3
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Join the UCL Americas community for another of our popular public seminars. Registration is essential
➡️ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
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Ah…UCL Portico is such a lovely place to have a chat with some of our @uclhistory MA students!
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Join us for the first public seminar of 2024-25!
Registration required.
➡ ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
View all the fantastic speakers coming up in the series
➡ ucl.ac.uk/americas/institute…
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Congratulations to Dr @AndrewSeaton @UCLHistory who has been shortlisted for the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize, for his book 'Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution' ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/sep/ucl-…
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Great to join @France24_en this morning to discuss this week's Democratic National Convention.
@UCLHistory @CUSP_ucl @uclnews
