Historian, Head of UCL History Department. A medievalist who knows that dill tastes like Sweden and we’re just a bus stop in Hounslow.
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Most anticipated books of 2025: Chloe Ireton's Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (@cambUP_History) #slaveryarchive amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-T…
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Celebrating the arrival of author copies of my book today. So surreal (and thrilling) to see the book in print! You can order your copy in paperback, hardback or ebook here: cambridge.org/core/books/sla…
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Big congrats to @ChloeIreton on the publication of what I know will be a very well-received book! @cambUP_History
Celebrating the arrival of author copies of my book today. So surreal (and thrilling) to see the book in print! You can order your copy in paperback, hardback or ebook here: cambridge.org/core/books/sla…
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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Images as History Seminar Series: Africa in the US Cold War Photographic Archive 📷
Dr Kimberly Schreiber hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas with Professor Darren Newbury 🇺🇸
🗓️3 Dec, 6–8pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
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✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already online cambridge.org/core/books/sla…
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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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👉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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"I wanted to make a health system become a living, breathing thing and I thought the best way to do that was to consider it historically"
Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton (@AndrewSeaton) is shortlisted for the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize
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This year's UCL History Neale Lecture will feature Professor Jo Van Steenbergen who will be speaking on 'The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)' 💬
👉Book here: ucl.ac.uk/history/events/202…
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✨Professor Matthew J. Smith delivers the 2024 F.E.L. Priestley Distinguished lecture series in the History of Ideas at University College, University of Toronto, Canada on 12-14 November✨
The lectures were titled 'Three Island Overtures'.
Read more: shorturl.at/84JBl
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Dr Robert Suits, our Lecturer in Environmental History, gave a brilliant taster lecture on ‘Beef and Industrialisation in the United States’ on our @UCLSocHistSci Undergraduate Taster Day last Saturday!🥩🇺🇸
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Dr Fabian Krautwald (Lecturer in African History) has published a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the Germany's major daily newspapers 📰✨
faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist…
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It's been goals galore at Brentford this season! 💥
Is it the most entertaining place to watch football in England?
More here ⬇️
bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
#BBCFootball
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Paul Fouracre's @guardian obituary of Jinty Nelson celebrates a historian who "managed to combine impeccable scholarship with a high degree of empathy towards figures past and present." bit.ly/3NWnZOW
#twitterstorians 1/2
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Meet Dr @AndrewSeaton, whose book, ‘Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution’ is shortlisted for @WolfsonHistory🏆
Andrew tells us about the inspiration behind his book, his proudest achievement, and his thoughts on coffee! @UCLHistory
buff.ly/3NLRy5K
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This week @RoyalHistSoc published 'The Value of History in UK Higher Education & Society' bit.ly/RHS_Value_of_History.
The briefing considers history's many strengths as a degree subject; the threats facing history in HE; & what we risk losing if cuts continue 1/2 #twitterstorians
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Heather Jones, Professor in Modern and Contemporary European History, recently discussed the new series of A House Through Time on BBC Points of View 📺
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b…
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Dr Michael Collins analyses the legacy of empire and how it shapes the nation we live in today. Yet amid complex layers of post-imperial history, he has found one topic to have a surprising and significant role: the game of cricket 🏏 @aftertheraj
👉shorturl.at/D2nsE 👈
