Monticello identifies six more people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson
The six people include four adults—Moses, Nanny, Mary Ann Hern, and Robert—and two children whose names remain unknown.
Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
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London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
"James, an illiterate percussionist in the 18th Light Dragoons, was likely to have been born enslaved in Montserrat, the West Indies, in 1789. ... He was awarded the Waterloo Medal after being wounded fighting a band of Prussian soldiers who had deserted and tried to loot his officers’ belongings."
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Great to see several SGSAH researchers presenting their work at this conference—including @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social & @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social. Wishing everyone a fantastic event!
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Excited to finally be presenting my work on Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic wealth!
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WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland
📢 WHS Research Bursary!
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding
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🗃️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : “GLOBAL HISTORIES OF GENDER AND OLD AGE,” A Special Issue for the Journal of Women’s History
For more information on this great opportunity, go to our website: jwomenshistory.org/call-for-sub...
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Writing (Slavery-linked) White Lives
Presented by the Centre for Life Writing and Oral History, with the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, at London Met.
Writing White Lives: What compels people to investigate their ancestors’ role as slave-owners? How do they go about it? What do they hope that their research will achieve? And what has been the impact on them and their family?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sl...
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An important reminder that abolition did not eradicate Britain's ties to slavery. As the article states, enslaved labour continued in areas where slavery had not yet been abolished (eg. Cuba, Brazil). Glasgow engineering firms supported Cuban plantations post-abolition by supplying sugar machinery.
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
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Monochrome engraving of busy 19th-century dock scene, with the masts of many vessels in the background, framed by two street lamps, and a sparser foreground. 'The Broomielaw in the 1840s', from C. A. Oakley, The Second City (Glasgow: Blackie, 1967), p. 54.
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass gave his first speech in Scotland at Glasgow's City Hall. 'He did not mean to dispute the existence of much misery & suffering in this country; but he denied that they had slavery here'. bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
The CMRS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance/seminars-and-events/seminars
The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Home to the University of Oxford's community of Intellectual Historians | Follow us for updates on events, publications & more | intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
University of Exeter Centre for Early Modern Studies - a place for interdisciplinary exchange among staff and students and engagement with the wider academic world.
(Posts by Lucy Hurst).
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, for records of the archdiocese, local parishes, businesses, hospitals etc. borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
Our aim is to promote, support, and assist in the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History (formerly the Centre for English Local History) at the University of Leicester
The International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is based at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
We are the world's leading research centre for the study of the history of sport.
Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood
The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
The Centre encourages the study of legal history, with particular attention to Scots and Roman law.
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-networks/centre-for-legal-history
Home to King's College London Naval History, Seapower and Maritime Strategy Research @warstudieskcl @dsdkings
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/laughtoncorbettcentre
The Centre for Reformation & Early Modern Studies (CREMS) is a centre of excellence at the University of Birmingham for interdisciplinary research into the history of the Reformation and early modern Britain and Europe.
