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Alex Ward

@alexandra-ward.bsky.social

Postgraduate Researcher @ University of Leeds. Interested in Britain’s Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 'Liberated Africans', St Helena, Migration and Atlantic History. Currently teaching 'Global Empires'.

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Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!

Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312

02.12.2025 11:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History at University of Leeds Discover Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Job Opportunity!

Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...

31.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 8 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you to the Friends of St Helena for inviting me to speak at their annual meeting where I discussed my PhD research, my recent trip to the island, and the family history I undertook while there. Also delighted to have been published in FoSH's journal, the Wirebird!

29.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminder! Call for Papers for the School of History PGR Seminar closes next week (Monday 20th October). Apply here: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd #History #PGR #CfP

14.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SSHM 2026: In/Out Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/

13.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 58 🔁 47 💬 0 📌 8

Call for Papers! Applications to present at the University of Leeds' School of History Postgraduate Research Seminar for the 2025-26 year are now open. If you are a postgraduate with work-in-progress on any time period or aspect of historical study, please do apply: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd

30.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Happy to share that my review of Mary Hicks' 'Captive Cosmopolitans; Black Mariners and the World of South
Atlantic Slavery' book has been published on H-Net, you can read here! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

29.07.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Announcing Conference on Voices of the Marginalised in History 7-8 July 2025 | UON We’re pleased to announce the programme for the Voices of the Marginalised in History conference at the University of Northampton, Waterside campus,...

Looking forward to presenting a paper at the 'Voices of the Marginalised' conference in 2 weeks, based on some of my PhD research on 'liberated African' migration
www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

23.06.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Home for the next month! So excited to be working with the Museum, National Trust and schools here on St Helena alongside my PhD research

29.05.2025 09:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you to Dulwich College History Society for inviting me to speak on my research on Friday! It was great to meet some future historians & reflect on lots of interesting questions they had.

19.05.2025 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Mary Hicks
@maryhicks

Author: Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/captive-cosmopolitans/

Wilberforce Institute
@wilberforcehull

Our world-leading institute, established in 2006 at the University of Hull, is at the forefront of researching and tackling slavery and injustice, giving voice to the exploited, both past and present. www.hull.ac.uk/wilberforce

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
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William Gould
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History Workshop
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Dr Katie Carpenter
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Andrea Major
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Laura King (she/her)
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Lou Bell
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