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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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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
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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 — 👍 53    🔁 46    💬 0    📌 6
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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
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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
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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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