@ukshheritage.bsky.social
The UK-St Helena Heritage Trust exists to raise awareness of and funds for the built and cultural heritage of the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, one of the UK's Overseas Territories. https://www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/
Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks"
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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
Tonight! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.
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
Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
Really looking forward to this!
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else?
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else?
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Tonight! Wed, 12 Nov, 6pm UK time. A British military architect in the time of Napoleon. On a remote island in the South Atlantic. We love history! #StHelena
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course.
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling!
Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.
One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
Yay! We're nearing our fundraising target to get a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the magnificent High Knoll Fort. Please donate if you can. This is British heritage and world heritage. We need to save it!
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
In 1815, aged 25, already battle-hardened, Napoleon fanboy Anthony Emmett secured his dream job as commanding royal engineer on St Helena during the exile of his hero. Historian Peter Hicks uncovers his intriguing life: Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...
In 1815, aged 25, already battle-hardened, Napoleon fanboy Anthony Emmett secured his dream job as commanding royal engineer on St Helena during the exile of his hero. Historian Peter Hicks uncovers his intriguing life: Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...
Yay! We're nearing our fundraising target to get a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the magnificent High Knoll Fort. Please donate if you can. This is British heritage and world heritage. We need to save it!
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
📣'Reporting Heritage Destruction' just published by Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS) Hub. Exploring how cultural heritage destruction is reported - asking who reports, what is reported, how, and with what consequences.
#openaccess
www.archaeopress.com/.../missingP...
Exploring monarchy and empire. Our Caribbean Teacher Fellowship launched this term with leading academics; find out more about this fully-funded programme and how it supports teachers. shorturl.at/OQXwH
We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme.
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians