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Malik Al Nasir

@malikalnasir.bsky.social

PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir

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Thanks for hosting us Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social and all your team and the local community in Toxteth.

08.03.2026 12:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A special thank you to the guest speakers, Dr
@malikalnasir.bsky.social and Rhiannon Jones, for their presentation on "Lifting The Barriers to Black Academia": blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...

02.03.2026 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

14.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This workshop will also include a presentation by Dr Malik Al Nasir and Rhiannon Llystyn Jones, editor and author of the ‘Lifting The Barriers To Black Academia Through Decolonisation and Positive Action — Policy Roundtable Report’. @malikalnasir.bsky.social : blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...

27.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Overcoming the horrors of Liverpool’s 1970s and 80s care system - Nu Origins Magazine While one can’t legally purchase alcohol or gain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) until 21 years of age in the U.S, turning 18 marks a significant landmark throughout most societies, allowing indiv...

“Growing up Black in the Merseyside care system.

Dr Malik Al Nasir in New York Magazine, Nu Origins, about his adolescent years growing up in Liverpool’s care system… & his recently published book: Searching for My Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #NuOrigins #NewYork

www.nuorigins.com/overcoming-t...

19.01.2026 09:36 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

There will be be no investigation. There is no due process in America anymore. It has reverted to the Wild West. You have a better chance of justice in a third world country these days than the USA. All politicians on both sides are to blame. Your poor decisions have led to this. Take responsibility

19.01.2026 07:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge ‘I suspect that in ten years’ time, we’ll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we’d heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty. That we’ll struggle to imagine how we ...

The project was to some degree underpinned by my research into Sandbach Tinne who enslaved my ancestors in Demerara. You can read about it in my book
harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...

13.01.2026 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.

You can access my digital collection of the merchants that enslaved my ancestors in Guyana on the University of Cambridge Library website. Sandbach Tinne were among the UK’s biggest enslavers. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sand...

12.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Sandbach Research Project

You can read about it here www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/Sandbach-Res...

12.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archiveA bundle of letters discovered for sale on eBay by a man researching his roots has cast new...

23.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.

Discover more about Al Nasir's painstaking research to expose Sandbach Tinne & Co. ⬇️

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sand...

@stcatharines.bsky.social

28.08.2025 09:51 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The flag of The Bahamas flying above St Catharine's College

The flag of The Bahamas flying above St Catharine's College

Publicity for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' event on 9 October

Publicity for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' event on 9 October

We're flying the flag of The Bahamas for the 6th year in a row to celebrate the start of Black History Month, commemorating our first Black student A.F. Adderley (1912, Law) & over a century of Black history at Catz ever since. See what's planned at caths.cam.ac.uk/bhm-...

01.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus was an Asylum Seeker who fled from Palestine due to a well founded fear of persecution and sought refuge in Egypt. Imagine what Xmas would be if Reform had been power in Egypt?

13.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Visual methodologies in documenting community knowledge in planning - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Open call 📣

CRASSH's Community Design Lab & the Cambridge Room invite artists and collectives to apply for a £2,000 commission to support a project that explores how Cambridge is understood through its social, spatial, historical, and cultural layers

Apply by 19 Jan
https://bit.ly/3XDXymf

13.12.2025 13:41 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Was a pleasure to speak about #Heiresses @bridportarts.bsky.social with @malikalnasir.bsky.social - author of “Searching For My Slave Roots” and @paullashmar.bsky.social author of “Drax of Drax Hall“. So many synergies between our work. And some fascinating insights from the audience too…

25.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Cardinal rule “Don’t get high on your own supply” (Tony Montana)

14.11.2025 22:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Malik Al Nasir – Searching for my slave roots: from Guyana´s sugar plantations to Cambridge...wit...
YouTube video by Talk Radio Europe Malik Al Nasir – Searching for my slave roots: from Guyana´s sugar plantations to Cambridge...wit...

Check out my interveiw on Talk Radio Europe about the worlds 1st Black International footballer Andrew Watson. I’m also talking about my new book 📕 “Searching for my Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe

youtu.be/9ztQJbJDLf8?...

30.10.2025 04:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to Afrori Books in Brighton for hosting my book launch of ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ at Brighton Jubilee Library on 25 Oct 2025, where I was in conversation with Nat Arias.

#MalikAlNasir #NatArias #AfroriBooks #Brighton #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #BHM #BookLaunch

28.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Sandbach Tinne Sandbach Tinne

'But the letters’ significance to the study of colonialism was appreciated only when Malik Al Nasir bought a tranche of them while researching his own family history and began building an archive.' 2/2 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

23.09.2025 06:51 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

Who are we?

Geneology has come a long way. Now used to track down notorious serial killers (Golden State,De Angelo). Researchers and experts are making headway on tracking down enslaved people roots all over world. 🌎

Fascinating👏 Malik Al Nasir,The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

23.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0