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Chris Evans

@cevans3.bsky.social

Historian of enslavement, emancipation, energy, and metals

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Liverpool UP

01.08.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Summer 2026, all being well.

31.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight I finished a complete redraft of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.

There's only formatting and a last proof read to go!

30.07.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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Attention #Scottish #History folks - a wonderful new publication from @sallytuckett.bsky.social! Transatlantic Threads published by @edinburghup.bsky.social

26.05.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Welsh university 'regulator' is 100%, 180 degrees wrong here. Hacking away at Welsh universities like this will *not* secure 'longer term sustainability': it will hasten their decline.

12.03.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This was an upsetting meeting on so many levels. Spare a thought please for my colleagues and me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

28.01.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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The James A. Rawley Prize of @historians.org in the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century -
"Traders in Men" by Nicholas Radburn
#slaveryhistory #atlantichistory

05.01.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Emancipation Proclamation Freed Thousands of Enslaved People on January 1, 1863. On January 1, 1863 Boston’s abolitionist community gathered on a cold, cloudy, and gloomy day in anticipation of the news that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

There is an incredible amount of misinformation out there about the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery that spans the political spectrum. One side castigates Lincoln and his proclamation while the other side argues that it changed nothing. πŸ—ƒοΈ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-emanci...

02.01.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

1/7 This is the key development in the culture war over the history of Empire that I’d anticipate in 2025:

30.12.2024 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

The cast: a director of the Bank of England / Cuban copper mine promoter-cum-enslaver; an Anglican priest / Royal Naval chaplain on anti-slavery patrol in the Mozambique Channel; an on-the-run swindler in France, Morocco, and Argentina / Confederate secret agent.

04.12.2024 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Locations: Sierra Leone in the 1810s, Cuba in the 1830s, The Cape in the 1840s, Kentucky in the 1860s.

04.12.2024 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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First draft complete! β€œSlavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation”. All 140,000 words of it. Rather more than the Press is bargaining on.

04.12.2024 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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First draft complete! β€œSlavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation”. All 140,000 words of it. Rather more than the Press is bargaining on.

04.12.2024 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thank you to mi amiga Julie for this gift from Mexico. Blast furnace biography is a genre I’d like to see more of.

27.11.2024 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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