Grace Carrington

Join Marley Lix-Jones for a powerful talk on the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.
📅 3 Dec | ⏲️17:30 – 19:00 |💻 Online
🔗 shorturl.at/dkhWQ

Excited to be launching my new book 'Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty' (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) at LSE tomorrow at 6pm. Everyone welcome - registration details here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

On Thurs 20 Nov we host one of our alumni, Dr Grace Carrington, who will be speaking about her new book “Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean”.

Register here:
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#book #event #alumni #history #colonisation #caribbean #LSE

Cover and spine of The Crown’s Silence

Heading to the printers soon and out in both the US/UK in three months!
#booksky 📚
Available for pre-order now wherever books are sold: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

CSI Autumn 2025 Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism Lunchtime seminar by Dr Emma Kluge (Exeter) on “Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific” What: The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of the world’s surface. Howe...

Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)

Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

Tues 18 Nov, Prof Bradley Simpson joins us to talk about his soon to be released book 'The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order'.

Full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#event #history #book #UN #LSE

Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support

🆕 Democratic disaffection and resentment ✊

Using survey data 📊 from 6 European countries 🇪🇺 @mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler examine how #SGRD, already linked to radical political support, relates to general support for democracy 🏛️

#OA 📖

Imperial Island Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people, their culture, society and politics, throughout the last seventy years. ...

anyway if you want to find out more about empire, migration and British culture, BUY MY BOOK

Caribbean Studies Seminar

Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:

Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development

@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

shorturl.at/BLplw

📚 Seminar Alert!
Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History at UCL, introduces his forthcoming book: The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics and Health in the U.S. since the Rights Revolutions

📅 15 Oct 2025
⏰ 4pm
📍 51 Gordon Square
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Illustration of a 19th-century sugar plantation in Cuba with a steam locomotive in the foreground, red-roofed buildings with smoking chimneys, palm trees, crop fields, and a few people near train tracks, all framed by an ornate border.

📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series!

"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling

🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online

More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

So excited to dig into this book, which intersects with so many of the arguments about small-state self-determination and decolonization in my own new book. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/forg...

Thanks! How exciting!

My new book has arrived! I had some enthusiastic assistance opening the box... 'Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean' is available from @universitypress.cambridge.org here: www.cambridge.org/9781009560412