IHR Black British History Seminar

Teaching Slavery Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

And here's the link to the book itself, Donington, Mohamud, Whitburn and Draper (authors), Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past. Available in paperback but also free to download as a PDF from @uclpress.bsky.social . 2/2

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH BLACK BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR TEACHING SLAVERY: NEW APPROACHES TO BRITAIN'S COLONIAL PAST SPEAKERS: KATIE DONINGTON (OPEN UNIVERSITY) ABDUL MOHAMUD (UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION), ROBIN WHITBURN (UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION), NICHOLAS DRAPER (UCL) THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2025, 5:30 PM ROOM 349, THIRD FLOOR, INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH, SENATE HOUSE (& ONLINE) WWW.HISTORY.AC.UK/NEWS-EVENTS/EVENTS/BOOK-TALK - TEACHING-SLAVERY-NEW-APPROACHES-BRITAINS-COLONIAL-PAST

Join us this Thursday for a book talk Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past!

📍 Hybrid: Room 349, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📆 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk

This week I’ll present at the @cuhistorydept.bsky.social workshop on Black Europe: A Field on the Move in New York 🇺🇸 and the roundtable on methodologies in #BlackBritishHistory at @thenacbs.bsky.social in Montreal 🇨🇦 I look forward to our conversations on the need for Black European histories

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH BLACK BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR NACBS PARTICIPATION SEMINARS EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS: RETHINKING RACE IN MODERN BRITAIN SPEAKERS: ROB WATERS, SHAHMIMA AKHTAR, HANNAH ELIAS IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RESHAPING OF BRITISH PUBLIC LIFE, C.1970-PRESENT SPEAKERS: LIAM LIBURD LIGHTNING ROUND: THE POLITICS OF "BLACK BRITISH HISTORY": CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES, "USABLE" PASTS AND FREEDOM DREAMS SPEAKERS: OLIVIA WYATT

We will not have a seminar this month because many of our convenors will be at @thenacbs.bsky.social conference! Check out their papers on race and #BlackBritishHistory if you’ll be joining us in Montreal 🇨🇦
www.nacbs.org/conference

Researching the histories of race and ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History  - On History

In this On History blog, Gaverne Bennett and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of race and ethnicity

Join us for a #BlackHistoryMonth roundtable discussion on Processing the Past: New Histories of Black British Culture and Identity.

🎤 Rochelle Rowe, Teleica Kirkland, Désha Osbourne, and yours truly
📅 Friday 21st October
⏰ 17:00 - 18:30
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute - Room 2.55
🔗 bit.ly/4oyTGOP

Join us live at the IHR or online.
Register: tinyurl.com/2xt3th36
@carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

We aren’t hosting a November event as so many of the co-convenors will be speaking at NACBS, but you can book now for our December event will be a discussion of the new book ‘Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past.’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Late in posting about this, but we had an excellent set of Lightning Talks from PhD students and ECRs studying Black British History at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar this week. The future is bright! ⚡️

What a wonderful start to the 2025/26 IHR Black British History seminar series! We heard students present on a range of topics, ranging from the 1500s to the 1980s. I’m looking forward to seeing how their research progresses.
#BlackBritishHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Today! 👇🏿
#BlackBritishHistory

The booking form should now have an online option, but please let us know if you run into any further issues!

The booking form should now have an online option, but please let us know if you run into any further issues!

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #BlackBritishHistory

Thank you for bringing that to our attention! The event will be hybrid, and we’ll look into adding an online option immediately

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

We hope to see as many of you as possible at our Lightning Talks in Black British History: the first event of our academic year! Get in touch if you are a PGR or ECR who would like to present, and please circulate among students who may be interested in sharing their work for 3-5 minutes

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Can’t wait to show you what we have lined up! Follow the new IHR Black British History seminar series page 🥳🙌🏽

The IHR Black British History Seminar is now on Bluesky, thanks to @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social! Give a follow for updates:

Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀

@ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

Migration and Mobility History Call for Papers: IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility Seminar Taking place at the IHR Senate House and online, 10th February 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm. The IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility are coming together for a special edition of our seminar series to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs working on migration and mobility history. We invite submissions of 20 minute papers from PGRs and ECRs on the topic of migration and mobility (broadly defined), focusing on any period or place. This is an opportunity to share your research with, and recieve feedback from, established and emerging scholars working on migration and mobility studies. To apply, send abstracts of under 250 words, with a short bio, to Kathleen Commons at kabcommons@gmail.com by 5pm on 15th November.

Migration and Mobility History About the Seminars History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. Based at the Institute of Historical Research, it serves as an intellectual and social forum that connects, empowers, and supports the postgraduate community. The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history. The seminar seeks to attract papers on a diverse range of themes and periods in migration and mobility history, including the emerging field of pre-modern migration histories, and histories of migration within the Global South. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, working with sociologists, legal scholars, and geographers with an interest in historical migration and mobility. if you have any queries about this seminar, contact Kathleen at kabcommons@gmail.com

📢 New Seminar Series!

We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)