Thanks! I'd recommend The Business of Beauty by Jessica Clarke.
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Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
Thanks! I'd recommend The Business of Beauty by Jessica Clarke.
14.07.2025 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Loved being on the #BetwixtTheSheets podcast!
@k8lister.bsky.social and I had a great conversation about Victorian ideas of race and beauty. Do give it a listen...
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Hey congrats! I have my copy!
19.05.2025 13:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0London friends! On May 13th Iβm going to be in conversation with @johnmerrick.bsky.social about Liverpool, obsolescence and what it means to write history at our present moment at the amazing Pelican House in Bethnal Green. There will be a bar and everything. pelicanhouse.org/event/liverp...
29.04.2025 19:16 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era.
Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
Our latest @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean seminar 'The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica' w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social & Sabrina Bowen (chair) is now available to watch online.
You can sign up for our next session on 29 April: shorturl.at/RweQd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H19r...
Poster image displaying an image of Ussher Fort with information on the exhibition below
Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.
06.05.2025 12:01 β π 13 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art.
'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'
Read full article hereππΎ
doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians ποΈwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...
18.03.2025 06:44 β π 25 π 26 π¬ 0 π 1We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.
24.03.2025 17:28 β π 42 π 36 π¬ 1 π 1Happy publication day to @hdiamond.bsky.social! JOSEPHINE BAKER'S SECRET WAR is out from Yale Books today
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