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PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985. @QMUL History. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
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Ahead of graduation, excited to hear from Virginia Davis about the history of the School of History @qmul.bsky.social. More than a century of excellence, and about 180 character sketches.
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Annabelle is sat on some steps in her doctoral graduation robes with the University of Birmingham clocktower, 'Old Joe', in the background.
Annabelle is wearing doctoral graduation robes and reading the University of Birmingham graduation programme.
Yesterday I officially became Dr Annabelle Gilmore at the University of Birmingham 🎉
Thank you to all the people who helped me along the way, especially my supervisors!
Association of Caribbean Historians you owe me nothing.
It's always an honour and a privilege to share my research with any audience but ACH was such a welcoming and affirming space. I had the best time and met some incredible scholars.
Thank you thank you, but that drink deserves all the praise!
26.06.2025 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
23.06.2025 12:55 — 👍 38 🔁 53 💬 0 📌 7If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events:
18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis...
26 June, Linnean Society, London
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu...
9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...
Touched down in T&T for the 2025 Association of Caribbean Historians conference, I’m buzzing! 🇹🇹
31.05.2025 19:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It would be great if commentators could stop providing free PR for the far-right as the next government. The threat is serious, but so much commentary feels like it is already platforming the worst of modern politics as inevitable while doing precious little to give space to meaningful alternatives.
13.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Now that we are on the long-forseeable "day after" I feel like we can easily adopt the Sivanandan reading on events...
"What Reform says today, the Tories say tomorrow, and Labour legislates on the day after"
(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)
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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".
Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
Yesterday, I interviewed former Army Correspondent Jay Roberts, who was with photographer Ron Haeberle at My Lai on March 16, 1968. Last month, I spent 10 days with Ron in My Lai.
For someone originally trained as a 19th century historian, it's a remarkable experience to talk to key eyewitnesses.
Delighted Sabrina Bowen @chase-dtp.bsky.social & @deannalyncook.bsky.social will host our Caribbean Studies Seminar w/ Amy Cottrill, incoming Leeds Uni PhD student, presenting on resistance & women in Tortola. @mbarcia24.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
shorturl.at/S4yfc
front of the leaflet: stop job cuts Protect jobs now. VOTE to ask management to commit to: • NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS • INCREASED VOLUNTARY PAYOUT AVAILABLE TO ALL • STOP OUTSOURCING IN-HOUSE ROLES • CAP SENIOR SALARIES AT £100,000
back fo the leaflet: Our job security and the university's future are at stake Departments have been asked to deliver cuts to improve financial targets. These cuts are being rushed through, without assessing the risks to the university and the workers, despite management declaring that Queen Mary is currently financially stable. There are already existing proposals for compulsory redundancies in some departments, while a voluntary severance scheme targets others. The joint campus unions have been alerted to more formal consultations being underway. What can we do? 1.JOIN a campus UNION 2. VOTE ONLINE BY 28TH APRIL (This is a necessary step before moving to the postal ballot. Check your mailbox) 3. POSTAL BALLOT will follow (Ensure your Union has your correct home address)
QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance.
Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot
It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure!
14.04.2025 10:12 — 👍 676 🔁 110 💬 2 📌 2Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
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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...
Spent an amazing fortnight in St Kitts conducting archival research and interviews for my PhD thesis, a huge thank you to @qmul.ac.uk PGR Doctoral College fund for funding this trip and to staff in the school of History that supported the application 🫶🏾
09.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎞️ New Deal for Education Pamphlet, Prepared by the Ministry of Education Publication Branch, 1973.
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Speaking tomorrow at the next @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean Seminar.
‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica.
🔗 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib...
@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
There's still time to sign up for our next Caribbean Seminar w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. Chair: Sabrina Bowen
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
A poster for ADOLESCENCE on Netflix
ADOLESCENCE on Netflix is extraordinary television. Filmmaking of the highest order. Pretty much every single creative decision is perfect.
Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Meme of Academic Coach Taylor with the advice: ‘You know what a first book is? Practice for a better one’. Coach Taylor appears to be pleading with the player to put everything into perspective, as all authors need to do.
Front cover of Vanished. Features an ornate frame inside which there is a nineteenth-century print. In the foreground are a turbaned Indian man astride an Asian elephant, and Native and settler, and pine tree. In mid frame, a mastodon skeleton towers over all the other subjects. In the background is a mountainous landscape, with a river flowing through it. In the sky, there is a lonely passenger pigeon. At the top, the sky, author name, and book title are are framed by leaves intruding into the frame.
Contents page of the book. Prologue: Extinction’s Pasts Part One: Peopling Extinction 1. Exit, Pursued by a Mastodon 2. The Last of her People 3. The Dispossessor’s Lament 4. Humans before Humans 5. Daisy’s Dying Legacy Part Two: Empire’s Endlings 6. Red Alert! 7. Catastrophe Strikes 8. Pinosaur Redux 9. Martha’s Resurrection 10. Hope for Leviathan Epilogue: Extinction’s Futures
Four advance reviews for Vanished as follows: Illuminating and disturbing in equal measure. A poignant and powerfully written account of the intellectual revolution that birthed the concept of extinction; a concept deployed to both justify and animate colonialism and even extermination. A vital and important book -- David Olusoga A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope, Vanished is an intellectually acute history of both the idea and the reality of extinction. In a series of fascinating examples ranging from the fates of entire peoples to the remains of a single bird in a museum, Qureshi illumines how our ideas of extinction have been forged and shaped by myriad things, from the intellectual debates of eighteenth-century naturalists to the brutal history of colonialism and the political context of the Cold War. I learned so much from Vanished and am so grateful for it -- Helen Macdonald A compelling homage to living and extinct beings, Qureshi’s masterpiece is a superbly written, urgent and heart racing volume. Unweaving the threads of centuries of teleological explanations, imperial scientific approaches and offering a new path to understanding mass extinction is a stroke of genius. Vanished is enthralling, devastating and yet empowering -- Olivette Otele One of our most innovative historians guides us with grace, humility and conviction through the daunting, tangled thickets of species extinction and human extermination. Qureshi warns us that scientific advancement and enlightenment are not necessarily compatible but encourages us that they can be -- Alan Lester
T-80 days, but roaring and ready to land!
A huge thanks to some truly roarsome peeps for reading and sharing their kind words:
@davidolusoga.bsky.social
@hjm.bsky.social
@historianmemory.bsky.social
@alanlester.bsky.social
Please do share.
Info & preorder links @ www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...
I’m going to borrow “soulless serpents” if you don’t mind. I guess we shouldn’t be shocked at this point but this got me
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They cannot be serious?! time.com/7265106/dere...
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From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory
Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025
🗓️ 6th March
⏰ 17:30
📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01
www.history.ac.uk/events/black...
