Deanna Lyncook

Looking forward to speaking about Manley and his visits to post-war Britain as part of the IHR Black British Seminar series… tickets below!

Deanna is fabulous! Worth attending if you can.

Thanks so much Sadiah 🫶🏾

Thank you so much Liesbeth 🫶🏾

Come and see @deannalyncook.bsky.social in action — calling in all the way from Barbados!

“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”, Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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

Picture of a speaker in front of an excited audience

A large excited audience

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.

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!

History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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...

If 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...

Death of University Chancellor Professor Emeritus Sir Geoff Palmer KT OBE Heriot-Watt University is saddened by the death of its esteemed Chancellor and renowned humanitarian, Professor Emeritus Sir Godfrey (Geoff) Palmer KT OBE.

I just learnt that our elder Sir Geoff Palmer has joined the ancestors. What a life he led and what a legacy.
May his passage be gentle.
www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

Touched down in T&T for the 2025 Association of Caribbean Historians conference, I’m buzzing! 🇹🇹

It 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.

Now 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*)

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.

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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.

Caribbean Studies Seminar Series

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!

Obviously 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

YouTube video by SchAdvStudy The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica

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 🫶🏾

🎞️ New Deal for Education Pamphlet, Prepared by the Ministry of Education Publication Branch, 1973.