Noor Hashmi (she/her)

Congratulations! And the fact that it’s a graphic novel makes it so much more accessible for a wider audience, which is exactly what we need more of.

This is fantastic - I’ve added it to my reading list. Thanks for sharing! 😊

The way the transatlantic slave trade was taught in schools 10 years ago (if teachers ever bothered) was seriously concerning. It wasn’t until the final year of my undergraduate when I was taught it in depth. Hopefully things will have changed now, but I’d love to sit in on a History lesson myself

I remember making a teaching pack full of resources for teaching the histories of slavery during my undergraduate (as part of our public history module assessment). I love that there are now more resources like this so teachers don’t shy away from teaching it. There really is no excuse!

I remember making a teaching pack full of resources for teaching the histories of slavery during my undergraduate (as part of our public history module assessment). I love that there are now more resources like this so teachers don’t shy away from teaching it. There really is no excuse!

Not forgetting St Helena under the English East India Company, or the very first sugar slave plantation colonies of Madeira Islands and Sao Tome under the Portuguese.

This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work

Definitely doing something right - I need to head to Waterstones and pick up a copy asap! I’m very much looking forward to reading it (you know…for the ‘historically illiterate’ arguments 👀😊)

Forever and always a Springsteen fan🙌🏻

This just reminded me of Rik Mayall (in the best way!)

White heart-shaped birthday cake decorated with buttercream icing with “IN MY PRIME YEAR” written on top of it in chocolate icing

So I turned another year older yesterday (18th January). My age [redacted] is a prime number, hence this message on my cake😌😅

Determined to make this year a good one💪🏻

a woman is sitting at a table with a can of bud light in front of her Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with a can of bud light in front of her saying ‘cheers!’

Another year older, and hopefully wiser🥳🎉🥂

IT’S DERBY DAY!!!!! ⚽️

Manchester is RED 🔴🔴🔴

IT’S DERBY DAY!!!!! ⚽️

Manchester is RED 🔴🔴🔴

I've found writing as a historian of colonialism is quite emotionally exhausting. I've just spent the morning butchering 120 Indigenous people at the hands of the English. As a historian, an act of writing is an act of doing - we bring these people back to life and kill them again in our retelling.

Love this! Congratulations💕

Thanks for sharing, Lou, and Happy New Year! It sounds like a fascinating and exciting project, and I’m really looking forward to my future research on Barbados😊

HWJ in the Classroom From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.

To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879 Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

Felt tip liner is definitely the way to go!

The cover of my forthcoming book The Crown’s Silence, out with Mariner next month!

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

Great minds indeed 😄 Thanks so much, Lou! Best wishes to you too, and all the best for 2026 🎄✨

One of my favourite Christmas songs - ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town’ by Bruce Springsteen

Just woke up from a 10/10 nap, would recommend😌

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 🎄💝 ft. one of my favourite Xmas songs from one of my favourite artists ever🥂

This sounds great! Would love to have a read of this chapter if you’re able to share it as a pdf, please 😊

My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.

Cover will be added soon.

The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

That would be a fantastic comparison - I’d not thought of putting those maps side by side. Cheers for sharing, Lou!

YouTube video by Journey Through Time When America Tried BUT FAILED To Bring Segregation To Britain (Ep2)

📺 Watch here: youtu.be/a9UrGT_DqTw
🎧 Listen here: linktr.ee/journeythrou...

Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2