Olivia Wyatt

Really looking forward to this! Feel free to join us in person or online at the @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar series
#BlackBritishHistory

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH BLACK BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR THE 'WEST AFRICAN VILLAGE': ROMANCING SCOTTISHNESS AT THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1911 SEMINARS SPEAKER: DR ROCHELLE ROWE (EDINBURGH) THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2026, 5:30 PM (IN PERSON & ONLINE) HTTPS://WWW.HISTORY.AC.UK/NEWS-EVENTS/EVENTS/WEST-AFRICAN-VILLAGE-ROMANCING-SCOTTISHNESS-NATIONAL-

Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Rochelle Rowe: “The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911”

📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online)
📆 Thursday 19th March, 2026
⏰ 17:30
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🔔 Next Thursday 19 March:

Dr Rochelle Rowe (Edinburgh) will be speaking @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar on ‘The ‘West African Village’: Romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911.’

In person and online. Book now and join us if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain!
Get your tickets below:
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Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!

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III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history

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

📢 : There is still time to submit your proposal for the "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" symposium in Edinburgh. You might even get to hear me talk about Indian revolutionaries, Russian maximalists, and bomb plots in Edinburgh, Paris, and Muzaffarpur.

Against Pessimism Waseem Ahmed examines how Tony Benn's 2008 People Before Profit speech offers important lessons for political organising on the British Left today.

What lessons can a 2008 speech by Tony Benn offer for political organising on the British Left today?

Waseem Ahmed (@waseemahmed98.bsky.social) on Benn's 2008 People Before Profit speech.

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Interested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here:

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HEY! That's our absolutely fabulous Deanna Lyncook! @qmul.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social!

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 speakers: Deanna lyncook (queen mary & uwi cave hill) thursday, 22 december 2025, 5:30 pm (online only) https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/you-are-not-allow-yourselves-be-frightened-norman-manleys-visits-britain-transnational-care-post-war Institute of historical research black british history seminar

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

📍 Online only
📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Donate to The Young Historians Project, organized by Young Historians Project The Young Historians Project (YHP) is a UK–based collective which promotes the s… Young Historians Project needs your support for The Young Historians Project

By donating to our GoFundMe, you are not only helping us fund our projects, but you are also us fund the development of the young Black British people who choose to volunteer their time into helping these projects come to fruition.

Thank you!

#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿

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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

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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/...

It was a joy to meet with researchers from across the world. I also loved my panel’s intervention at NACBS: an ethical discussion of #BlackBritishHistory by eight Black/ mixed-race early career researchers. A visual reminder that Black people are the makers of history, and not simply its subjects.

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

Last week I returned to my home city to deliver a #BlackHistoryMonth lecture at Leeds Beckett University. Using oral histories, photography, and poetry alongside archival research, I explored the overlooked role of women within the Chapeltown Bonfire incident and community activism in the 1970s

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

Thank you for coming to listen! I’m so glad that you enjoyed the lecture

Dr Wyatt in front of her slide containing photographs from anti-racism protests in Leeds from the 1970s.

A fab BHM lecture from @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social on the Chapeltown Bonfire night incident of 1975. Wyatt situates elder Black women's activism on behalf of the Black youths on trial as part of caregiving in the community. More non-London Black history!!!

Today! 👇🏿
#BlackBritishHistory

This looks an interesting talk - here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the Chapeltown bonfire night events from 50 years ago. #BlackHistoryMonth #LeedsHistory

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