New Book!
Brooke Newman's The Crown's Silence
'The book reveals that by 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire, the British crown had become the world’s largest buyer of enslaved people, buying 13,000 men for the army for £900,000."
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Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place & Testimony in British Guiana
making the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible.
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'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.'
'20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.
Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
"James, an illiterate percussionist in the 18th Light Dragoons, was likely to have been born enslaved in Montserrat, the West Indies, in 1789. ... He was awarded the Waterloo Medal after being wounded fighting a band of Prussian soldiers who had deserted and tried to loot his officers’ belongings."
Great to see several SGSAH researchers presenting their work at this conference—including @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social & @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social. Wishing everyone a fantastic event!
Excited to finally be presenting my work on Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic wealth!
📢 WHS Research Bursary!
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding
🗃️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : “GLOBAL HISTORIES OF GENDER AND OLD AGE,” A Special Issue for the Journal of Women’s History
For more information on this great opportunity, go to our website: jwomenshistory.org/call-for-sub...
Writing White Lives: What compels people to investigate their ancestors’ role as slave-owners? How do they go about it? What do they hope that their research will achieve? And what has been the impact on them and their family?
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An important reminder that abolition did not eradicate Britain's ties to slavery. As the article states, enslaved labour continued in areas where slavery had not yet been abolished (eg. Cuba, Brazil). Glasgow engineering firms supported Cuban plantations post-abolition by supplying sugar machinery.
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
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Monochrome engraving of busy 19th-century dock scene, with the masts of many vessels in the background, framed by two street lamps, and a sparser foreground. 'The Broomielaw in the 1840s', from C. A. Oakley, The Second City (Glasgow: Blackie, 1967), p. 54.
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass gave his first speech in Scotland at Glasgow's City Hall. 'He did not mean to dispute the existence of much misery & suffering in this country; but he denied that they had slavery here'. bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
