Annabelle Gilmore
@bellamehistory.bsky.social
📖 Project Coordinator at Lambeth Palace Library
🖋️ Research background in Black British and Caribbean history in the long eighteenth century.
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🖋️ Research background in Black British and Caribbean history in the long eighteenth century.
[views my own]
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Join us for an open day with the chance to connect with and reflect on the Church of England's Black History at the Archives.
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Join us for an open day with the chance to connect with and reflect on the Church of England's Black History at the Archives.
Reposted by Annabelle Gilmore
This handbill makes a curiosity out of a young Black girl with the condition that today we call albinism, making her skin white and her hair blonde. We can be fairly confident that this handbill is referring to Amelia Newsham.
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This handbill makes a curiosity out of a young Black girl with the condition that today we call albinism, making her skin white and her hair blonde. We can be fairly confident that this handbill is referring to Amelia Newsham.
Reposted by Annabelle Gilmore
Reposted by Annabelle Gilmore
'The research by independent scholar Desirée Baptiste shows that George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, received profits from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations – a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery.' 1/3
New research reveals King George IV profited from slavery in Grenada
Experts say finding heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
'The research by independent scholar Desirée Baptiste shows that George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, received profits from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations – a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery.' 1/3
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!
Thank you to all the people who helped me along the way, especially my supervisors!
July 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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!
Thank you to all the people who helped me along the way, especially my supervisors!
Thank you for having me! I had a great time and some very interesting discussions!
Great to see the recording of @bellamehistory.bsky.social great talk on Black Histories and the Beckford Collection @long18thsem.bsky.social now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/i-s...
‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park
www.history.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thank you for having me! I had a great time and some very interesting discussions!
I will be talking all about my work in London for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series next month.
How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park
www.history.ac.uk
April 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I will be talking all about my work in London for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series next month.
How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
Adding to my reading list. The effects of slavery continue to have an impact today and some still reap the benefits of that forced labour.
Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery
This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Adding to my reading list. The effects of slavery continue to have an impact today and some still reap the benefits of that forced labour.
Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Check out my work in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society with Kristy Warren and Montaz Marché
bit.ly/3Y6IdM3
bit.ly/3Y6IdM3
Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-Eighteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries) | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-Eighteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries)
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November 15, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Check out my work in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society with Kristy Warren and Montaz Marché
bit.ly/3Y6IdM3
bit.ly/3Y6IdM3