Brooke Newman
@brookenewman.bsky.social
Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
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Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Oh my…the poor timing on this one. Andrew M-W formerly known as Prince has ensured that's not gonna happen. Not to mention all the rest of the manacled skeletons in the royal closets.
February 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Oh my…the poor timing on this one. Andrew M-W formerly known as Prince has ensured that's not gonna happen. Not to mention all the rest of the manacled skeletons in the royal closets.
Out today! Historian @gogogomalley.bsky.social has written a fantastic new book: THE ESCAPES OF DAVID GEORGE. Check it out! 👇📚#slaveryarchive
February 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Out today! Historian @gogogomalley.bsky.social has written a fantastic new book: THE ESCAPES OF DAVID GEORGE. Check it out! 👇📚#slaveryarchive
As the mother of two teenage girls, I’m appalled by this claim. Teenagers may appear physically mature, but they are still CHILDREN—legally, developmentally, and ethically. Minimizing that reality is dangerous.
Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.
February 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
As the mother of two teenage girls, I’m appalled by this claim. Teenagers may appear physically mature, but they are still CHILDREN—legally, developmentally, and ethically. Minimizing that reality is dangerous.
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Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive
February 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive
👎 He may be cute, but Punxsutawney Phil needs to STFU. ☀️
February 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
👎 He may be cute, but Punxsutawney Phil needs to STFU. ☀️
I would love to see you at Politics & Prose on Connecticut Ave. this Wednesday at 7pm as I discuss my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 with historian @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social —Join us!
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Brooke N. Newman — The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas - with Cassandra Good — at Conn Ave
For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.
politics-prose.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I would love to see you at Politics & Prose on Connecticut Ave. this Wednesday at 7pm as I discuss my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 with historian @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social —Join us!
politics-prose.com/brooke-n-new...
politics-prose.com/brooke-n-new...
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So much for the party of individual freedom and small government. The Republican Party is now all in on the police state.
Just to be clear, immigrants are not “invaders” and people standing up for human rights are not “traitors.” People who defend state violence ARE betraying American values.
Just to be clear, immigrants are not “invaders” and people standing up for human rights are not “traitors.” People who defend state violence ARE betraying American values.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
So much for the party of individual freedom and small government. The Republican Party is now all in on the police state.
Just to be clear, immigrants are not “invaders” and people standing up for human rights are not “traitors.” People who defend state violence ARE betraying American values.
Just to be clear, immigrants are not “invaders” and people standing up for human rights are not “traitors.” People who defend state violence ARE betraying American values.
“We should confront this history and not dismiss it as shameful. Because much of the past is shameful, and we disagree with many things our ancestors did, but we still need to talk about it and learn from it.” www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Brooke Newman, historiadora: "La monarquía británica se benefició de la esclavitud durante siglos y es necesario que lo reconozca"
La historiadora acaba de publicar 'El silencio de la corona', donde documenta los lazos de la monarquía británica con la trata de personas durante generaciones mientras ayudaba a esparcir a extender l...
www.eldiario.es
February 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
“We should confront this history and not dismiss it as shameful. Because much of the past is shameful, and we disagree with many things our ancestors did, but we still need to talk about it and learn from it.” www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Reposted by Brooke Newman
Mi entrevista con @brookenewman.bsky.social, historiadora que acaba de publicar ‘The Crown’s Silence’: "La monarquía británica se benefició de la esclavitud durante siglos y es necesario que lo reconozca" www.eldiario.es/1_c590e9?utm...
Brooke Newman, historiadora: "La monarquía británica se benefició de la esclavitud durante siglos y es necesario que lo reconozca"
La historiadora acaba de publicar 'El silencio de la corona', donde documenta los lazos de la monarquía británica con la trata de personas durante generaciones mientras ayudaba a esparcir a extender l...
www.eldiario.es
February 2, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Mi entrevista con @brookenewman.bsky.social, historiadora que acaba de publicar ‘The Crown’s Silence’: "La monarquía británica se benefició de la esclavitud durante siglos y es necesario que lo reconozca" www.eldiario.es/1_c590e9?utm...
THE CROWN'S SILENCE mentioned on NPR News Now this morning, 9am EST! The 5-minute global news roundup, starting at the 3:48 minute mark. www.npr.org/podcasts/500...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:18 PM
THE CROWN'S SILENCE mentioned on NPR News Now this morning, 9am EST! The 5-minute global news roundup, starting at the 3:48 minute mark. www.npr.org/podcasts/500...
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The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it.
Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community.
It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.
Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community.
It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it.
Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community.
It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.
Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community.
It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.
👇 Also add “women are to be exploited & forced to reproduce”
The reactionary right has collectively written a trillion column inches on "whatever happened to discussing bold new ideas?" - and literally the only "ideas" they've ever had are "rich people should own everything" and "blame foreigners"
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
👇 Also add “women are to be exploited & forced to reproduce”
As a Texan by birth, I’d like to say to fellow Texans who made this happen: I salute you! Keep making good trouble. 🗳️
Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
As a Texan by birth, I’d like to say to fellow Texans who made this happen: I salute you! Keep making good trouble. 🗳️
“The Crown was not a passive beneficiary of slavery, nor a reluctant overseer, but an active architect, financier & legitimising force behind one of the greatest crimes in human history.The scandal is both what the monarchy did & what it has refused to say ever since.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
Empire by Omission
by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and...
slguardian.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
“The Crown was not a passive beneficiary of slavery, nor a reluctant overseer, but an active architect, financier & legitimising force behind one of the greatest crimes in human history.The scandal is both what the monarchy did & what it has refused to say ever since.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
Empire by Omission
by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and...
slguardian.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 AM
“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
“You can dispute Newman’s interpretations or tone. But the move she makes is decisive: she shifts the debate from emotion to ownership, from attitudes to command structures, from guilt to institutional inheritance.That is why the response has been so fierce.” medium.com/@evansd66/ki...
King Charles’ guilty secret
Slavery, the British crown, and the need for reparations
medium.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
“You can dispute Newman’s interpretations or tone. But the move she makes is decisive: she shifts the debate from emotion to ownership, from attitudes to command structures, from guilt to institutional inheritance.That is why the response has been so fierce.” medium.com/@evansd66/ki...
Being reviewed in the same issue of the LARB as George Saunders (big fan!!) is pretty sweet. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Being reviewed in the same issue of the LARB as George Saunders (big fan!!) is pretty sweet. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Was on LBC Radio live this morning on my way to Heathrow (goodbye 👋London!) and had a great conversation about THE CROWN’S SILENCE and potential next steps. Here’s a brief clip of my comments. 😆👇
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Was on LBC Radio live this morning on my way to Heathrow (goodbye 👋London!) and had a great conversation about THE CROWN’S SILENCE and potential next steps. Here’s a brief clip of my comments. 😆👇
The Waterstones event was fantastic—standing room only! I’m grateful to everyone who attended and asked great questions about THE CROWN’S Silence. I’m especially grateful to
@bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for serving as my conversation partner and making good trouble day in and day out.
@bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for serving as my conversation partner and making good trouble day in and day out.
January 30, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The Waterstones event was fantastic—standing room only! I’m grateful to everyone who attended and asked great questions about THE CROWN’S Silence. I’m especially grateful to
@bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for serving as my conversation partner and making good trouble day in and day out.
@bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for serving as my conversation partner and making good trouble day in and day out.
Waterstones book event for THE CROWN’S SILENCE starting soon! @gowerst-books.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @marinerbooks.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Waterstones book event for THE CROWN’S SILENCE starting soon! @gowerst-books.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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Started reading THE CROWN’s SILENCE by @brookenewman.bsky.social on the The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas.
Rave reviews and highly recommended by @sathnam.bsky.social ; @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social ; Marcus Rediker; Corine Fowler; many others
I recommend it!
Rave reviews and highly recommended by @sathnam.bsky.social ; @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social ; Marcus Rediker; Corine Fowler; many others
I recommend it!
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Started reading THE CROWN’s SILENCE by @brookenewman.bsky.social on the The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas.
Rave reviews and highly recommended by @sathnam.bsky.social ; @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social ; Marcus Rediker; Corine Fowler; many others
I recommend it!
Rave reviews and highly recommended by @sathnam.bsky.social ; @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social ; Marcus Rediker; Corine Fowler; many others
I recommend it!
” In The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas, Newman describes centuries of royal entanglement in the slave trade and urges King Charles III—himself the descendant of slave owners—at last to apologize formally.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/crow...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/crow...
A Slave Empire | Los Angeles Review of Books
Brooke N. Newman’s ‘The Crown’s Silence’ dives into the long history of transatlantic atrocities committed by Charles III’s ancestors in the name of empire.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:48 AM
” In The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas, Newman describes centuries of royal entanglement in the slave trade and urges King Charles III—himself the descendant of slave owners—at last to apologize formally.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/crow...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/crow...