UK-St Helena Heritage Trust
@ukshheritage.bsky.social
The UK-St Helena Heritage Trust exists to raise awareness of and funds for the built and cultural heritage of the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, one of the UK's Overseas Territories.
https://www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/
https://www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/
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Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
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Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Emeritus Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
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A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
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Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
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New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks"
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
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Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks"
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
Tonight! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Tonight! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
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Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.
Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
bit.ly/StH0312
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Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
A Conservation Engineer For St Helena | UK-St Helena Heritage Trust (Powered by Donorbox)
Help us get a conservation engineer to St HelenaStop press! 5 November 2025. We are enormously grateful to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for pledging a magnificent £2,000 to this campaig...
donorbox.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
A Conservation Engineer For St Helena | UK-St Helena Heritage Trust (Powered by Donorbox)
Help us get a conservation engineer to St HelenaStop press! 5 November 2025. We are enormously grateful to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for pledging a magnificent £2,000 to this campaig...
donorbox.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications.
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...
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Really looking forward to this!
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else?
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Really looking forward to this!
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How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else?
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else?
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!
Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.
#StHelena #Slavery
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery
www.xavier.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
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How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Tonight! Wed, 12 Nov, 6pm UK time. A British military architect in the time of Napoleon. On a remote island in the South Atlantic. We love history! #StHelena
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tonight! Wed, 12 Nov, 6pm UK time. A British military architect in the time of Napoleon. On a remote island in the South Atlantic. We love history! #StHelena
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British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
British military architects in the time of #Napoleon.
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile.
When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211
£: FREE
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312
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What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
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@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course.
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
The 1789 French Revolution – not just a revolution in France
www.history.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course.
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling!
Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.
One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.
One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling!
Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.
One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk.
One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍
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Yay! We're nearing our fundraising target to get a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the magnificent High Knoll Fort. Please donate if you can. This is British heritage and world heritage. We need to save it!
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
A Conservation Engineer for St Helena's High Knoll Fort
Help us get a conservation engineer to St Helena. Some of St Helena's most important historic monuments need urgent repair and protection. We are fundraising to send a conservation-accredited structur...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Yay! We're nearing our fundraising target to get a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the magnificent High Knoll Fort. Please donate if you can. This is British heritage and world heritage. We need to save it!
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...
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In 1815, aged 25, already battle-hardened, Napoleon fanboy Anthony Emmett secured his dream job as commanding royal engineer on St Helena during the exile of his hero. Historian Peter Hicks uncovers his intriguing life: Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...
A Cosmopolitan Military Architect and Napoleon fan on St Helena
Anthony Emmett of the Royal Engineers was only about 25, but already much battle-scarred, when he was appointed commanding royal engineer on St Helena during Napoléon's exile. It may have been his dre...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In 1815, aged 25, already battle-hardened, Napoleon fanboy Anthony Emmett secured his dream job as commanding royal engineer on St Helena during the exile of his hero. Historian Peter Hicks uncovers his intriguing life: Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT.
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...
www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-cosmp...