Edd Mair
@edwardmair.bsky.social
Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
Both happy and relieved to say I’ll be lecturing at @kingshistory.bsky.social for the next academic year!
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Both happy and relieved to say I’ll be lecturing at @kingshistory.bsky.social for the next academic year!
On my last few days in Cambridge. I’ll miss my college and faculty colleagues and all the great students I’ve taught. I will not miss the militant cyclists and the perpetual anxiety of wondering if I should be wearing a gown.
August 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
On my last few days in Cambridge. I’ll miss my college and faculty colleagues and all the great students I’ve taught. I will not miss the militant cyclists and the perpetual anxiety of wondering if I should be wearing a gown.
I was lucky enough to visit Joshua Tree yesterday and thankfully no one mentioned U2.
April 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I was lucky enough to visit Joshua Tree yesterday and thankfully no one mentioned U2.
First day of my Huntington Fellowship, doing research into abolitionist correspondence. If you’re in Pasadena, let’s meet up (particularly if you have a car)!
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
First day of my Huntington Fellowship, doing research into abolitionist correspondence. If you’re in Pasadena, let’s meet up (particularly if you have a car)!
Great to see former colleague and current friend @samwetherell.bsky.social launch his timely book on Liverpool in the city itself. Also looking forward to selling a recording of his statement that ‘Militant were not radical enough’ to the tabloids.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Great to see former colleague and current friend @samwetherell.bsky.social launch his timely book on Liverpool in the city itself. Also looking forward to selling a recording of his statement that ‘Militant were not radical enough’ to the tabloids.
Having a fun scroll through jobs.ac.uk.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Having a fun scroll through jobs.ac.uk.
Back to the book today. Beginning the big edit on the chapter that begins with an analysis of this image from the First Seminole War. The figure on the left is a Black Seminole and among the first visual depictions of one in American print culture.
January 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Back to the book today. Beginning the big edit on the chapter that begins with an analysis of this image from the First Seminole War. The figure on the left is a Black Seminole and among the first visual depictions of one in American print culture.
Another incentive: I'll briefly draw connections between settler colonialism and this chemical supply company, inexplicably named after a historic Seminole leader.
November 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Another incentive: I'll briefly draw connections between settler colonialism and this chemical supply company, inexplicably named after a historic Seminole leader.
Cambridge people - if on Thursday you find yourself longing to understand why Native Americans were a key component of abolitionist arguments, then may I humbly suggest this:
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Cambridge people - if on Thursday you find yourself longing to understand why Native Americans were a key component of abolitionist arguments, then may I humbly suggest this:
Who says the neoliberal university has no answers?
November 8, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Who says the neoliberal university has no answers?
FDR mastered the radio, Reagan mastered television. In 2024, we've found the new frontier of political communication.
September 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
FDR mastered the radio, Reagan mastered television. In 2024, we've found the new frontier of political communication.
Got loads of teaching and research admin to get done, so naturally I'm in the Usenet archive looking at what constituted for 'fake news' in 1983.
September 10, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Got loads of teaching and research admin to get done, so naturally I'm in the Usenet archive looking at what constituted for 'fake news' in 1983.
Last day in my office at York. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my 2 years in the History department, and I’ll miss the important (and not so important) conversations with colleagues that took place here.
September 2, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Last day in my office at York. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my 2 years in the History department, and I’ll miss the important (and not so important) conversations with colleagues that took place here.
Another chapter written! This one focussing on Florida as a beacon for fugitives from slavery during the 18th century. Also arguing how Florida was dominated by Indigenous and free Black communities, as this 1760s map of St. Augustine shows.
August 30, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Another chapter written! This one focussing on Florida as a beacon for fugitives from slavery during the 18th century. Also arguing how Florida was dominated by Indigenous and free Black communities, as this 1760s map of St. Augustine shows.
A request to the hivemind - what do people think this sentence says? It's from a deposition relating to the capture of Jane Wilson by Comanche warriors in 1853.
August 12, 2024 at 10:28 AM
A request to the hivemind - what do people think this sentence says? It's from a deposition relating to the capture of Jane Wilson by Comanche warriors in 1853.
Pleasant surprise to receive a copy of the latest edition of Ethnohistory, which includes my article on Black go-betweens in Florida.
April 16, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Pleasant surprise to receive a copy of the latest edition of Ethnohistory, which includes my article on Black go-betweens in Florida.
Anyone care to take a guess as to what film this was? Hint: not ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’.
February 7, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Anyone care to take a guess as to what film this was? Hint: not ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’.
Some interesting theories forwarded in this evangelical junk mail that came today.
January 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Some interesting theories forwarded in this evangelical junk mail that came today.