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Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)
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‘He made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois. Most readers need to articulate the poems in order to understand their meaning: glancing at the page isn’t enough.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘He made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois. Most readers need to articulate the poems in order to understand their meaning: glancing at the page isn’t enough.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This is a free public event where, I hope, this rather fabulous dodo will be present. I’ll be in conversation with Rachel Webster, who is a curator at Manchester Museum. Places are very limited so please book early in you’re interested. Link to book on the page in the original post.
Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum
Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is a free public event where, I hope, this rather fabulous dodo will be present. I’ll be in conversation with Rachel Webster, who is a curator at Manchester Museum. Places are very limited so please book early in you’re interested. Link to book on the page in the original post.
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The “greatest obstacle to dictatorship is an educated populace. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
That’s why enslavers prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. Fascists burn books. Tyrants close universities.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That’s why enslavers prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. Fascists burn books. Tyrants close universities.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind | Robert Reich
Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The “greatest obstacle to dictatorship is an educated populace. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
That’s why enslavers prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. Fascists burn books. Tyrants close universities.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That’s why enslavers prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. Fascists burn books. Tyrants close universities.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sadiah Qureshi’s game-changing new book is a must-read!!!
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sadiah Qureshi’s game-changing new book is a must-read!!!
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Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract.
We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester.
Call for Papers
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract.
We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
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Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!
Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction
Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!
Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
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Went to an absolutely fabulous conference on Black Power led by the wonderful Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kerry Pimblott. There are so many excellent PhDs and first books in the works from a new cohort of scholars in the field. It’s so exciting to see them flourishing and being so roarsome!
February 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Went to an absolutely fabulous conference on Black Power led by the wonderful Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kerry Pimblott. There are so many excellent PhDs and first books in the works from a new cohort of scholars in the field. It’s so exciting to see them flourishing and being so roarsome!
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