Jenny Shaw
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Historian in Roll Tide country. All things early modern Caribbean. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery out now with UNC Press. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Congratulations, Randy! 🥳
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Congratulations, Randy! 🥳
Oh wow! (this is what happens when you try and take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical...)
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Oh wow! (this is what happens when you try and take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical...)
Thank you Lou, I had no idea! (sabbatical-ing from social media while on sabbatical...)
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thank you Lou, I had no idea! (sabbatical-ing from social media while on sabbatical...)
They do! The cover is 🔥
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)
August 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
They do! The cover is 🔥
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)
I love this reframing! 😭
August 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I love this reframing! 😭
Amazing!!! So many congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳
August 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Amazing!!! So many congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳
The same thing happened to me! It was probably only a few days until I got mine, but it felt like FOREVER 😆
August 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The same thing happened to me! It was probably only a few days until I got mine, but it felt like FOREVER 😆
Oh amazing! Thank you!
August 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh amazing! Thank you!
And this one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social and @severincarrell.bsky.social discusses the grim history of Edinburgh University’s “skull room” which includes those of two mixed-race brothers from Barbados. Difficult reading but great reporting 2/2 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science
Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
And this one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social and @severincarrell.bsky.social discusses the grim history of Edinburgh University’s “skull room” which includes those of two mixed-race brothers from Barbados. Difficult reading but great reporting 2/2 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Oh will do! A friend and I were messaging about it this morning (she actually did Psychology) and we were wondered if there was something more in the works!
July 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Oh will do! A friend and I were messaging about it this morning (she actually did Psychology) and we were wondered if there was something more in the works!