Last night, Professor Jason Peacey delivered a truly magisterial Annual Holden Lecture at Senate House! ✨

His talk, Tickets and Trifles: Ephemeral Print and Restoration England, revealed how the most fleeting historical documents can offer the deepest insights into our past. 📜

Many congratulations to our very own Patrick Lantschner on the publication of The Cambridge Urban History of Europe! 🎉

Patrick co-edited the medieval and early modern volume of this three-volume project which has involved more than 120 authors from across the globe 📚✨

👉https://shorturl.at/1XA6u👈

We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨

🗓️ 14 Oct 2025
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm
📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London

All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN

🏏 Windrush Cricket by Dr Michael Collins — OUT NOW from @oxunipress.bsky.social!
Imperial culture, Caribbean migration & the remaking of postwar England.

📘 Get your copy: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

💸 Use code AUFLY30 for hardback at £21.00!

#Cricket #Caribbean #Empire #decolonisation #Britain

🚨 Fellowship Opportunities at UCL History 🚨

Are you an early career researcher ready to take the next step?

⭐ Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (2025–26)

Deadline: 4pm, Mon 6 Oct 2025

⭐British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: Mon 8 Sept 2025

👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/r1f9Q

📜 New World Royalists is a new digital humanities project from CSLBS, exploring 19th-century Port Royal Parish, Jamaica.⁠
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Through three creatively reconstructed stories, it sheds light on Black lives during and after British slavery.⁠

👉 Step into the past right here: shorturl.at/hO3dH

📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊

🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.

🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term

🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV

The UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship has reopened for applications - deadline: 30 April 2025! 📣

This scholarship supports BAME postgraduate research students at UCL, covering full tuition fees and providing a maintenance stipend for up to 3 years ✨

👉 Find out more and apply: shorturl.at/uCHqO

Join us for an evening with Professor Dame Sonia Boyce, award-winning artist & academic, as she presents “Crop Over: A Talk” - exploring Caribbean carnival traditions, resistance, and legacies of British slavery 💬

🌟Open to all🌟

👉Register here: shorturl.at/0p4cZ%F0%9F%...

We’re accepting applications for a Collaborative Doctoral Award on Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England & France – starting Oct 2025! 📖👹

💰 £21,237 stipend (+£600 top-up)

📅 Deadline: 5pm, 26 Feb 2025

Find our more and apply: shorturl.at/Wp543

Exciting news! 🎉

Prof John Sabapathy joins The English Historical Review (EHR) as an editor! As the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world, EHR has shaped the field since 1886, recently celebrating its 600th issue.

Congratulations @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social ! 👏📖

A great evening celebrating the launch of 'Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century' by José Lingna Nafafé 📖✨

Thank you to José, Michael Pope & Hélène Neveu Kringelbach for an insightful discussion on history, resistance & new perspectives 💬

📣 Excited about history? Join our Social and Historical Science Graduate Open Events to explore MA History, Public History, MARS, and Ancient History programs! 🏺📚

📅 Date: Saturday, 1 February 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00–15:00 GMT
🌐 Register here: shorturl.at/DXIeQ

🌟This year’s UCL History Neale Lecture will feature Professor Jo Van Steenbergen who will be speaking on ‘The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)’ 🌟

👉Find out more and book here: shorturl.at/fk6Ey