Allegra

🇳🇬 PhD candidate @yale_history | Port cities | Piracy | 🌱& 🌊humanities | Extraction| African Art | 📚 | language learning 🇰🇷🇮🇹🇫🇷

[Allegra @AllegraHistory]

Excited to have updated my profile on the @yale_history department website. It’s been two months today since I started writing my dissertation full time. 📝🏛️

https://t.co/vWszG5W9Tv.

[Allegra @AllegraHistory]

New words added to the Oxford English Dictionary including Jand , Japa and Naija. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬Thanks to SOAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Kingsley Ugwuanyi 

https://t.co/z7rRslnUoh

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

How the Word for 'Tea' Traveled the World

[Ryan Cecil Jobson @RyanCecilJobson]

London friends! Join me next Monday for my first book talk at Ruby Cruel in Hackney. I’ll be joined in conversation by Trinidad and South London’s own @shaynedelande_

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

[Lolwe UK @LolweBooksUK]

We are OPEN! We have our Black History Month SALE still happening ! What a perfect way to spend your Sunday browsing books by your favourite Black authors! Visit us in Holdrons Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, Peckham.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Kowloon Walled City, likely the densest place ever built (est. 1.9 million people per square km)

A team of Japanese researchers spent time until the night before it was demolished measuring and drawing the building, creating this incredible section

[Allegra @AllegraHistory]

Please support this 🇳🇬🇬🇧entrepreneur with his business. This sauce is absolutely delicious.

GROWTH FUNDING FOR MY GOURMET SAUCE https://t.co/8nmHYRg2dT

[éte @etemi]

Supporting the young entrepreneur on his first business venture 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Pls send a token to encourage this young man!

GROWTH FUNDING FOR ARENMA’S GOURMET SAUCE https://t.co/ji3afBxs7Y

[dream living @HenaJBryan]

A personal slice of heaven:

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Peak writing conditions

[Allegra @AllegraHistory]

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Wale Lawal @WalleLawal]

Pleased to share that @republicjournal has received $200,000 from @OpenSociety to support making our coverage free for universities across West Africa. Students and academics have been some of our biggest supporters and I’m so excited about our plans! https://t.co/JvQZktZAOF

[Christopher @molochofficial]

oh? the historical period you study was one of rapid social transformation and stark contrasts? Yeah I bet it was.

[Dr. Bright Alozie @bryt_alozy]

𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓: My new book, “Petition Writing and Negotiations of Colonialism in Igboland, 1892-1960: African Voices in Ink” is finally in press with Lexington Books. Preorder now and get a 30% discount with the code: LXFANDF30

Sincerely,
Author.

[Pedro Ramos Pinto @pedroramospinto]

The great colleagues at ⁦@HistoryEcon⁩ in Paris ⁦@sciencespo⁩ are hiring for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in economic & environmental #history - a great opportunity! https://t.co/d3VMxP7KGB

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

325,437 students took #History GCSE in England, Wales & Northern Ireland in 2024. This is a 4.5% increase on 2023 and 25% up on 2018.

History is the 5th most popular GCSE subject of the 47 available this year. For those going on to study History A-Level: well done and good luck!

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

FINALLY! London's 1st Memorial to the Victims of Transatlantic Slavery will be designed by Khaleb Brooks. The cowry shell-inspired memorial will be placed at West India Quay, across the Museum of London Docklands where a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan was #slaveyarchive

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

A Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

In "The Suicide Archive," Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the “Arab Spring.” Read the intro now for free: https://t.co/b5lNFriaJp

[Samyak Ghosh 🌈 @GhoshSamyak]

Is there an essay that you would recommend to any undergrad majoring in History or those interested in Historical research? Just one, if you had to!

I’ll pick Saidiya Hartman’s “Venus in Two Acts”. How about you?

[ale (they/any) @alemgoa]

in june i graduated with my b.a. which means i finished my thesis. i was and still am very proud of this project—incomplete as it may be—and im looking forward to refining portions of it in the coming years. thank you to those of you who made this journey possible :)