Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC

An interdisciplinary network examining #18thC European empires. We interrogate Whiteness and power, and privilege Indigenous and Black perspectives.

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

Two things #18thC #twitterstorians can do to make #blacklivesmatter
1. Analysing #Enlightenment and race? Foreground the impact of these ideas on enslaved and colonised peoples.
2. Researching colonial space? Learn the Indigenous names of sovereign nations and places.

[Leah Astbury @leahastbury]

Delighted to announce that the 16th @wellcometrust Lecture in History of Medicine @CambridgeHPS will be given by @DrSashaTurner speaking about 'Doctors v Midwives: Caribbean Medical Encounters in the Age of Prenatal Abolition' 11 February 2021 4-5.30pm (GMT) on zoom. All welcome!

[Diana Paton @diana_paton]

Very excited about this, which I edited with @SenMattye!

[The London Archives @TheLdnArchives]

LMA is pleased to announce the publication of a new dataset, 'Switching the Lens - Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage, 1561 to 1840' to be published on 29 October > https://t.co/WDeJI2f0ZC

#SwitchingTheLens #BlackAndAsianLondoners

[NTU History @NTUHistory]

We are delighted to introduce Ep. 8 of Fidellithy Tan's @NTUHistory new podcast on the Spice Islands!

Pls retweet @AncientEconomy @global_podcast @Classical_Ideas @ColonialSpace @colonialhangovr
@UntoldLives @LaszloCHP @BodyCountPod @east_podcast @NTUsg

https://t.co/1nYlJuCXhZ

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

Live now!

[American Historical Review @AmHistReview]

ICYMI: The AHR’s June issue is now available online. This issue offers both a Forum and a Roundtable on the important place of Haitian history in the Atlantic World. https://t.co/NT6Ohvb4c5

[Diana Paton @diana_paton]

Want to find out more about Henry Dundas's relationship to slavery? Join us next Tuesday--we'll be discussing the abolition debates of the 1790s, the Joseph Knight case, and the British war against enslaved and indigenous peoples in the Caribbean.

[IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem]

We are pleased to anounce a 'bonus' summer seminar on 15 July at 17:15 via Zoom.

@DrRosiCarr will be speaking on friendship, whiteness, and colonial violence.

Please follow the link and click 'book now' if you would like to attend:

https://t.co/NpbConSCAd

[University of London Press @UoLPress]

Very proud announce this #FreeReadsFriday.

How the state has worked to systematically erase First Nations communities in North America. Now freely available to all #OpenAccess.

https://t.co/grLiZ8IOyI

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

And we stand with @PriyamvadaGopal against the racist, fragile Whiteness that is being hurled at her for telling the truth about empire and challenging its legacies

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

My tweet yesterday said whiteness is not special, not a criterion for making lives matter. I stand by that.

[Diana Paton @diana_paton]

The national conversation on slavery that @NicolaSturgeon rightly says Scotland needs should go beyond discussion of statues. It must also address the ongoing legacies of slavery in the Caribbean and at home. My @TheScotsman piece now w/out paywall https://t.co/6WEfICUEtL

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

https://t.co/Qvh9UgXlBh

[Diana Paton @diana_paton]

Discussion of slavery in Scotland needs to beyond statues to consider repairing the long term harm done to the Caribbean by slavery and its aftermath: me in The Scotsman today https://t.co/AYQs7TAjtT

[Diana Paton @diana_paton]

Slavery in Britain--A Hidden History: 'We need to hear these hard truths' says @davidolusoga. Also featuring me, @OlivetteOtele and others https://t.co/lqIlbTMXi0

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

Follow @AgeofRevs! They've been integrating and interrogating race for ages: https://t.co/VimXfy5jb4

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

All power to @RMF_Oxford who have stood their ground & persisted in the face of media jeering, condemnations from liberal worthies & luvvies, insults, accusations, comparisons to ISIS/Taliban (more of which are in the offing, no doubt). Power concedes nothing without a demand.

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

@FriendOfThurlow In fact, despite European guns, diseases, and racist ideology (which you repeat), Indigenous peoples resisted, adapted and survived.

[Colonial Spaces & Power in the 18thC @ColonialSpace]

Two things #18thC #twitterstorians can do to make #blacklivesmatter
1. Analysing #Enlightenment and race? Foreground the impact of these ideas on enslaved and colonised peoples.
2. Researching colonial space? Learn the Indigenous names of sovereign nations and places.

[Gabriella Szalay @Handwerkwissen]

@ColonialSpace @alicemarples We can also apply #SayTheirNames to our practice, as I suggest in this thread