This is the story of George Freeman: enslaved in West Africa, 'liberated' in Sierra Leone, and taken to live in 1812 Berkshire.
My new article for Slavery & Abolition uncovers his life, and the difficulty of researching 'imperceptible' lives in the archive
https://t.co/pw12EbYPhQ
'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal
@HistoryWO
It proposes a conversation between animal history and decolonizing methods.
https://t.co/KGrp3Vm1Eu
📢📢📢@HakluytSociety Essay ECR Prize 2025
Essays (6k-8k) are invited on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society.
1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. Enter by 1/3/25
https://t.co/pCMbSLqGNp
PhD opportunity: M4C CDA "Editing Empire: The Hakluyt Society in (Post) imperial Britain, 1846 to the Present".
Apply now to start your PhD at @WarwickHistory and @RGS_IBG in autumn 2025. Deadline 13 January 2025.
https://t.co/EdNIKwRRus
My article based on the PROS archive @MRCWarwick first presented at the MRC@50 day conference is finally published 🥳
If you'd like to have a read, follow the link in the post below (entirely open access!), and scroll all the way down to page 124.
So thrilled that our MA student, who spent several years researching a biography of Capt James Fitzjames, is key to this remarkable discovery. Her research connected the Canadian scholars with Fitzjames' descendant. Congratulations, Fabienne! 'Finding Fitzjames', indeed!
I’m pleased to share that I have a new peer-reviewed article out now, with the Journal of History about Chesapeake Algonquian nations shaping moral insecurity to colonization in the Virginia Company (1606-1624). Please reach out if you need access.
https://t.co/Dvt58OBi69
@MsKerryApps @BerksArchives@UniRdg_History Isn’t it!! The detail is great too; stuff like the ‘grey area’ in the middle that represents areas of his life we have less archival info for (I pestered the artist with many questions can you tell)
Amazing artwork & writing on display at @BerksArchives today - inspired by local schoolchildren’s responses to George’s life story.
(Art by Euan Cook, writing/poetry by Maisie Crittenden; joint project with RBA, @UniRdg_History & local primaries)
This is the story of George Freeman: enslaved in West Africa, 'liberated' in Sierra Leone, and taken to live in 1812 Berkshire.
My new article for Slavery & Abolition uncovers his life, and the difficulty of researching 'imperceptible' lives in the archive
https://t.co/pw12EbYPhQ
Could you be our next Collections Officer (Student Engagement)?
If you have a passion for engaging students with archive and rare book collections, take a look at this role:
#archives#rarebooks#teaching#collections
https://t.co/rHlpdQCLqo
Colonialism, smuggling, port towns and pirates - how has the Atlantic's unique geography affected world history? Join us at the Atlantic Geographies workshop as we discuss, @UniRdg_History on 13 Sept - sign up here! https://t.co/MYWlAbrUlP
STOP! What are YOU doing next week?
Come join us on Friday 13 Sept (its your lucky day) for the 'Atlantic Geographies' workshop, in person* at @UniRdg_History or online. Sign up at the link!
*there will be cake
Colonialism, smuggling, port towns and pirates - how has the Atlantic's unique geography affected world history? Join us at the Atlantic Geographies workshop as we discuss, @UniRdg_History on 13 Sept - sign up here! https://t.co/MYWlAbrUlP