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Jenny Shaw

@profjennyshaw.bsky.social

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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.

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Dec 3

Today is the official pub date for The Women of Rendezvous! It still feels surreal to hold it in my hands. It would not have happened without the amazing friends who got me over the finishing line nor the fab crew @uncpress.bsky.social
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
@dgershenowitz.bsky.social
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Red and blue cover book (The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery) standing upright on a white table with a stack of five books behind (not in focus)

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations, Randy! 🥳

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15d

Oh wow! (this is what happens when you try and take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical...)

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you Lou, I had no idea! (sabbatical-ing from social media while on sabbatical...)

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you, Alyssa!
(I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)

Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 25d

And congrats too @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on this super review of your book in the AHR, which calls it a "methodological tour de force"! 🗃️
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Jenny Shaw. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery.

In the summer of 1686, a “great and numerous family” sailed from Barbados to London. They included 2 enslaved African women, an English female servant, 11

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 29

They do! The cover is 🔥
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this reframing! 😭

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳
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Casey Schmidt’s book, THE PREDATORY SEA, resting on a brown wooden table

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

So, @profkfh.bsky.social,
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social

Two copies of Kim Hall’s fabulous book THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE on a white table with part of a green Xmas cactus visible in the background

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

This will be soooooo good! 🗃️

Pre-order available now
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

Amazing!!! So many congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 25

Huge sale! @uncpress.bsky.social is letting their amazing catalogue go for 50% off to celebrate their new website. But don’t dither - it’s 48 hours only! You can get all kinds of great books including THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS at half price with code 01NEWSITE50 🗃️

uncpress.org

Home - The University of North Carolina Press

uncpress.org

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

The same thing happened to me! It was probably only a few days until I got mine, but it felt like FOREVER 😆

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ummm of course!

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 11

Who could possibly have predicted this?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 11

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Jenny Shaw

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oh amazing! Thank you!

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you! 🙏🏻

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 28

Some must-read follow-ups on yesterday’s stories on so-called race science at Edinburgh University from @theguardian.com

This one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social covers the Chris Brand of it all but does so much more 1/2 🗃️

Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · Jul 28

More on that here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #Edinburghracereport

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 27

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!

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 27

I should say students protested, boycotted, and raised hell with Edinburgh administrators for years about the survey and about his racist views. And not much changed until 1997. Plus ça change... 3/3🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 27

It wasn't the purview of this report, but Edinburgh might take a look at more recent faculty like Brand. Who also made his students take the "Edinburgh Sociosexual Style Survey" for over a decade (and it is exactly as gross as the title suggests). 2/3 🗃️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Far-right may fund `racist' lecturer

Book ban raises stakes in campus row, reports Ros Wynne-Jones

www.independent.co.uk

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jul 27

Glad that Edinburgh has done this, but couldn't help thinking that when I arrived in 1996 "racist scientific theories" were still being taught by Chris Brand in the psychology department, and had been for twenty-five years. 1/3 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

www.theguardian.com

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