Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT
How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different!

Free webinar with author Colin Fox.
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Job Opportunity!

Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...

Thank you to the Friends of St Helena for inviting me to speak at their annual meeting where I discussed my PhD research, my recent trip to the island, and the family history I undertook while there. Also delighted to have been published in FoSH's journal, the Wirebird!

Reminder! Call for Papers for the School of History PGR Seminar closes next week (Monday 20th October). Apply here: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd #History #PGR #CfP

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Call for Papers! Applications to present at the University of Leeds' School of History Postgraduate Research Seminar for the 2025-26 year are now open. If you are a postgraduate with work-in-progress on any time period or aspect of historical study, please do apply: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd

Happy to share that my review of Mary Hicks' 'Captive Cosmopolitans; Black Mariners and the World of South
Atlantic Slavery' book has been published on H-Net, you can read here! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Looking forward to presenting a paper at the 'Voices of the Marginalised' conference in 2 weeks, based on some of my PhD research on 'liberated African' migration
www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

Home for the next month! So excited to be working with the Museum, National Trust and schools here on St Helena alongside my PhD research

Thank you to Dulwich College History Society for inviting me to speak on my research on Friday! It was great to meet some future historians & reflect on lots of interesting questions they had.