The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/...
Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Join us on a day full of new data of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database, presentations from researchers that are related to ESTA or the field of Indian Ocean slavery, and the introduction of TIDES.

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The Oct. issue of The William and Mary Quarterly is out now! It follows Dutch-trained soldiers to Jamestown, uncovers enslaved resistance in the Caribbean, revisits abolition-era debates through new eyes, and shows how Equiano’s reach went farther than previously known. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55884

Our final CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the year “Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean” takes place on 9 Dec w/ Dr Catie Peters @oieahc.bsky.social

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The @upmississippi.bsky.social flash sale is extended one more day. 50% off all books including, SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN for only $15! 🗃️🇭🇹

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More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”

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CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025:

25 Nov Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao

9 Dec Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean

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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

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Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀

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