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UCL History retweeted
2 Jan 2025
🏏 In the latest instalment of our 2024 #PorticoMagazine review, Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) explores the social and political role of cricket: from a tool of empire to the “beating heart” of Caribbean social life in post-war Britain. bit.ly/3ZWTBK1
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UCL History retweeted
4 Dec 2024
And the winner of the Outstanding Community-Engaged Learning Award is…
our very own Anna Maguire!
@UCLHistory (how cool…to be at the Olympic Park wearing a medal…).
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UCL History retweeted
Well done to Dr @AndrewSeaton @UCLHistory for being shortlisted for this amazing prize, which is a tremendous achievement in itself 👏👏👏 and many, many congratulations to the winner, Joya Chatterji 🥳
2 Dec 2024
And that's a wrap! Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, Joya Chatterji, for her book Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, and to the brilliant shortlisted authors listed below:
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2 Dec 2024
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery and its legacies in their countries and regions.
🗓️2 December, 6-8:30pm
👉Book: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
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28 Nov 2024
Images as History Seminar Series: Africa in the US Cold War Photographic Archive 📷
Dr Kimberly Schreiber hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas with Professor Darren Newbury 🇺🇸
🗓️3 Dec, 6–8pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
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UCL History retweeted
27 Nov 2024
👉African Voices Against Slavery: Exhibition at UCL East👈
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery on 2 December, 6-8:30pm 💬
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UCL History retweeted
27 Nov 2024
The exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’ opens in the UCL East campus from 3-17 December.
🗓️Opening symposium on 3 December at 6pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/history/research/a…
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27 Nov 2024
👉African Voices Against Slavery: Exhibition at UCL East👈
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery on 2 December, 6-8:30pm 💬
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27 Nov 2024
The exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’ opens in the UCL East campus from 3-17 December.
🗓️Opening symposium on 3 December at 6pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/history/research/a…
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20 Nov 2024
This year's UCL History Neale Lecture will feature Professor Jo Van Steenbergen who will be speaking on 'The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)' 💬
👉Book here: ucl.ac.uk/history/events/202…
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19 Nov 2024
✨Professor Matthew J. Smith delivers the 2024 F.E.L. Priestley Distinguished lecture series in the History of Ideas at University College, University of Toronto, Canada on 12-14 November✨
The lectures were titled 'Three Island Overtures'.
Read more: shorturl.at/84JBl
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19 Nov 2024
Dr Robert Suits, our Lecturer in Environmental History, gave a brilliant taster lecture on ‘Beef and Industrialisation in the United States’ on our @UCLSocHistSci Undergraduate Taster Day last Saturday!🥩🇺🇸
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15 Nov 2024
Alexander Meckelburg (UCL) and Takele Merid (Institute of Ethiopian Studies) opened the exhibition “Ethiopian Abolitionist Voices” at Addis Ababa University!
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15 Nov 2024
The programme included research presentations by Yonas Ashine, Oljira Tujuba, Ahmed Hassen, and Takele Merid, keynote address by Teferi Mekonnen and public lecture by Giulia Bonacci 💬
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14 Nov 2024
Dr Fabian Krautwald (Lecturer in African History) has published a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the Germany's major daily newspapers 📰✨
faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist…
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UCL History retweeted
Are you a UCL Social Science Mid-Career Researcher? If so, join our new Coordinating Group and develop an activity programme that will identify the needs and challenges encountered by mid-career researchers, and find ways to address them.
tinyurl.com/2r4z4tre @UCLResearch
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UCL History retweeted
Did you know that cricket plays a significant role in the analysing the legacy of the British empire?
Dive into this insightful piece by Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) to learn about how the sport has shaped post-imperial history 🏏
@aftertheraj
buff.ly/3NIrzfH
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UCL History retweeted
Americans are heading to the polls on #2024election day today 🇺🇸 and it is no secret that gender and sexuality have become a major focus this election cycle.
Catch up on our panel event delving into this pressing issue: buff.ly/3xXRVWd
@uclspp @UCLHistory @UCLAmericas
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UCL History retweeted
3 Nov 2024
Do YOU love a Sunday morning debate about the funding model, and indeed the entire future of the NHS?! Well if so this debate is for you!
3 Nov 2024
‘It’s not the volume of money going in, or how we raise it, it’s what we do with it’ 👏👏👏
@BeaconRosie making the case for NHS reform on BBC Sunday Morning Live
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1 Nov 2024
AFRAB’s exhibition East African Voices Against Slavery’ was moved from Mombasa to Gede as part of the David Koi Day celebrations.
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1 Nov 2024
This year, David Koi Day has gained new traction as plans for a memorial are now taking shape.
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1 Nov 2024
Local TV Coverage 👉x.com/citizentvkenya/status/…
@MGLiebst
28 Oct 2024
Ukumbusho wa shujaa Kilifi:
Sherehe ya kumtuza David Koi yaandaliwa Kilifi. Koi anatambulika kwa juhudi za kukomesha utumwa. Viongozi wataka mnara wa ukumbusho kujengwa
#SemaNaCitizen @MKapombe
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