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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Check out the poster and details of the upcoming 2026 CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship Colloquium, “The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy", organised by Dr Alice Parrinello! 10 June, 9:15am–6:15pm www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50911/

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 09/06/2026

Do you have questions about postgraduate study at Cambridge? 🙋 Our postgraduate international Q&A webinar series explores the ins and outs of applying for a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, with dedicated time to answer your burning questions. Register today: bit.ly/439Honp

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📜 Thursday 11 June · 2–3pm BST 📜 #LuanaReis (@princeton.edu) presents: "Lélia Gonzalez, Beatriz Nascimento, and the Poetics of Kilombo." Join us on #MSTeams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #Kilombo #Quilombo #LéliaGonzalez #BeatrizNascimento #Amefricanidade #CHoM #CamMarronage #Black

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Join Visiting Fellow Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University) and Patrick Bray (UCL) for an in-conversation event on Hoffmann's latest novel 'The Bone War: Towards a learned fiction'. 📕 🦴 9 June 5 - 6.30pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/3Q0KM0E

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Prof Eugenio Biagini elected to the Academia Europaea recognising his outstanding contributions to research 👏👏 Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.

Professor Eugenio Biagini elected to Academia Europaea. Professor of Modern and Contemporary History recognised by one of Europe’s most distinguished academic bodies

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Still time to register for our event on Thursday (in-person & virtual) on lessons on ageing from the early modern world.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On this day in 1802. Philomé Obin (Haitian, 1891 - 1986). Arrestation de Toussaint Louverture (1958, oil on canvas board).

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

TODAY, Thurs 4 June · 2–3pm BST #CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk): "From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization." MS Teams (#LinkInBio) #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, on feminist ethnography, women-led search collectives in Mexico, care and collective memory. 📆 Thu 11 June, 12:30pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Open to all!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🔗 More info here: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Explore new books from Cambridge historians: ➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social ➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social ➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social Discover more⬇️

New books from Cambridge historians: From ancient Rome to modern Britain, discover the latest titles

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Dr Jethro Calacday, Postdoctoral Affiliate in the History Faculty, has been awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 👏👏 SHAFR described the article as “a major contribution to U.S. foreign relations history…” Link below ⬇️

Dr Jethro A. E. A. Calacday wins US foreign relations prize

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

Attendees chatting at the Quentin Skinner Lecture.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Please join us on Thurs 4 June at 5pm when @mattinbiglari.bsky.social will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly with the World History Seminar) on 'Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation & Colonial Modernity, 1933-51'. Click for abstract and further details.

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Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-1951

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pm BST📜 Graham Nickerson, UNB (@discoverunb.bsky.social) on: "To be Made Majesties of..." — Black Loyalist communities in #NovaScotia & #NewBrunswick as sites of marronage. Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage #BlackLoyalist #BlackCanada #Canada

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#BlackBritishHistory Paul Robeson was presented by the British Soviet Society at Birmingham Town Hall on 21 May 1949, 77 years to the day. Ref: LP 22.41 #LibraryofBham #BlackBritHist

The front cover of a programme for a performance by Paul Robeson at Birmingham Town Hall on Saturday 21st May 1949. Below this is a photographic portrait of Paul Robeson. Beneath this is biographical detail about Paul Robeson. The price of the programme is at the bottom.

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Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Shah Cheragh Shrine and Mosque Complex in Shiraz, Iran. The complex is known especially for its fabulous interior of mirror mosaics, Shah Cheragh shrine is one of the most prominent sites of pilgrimage in Iran....

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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Conference on 'Filth and health': hygiene &sanitation in the Middle Ages Friday, 26 Jun 2026, 1100-1830, Great Hall, St Bartholomew the Great, EC1A 7BE Fundraising campaign for new loos & in memory of Prof Peter Fergusson, a great architectural historian greatstbarts.churchsuite.com/events/mytyw...

The British Archaeological Association, the Friends of Barts Heritage and the Friends of Great St Bartholomew are delighted to invite you to this event on Friday 26 June in aid of the fund-raising campaign for new loos at the church of Great St Bartholomew and in memory of Professor Peter Fergusson.

The conference will begin in the newly restored Great Hall at Bart's Hospital at 11 a.m. (registration from 10.30 a.m.), and will be followed by a drinks reception (with pay bar) at 5.30 p.m. in the Cloisters of the church.

The fee is £30. Tea and biscuits will be provided in the afternoon tea break, but delegates should find their own lunch. There are many suitable places in Smithfield.

Speakers will include Dr Jeremy Ashbee, Dr Alex Buchanan, Professor David Carpenter, Dr David Harrison, Dr Piers Mitchell, Julian Munby, Will Palin and Professor Carole Rawlcliffe .

All funds raised by the event will go towards The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of Great St Bartholomew's (charity no. 1163024) 900th appeal .

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/05/2026

The second session in the #HAP26 Summer Season is 'Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project' with Rachel Matthews (1pm, Weds 24 June, online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... Booking now and jointly hosted by partners The National Archives @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org 2/2

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Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project (HAP Summer Seminar)

Dr Rachel Matthews joins us to discuss the Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive Project.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22/05/2026

On this day in 1917, a mob of thousands of white people brutally lynched a Black man named Ell Persons in Memphis, Tennessee.

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May 22, 1917 | Thousands Lynch Ell Persons in Memphis, Tennessee

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

📣 Come to our Afro-Asian Connections evening! This networking event aims to promote academic collaboration between scholars from across the university who are studying the diverse array of engagements between Africa and Asia 15 June at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/3RdXedX

Afro-Asian Connections, a networking evening on 15 June.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Pennsylvania law required slaveholders to free their chattel after six months, so the country’s founding father tried to get cute and send his slaves south every six months to reset the clock. Martha Washington’s chief attendant said nope.

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s book, Never caught: the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave Ona Judge

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

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Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race

Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race in New York - Checkout. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines Thomas Jefferson’s complicated and often contradictory views on race and...

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

‪Cambridge Histories of Marronage workshop TODAY with @daroldcuba.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join the Catalysts for Decolonisation Research Lab for their upcoming events The annual lecture on 1 June will be given by Julian Go (Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago) Find out more and register at bit.ly/4tKDHPJ

20 May
Scholarship Denied: The Phelps Stokes Fund’s use of the ‘Race Relations’ paradigm to silence Du Bois’ critiques of racial capitalism
2-4.30pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP

27 May
Anticolonialism, race and violence in Basque radical nationalism (1892-1936)
3-4pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP

1 June, Annual Lecture
Race, Capital, Critique: For a theory of racial capitalism
2.30-5.30pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pmBST📜 @daroldcuba.bsky.social (Cam.ac.uk), #HistoryPhD candidate, @stjohnscollege.bsky.social: " #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TexasPurpleHullPea Festival & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies." Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 18/05/2026

250 years on, what is the legacy of the US Declaration of Independence? Everyone is welcome at this free event bringing together leading scholars, journalists, artists and politicians. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/th…

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The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW: 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25 A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller, charting the innovations, errors, rivalries and bankruptcies behind the 'book of books' Coming September 2026 tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So pleased/grateful that my HJ article has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize alongside such fantastic pieces from last year!

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Some news!

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sujit Sivasundaram’s Waves Across the South has received an Honourable Mention ("Accessit") in the inaugural Zeev Sternhell Prize for the History of the Revolution👏 The book was ranked 2nd among works published globally on the French Revolution and broader Age of Revolutions over the past 5 years.

Professor Sujit Sivasundaram recognised by inaugural Zeev Sternhell Prize. International Honour for Waves Across the South

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are thrilled to share our Easter Termcard! As always, if you have any questions or would like the link to join us remotely, please feel free to get in touch!

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Dearest Maroons, We are thrilled to share #CHoM's Easter 2026 Term Card! Join us every Thursday from 2-3pm BST on #MSTeams to explore the #HistoriesOfMarronage at @cam.ac.uk's @camhistory.bsky.social . See you on Thursday! #Maroon #Maroons #Marronage #History #Cambridge

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

WORKSHOP TODAY 👉 As part of a larger project on a Global Black Atlantic family, Professor Nemata Blyden (University of Virginia) will look at members of the family who settled in Liberia in the 19th century. 🔎 How can we understand their experience if looked at through the lens of marronage?

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📢 Approaching fast: join Professor Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews) next week for the first of the Seeley Lectures. These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history. Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

💫 25th anniversary event: Global History Lab’s Narrative Observatories in Action Bottom‑up, globally scaled social science in action, which explores narratives as a tool for understanding fracture and building connection 15 May 9.30-12.45 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4d8p2ZP

Global History Lab’s Narrative Observatories: Rapid response history in action, 15 May 2026.

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📜 Join us Thu 14 May · 2–3pm BST · #MSTeams Prof. #NemataBlyden (#UVA), Armstead L. Robinson Prof. of 19th-C African American History, presents: "'#BackToAfrica' as #Marronage: A Global Black Family in Liberia." All welcome: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Maroons #Cambridge

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War. 📅 22 May ⏲️ 9am-5pm 🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge Free, open to all 🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Cambridge American History Workshop Conference on Friday 22 May 2026, with a keynote by Dr Ben Zdencanovic (Assistant Professor of U.S. History) and the closing address by Professor Mia Bay (Paul Mellon Professor of American History)

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sending congrats to my brilliant colleagues on the new Oxford Illustrated History of the United States for their *starred review* in Library Journal, cannot wait for the book to hit the shelves next month

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 09/05/2026

happy birthday to me, and my birthday twin John Brown

Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by the American artist John Steuart Curry for the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. It is located on the east side of the second floor rotunda. On the north wall it depicts the abolitionist John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Revelation 1:8 can be seen. In his other hand he holds a rifle, referred to as the "Beecher's Bibles". He is in front of Union and Confederate soldiers, living and dead, with a tornado and a prairie fire approaching. Emigrants with covered wagons travel from east to west.

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Y’allsey @aisling206.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!” — John Brown

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John Brown: American Abolitionist

ALT: John Brown: American Abolitionist

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

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1. John Brown by W. E. Burghardt DuBois

2. The Legend of John Brown. A Biography and a History by Richard O. Boyer

3. Fire on the Mountain. What If John Brown Had Won At Harper's Ferry? The Classic SF Novel of a Black Utopia in the American South by Terry Bisson

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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 09/05/2026

Happy John Brown Day!

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In 1841 Mary Richardson married John Jones of North Carolina. They carried free papers when they settled in Chicago & Mr. Jones established a successful tailoring business. Active in abolitionist politics & voting rights campaigns, they hosted & dressed John Brown & crew en route to Harper’s Ferry.

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Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, 2-3pm (BST) for #CHoM: Dr. Johnhenry "Hank" Gonzalez, @camworldhistory.bsky.social will present "Fanchette and Gautiche: Two Cloaked Microhistories of Black Female Power During the Haitian Revolution." MSTeams: bit.ly/4et0s6O #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In celebration of the recent anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution (25th of April), Cambridge Centre member @pramospinto.bsky.social will be discussing 'Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution'. Drinks will be provided after the talk. 11 May 2026, 5pm, Trinity Hall, Bridgetower Room.

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 29/04/2026

Black women in the UK are almost three times more likely to die in, or just after, pregnancy than white women. These are not due to genetic differences. Societal stressors affect the body’s ability to function healthily during pregnancy. Read more: bit.ly/4ty0QWl

A person sits smiling with hands on their pregnant belly while a healthcare professional uses a stethoscope. Text above reads: "New Cambridge research - Stresses like racism may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die."

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

*Still time to register* "Our Daily Bread: The Making of Sacral Economies in Western Eurasia" International Workshop (30 April-2 May) @kingscollege.bsky.social 🔎 Explore the formation and transformation of post-Roman economies across Western Eurasia and the Mediterranean ⬇️⬇️

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In our latest blog post, Lotte Hughes and Katy Newell-Jones, explore some common myths about FGM/C and highlight how community-led education and engagement can drive lasting change. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/wYVe7xI

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