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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

Photograph taken from above showing a man working at his laptop at the British Library.

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Andrew Williams @anilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@vrsimility.bsky.social Working on something Liverpool-ish. This is from a Liverpool burial register for 1755 - I know he was Mr Thomas Moseley, a silversmith, but not sure on his address. It seems to read Rad x Street at first glance. Nothing seems a good candidate on the 1765 map. Any ideas?

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just published a new piece for The Lion & the Dragon, the magazine of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. It dives into some colourful episodes of officer misconduct during the Napoleonic Wars. If duelling, disorder, and general drama are your thing, have a look: eamonnokeeffe1812.com/2026/01/28/a...

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A Most Rascally Corps? Duelling and Disorder in the 55th Foot

I was recently asked to write a short article about the 55th Regiment of Foot for The Lion & the Dragon, the magazine of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. Located in Carlisle Castle in n…

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII. @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social brill.com/display/book...

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Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World
War, Exile, and Repatriation
Andrew Williams

The forced repatriation of Chinese seamen at the end of the Second World War
from Liverpool, in Northwest England, was the subject of a long- form journalistic
investigation in 2021, published in The Guardian newspaper.1 A few weeks
later, Liverpool Labour mp Kim Johnson raised it in Parliament. She called
on the Conservative government to launch an inquiry into the affair and to
acknowledge that in the case of these men, and the families they left behind,
‘justice delayed’ was ‘justice denied.’2 In response, the Home Office – the
department responsible for immigration – pledged to investigate the actions
of its antecedents in conspiring to repatriate hundreds of Chinese men after
Britain had defeated fascism in Europe and Asia.
Liverpool’s Chinese community has always been centred in its Chinatown,
which is claimed to be the oldest in Europe, although substantive historical
investigations into this community are few and far between. Perhaps the best
account has been written by Maria Lin Wong, whom in 1989 published a history
based primarily on oral testimony.3 Gregory B. Lee, a Chinese studies scholar,
has published other research, approaching the history of the community from
a postcolonial studies perspective.4 Even fewer publications directly address
the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War. Wong
made only brief mention of it based on what she was told and would have been
unable to explore it any further as the archival sources had not been released
to the public at the time. John Belchem, in his valuable history of race relations
in twentieth- century Liverpool, did provide an account of the repatriation, but..

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Andrew Williams @anilliams.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Working on early 1700s Jamaica, what is the best and clearest phrase to use to succinctly refer to the 11-ish continental colonies of British America? Just "continental British America"? Any other ideas?

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Andrew Williams @anilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Some excellent merchants' marks at the Library Company of Philadelphia

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

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Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives

The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

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Andrew Williams @anilliams.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The sad loss of Trevor Burnard, Karl Watson, Roy Augier, and Pedro Welch in the past few months has been a real blow to Caribbean history

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon! brill.com/display/titl...

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Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949

"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Apr 2025 by Brill.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

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Bangor University Archives awarded Welsh Government grant for Digitisation of Penrhyn Jamaica Papers | Bangor University

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Andrew Williams @anilliams.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Gravestone of Archibald Monteath, the author of one of the few surviving Caribbean slave testimonies. Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/11/2024

‘If the painting was nothing more than a realistic portrait of an 18th-century Black scholar in his study, that would be extraordinary enough. It’s the earliest such image in Western art, the first self-presentation of a Black person as an intellectual.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

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