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Annabelle Gilmore

@bellamehistory.bsky.social
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📖 Project Coordinator at Lambeth Palace Library 🖋️ Research background in Black British and Caribbean history in the long eighteenth century. [views my own]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
⛵ New Exhibition Opens Today! ⛵ Mariners: Religion, Race and Empire at Lambeth Palace Library, in collaboration with the University of Bristol. 24 July – 11 September 2026. For more information, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/mariners-rel...
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Seminar klaxon! 📣 We're delighted to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the seminar series on Tuesday 30th June, 4pm-5pm BST. Sylvia will be giving a paper titled, 'Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Woman's Oral History of West Africa'. Sign up using the link below: womenshistorynetwork.org/join-us-for-...
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Join us for our next seminar, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa’ with Sylvia Arthur
We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa&…
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is the second in hopefully a long series of events that we are doing at Lambeth Palace Library. Please do join if you can!
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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Join us for Routes in the Records II on Saturday 11th April for a chance to connect with and reflect on the Church of England's Black History at the Archives.
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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Join us for an open day with the chance to connect with and reflect on the Church of England's Black History at the Archives.
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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This handbill makes a curiosity out of a young Black girl with the condition that today we call albinism, making her skin white and her hair blonde. We can be fairly confident that this handbill is referring to Amelia Newsham.
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Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Wake Productions
An AfroFuturist Education Project in the Black Radical Tradition
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
'The research by independent scholar Desirée Baptiste shows that George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, received profits from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations – a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery.' 1/3
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New research reveals King George IV profited from slavery in Grenada
Experts say finding heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yesterday I officially became Dr Annabelle Gilmore at the University of Birmingham 🎉 Thank you to all the people who helped me along the way, especially my supervisors!
Annabelle is sat on some steps in her doctoral graduation robes with the University of Birmingham clocktower, 'Old Joe', in the background.Annabelle is wearing doctoral graduation robes and reading the University of Birmingham graduation programme.
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thank you for having me! I had a great time and some very interesting discussions!
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I will be talking all about my work in London for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series next month. How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
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‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Adding to my reading list. The effects of slavery continue to have an impact today and some still reap the benefits of that forced labour. Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery
This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery
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Annabelle Gilmore @bellamehistory.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Check out my work in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society with Kristy Warren and Montaz Marché bit.ly/3Y6IdM3
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Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-Eighteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries) | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-Eighteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries)
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