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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Meet the Executive of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) Secretary – Deanna Lyncook #SocietyForCaribbeanStudies #CaribbeanResearch #CaribbeanScholarship #CaribbeanAcademia #CaribbeanVoices

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Join us at our LAST CLACS Caribbean Studies seminar of this academic year! Tracing Dutch Caribbean Migrants in Black Radical Encounters w/ Margo Groenewoud. Kindly supported by @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social colleagues @deannalyncook.bsky.social // @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Caribbean Studies Seminar

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Looking forward to speaking about Manley and his visits to post-war Britain as part of the IHR Black British Seminar series… tickets below!

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Deanna is fabulous! Worth attending if you can.

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Come and see @deannalyncook.bsky.social in action — calling in all the way from Barbados!

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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”, Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀 @ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Ahead of graduation, excited to hear from Virginia Davis about the history of the School of History @qmul.bsky.social. More than a century of excellence, and about 180 character sketches.

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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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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Association of Caribbean Historians you owe me nothing. It's always an honour and a privilege to share my research with any audience but ACH was such a welcoming and affirming space. I had the best time and met some incredible scholars.

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thank you thank you, but that drink deserves all the praise!

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Touched down in T&T for the 2025 Association of Caribbean Historians conference, I’m buzzing! 🇹🇹

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It would be great if commentators could stop providing free PR for the far-right as the next government. The threat is serious, but so much commentary feels like it is already platforming the worst of modern politics as inevitable while doing precious little to give space to meaningful alternatives.

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Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Now that we are on the long-forseeable "day after" I feel like we can easily adopt the Sivanandan reading on events... "What Reform says today, the Tories say tomorrow, and Labour legislates on the day after"

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yesterday, I interviewed former Army Correspondent Jay Roberts, who was with photographer Ron Haeberle at My Lai on March 16, 1968. Last month, I spent 10 days with Ron in My Lai. For someone originally trained as a 19th century historian, it's a remarkable experience to talk to key eyewitnesses.

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Delighted Sabrina Bowen @chase-dtp.bsky.social & @deannalyncook.bsky.social will host our Caribbean Studies Seminar w/ Amy Cottrill, incoming Leeds Uni PhD student, presenting on resistance & women in Tortola. @mbarcia24.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social shorturl.at/S4yfc

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance. Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot

front of the leaflet: stop job cuts
Protect jobs now. VOTE to ask management to commit to:
• NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS • INCREASED VOLUNTARY PAYOUT AVAILABLE TO ALL
• STOP OUTSOURCING IN-HOUSE ROLES
• CAP SENIOR SALARIES AT £100,000

back fo the leaflet:
Our job security and the university's
future are at stake
Departments have been asked to deliver cuts to improve financial targets. These cuts are being rushed through, without assessing the risks to the university and the workers, despite management declaring that Queen Mary is currently financially stable.
There are already existing proposals for compulsory redundancies in some departments, while a voluntary severance scheme targets others. The joint campus unions have been alerted to more formal consultations being underway.

What can we do?
1.JOIN a campus UNION
2. VOTE ONLINE BY 28TH APRIL
(This is a necessary step before moving to the postal ballot. Check your mailbox)
3. POSTAL BALLOT will follow
(Ensure your Union has your correct home address)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Our latest @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean seminar 'The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica' w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social & Sabrina Bowen (chair) is now available to watch online. You can sign up for our next session on 29 April: shorturl.at/RweQd www.youtube.com/watch?v=H19r...

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The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Spent an amazing fortnight in St Kitts conducting archival research and interviews for my PhD thesis, a huge thank you to @qmul.ac.uk PGR Doctoral College fund for funding this trip and to staff in the school of History that supported the application 🫶🏾

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Speaking tomorrow at the next @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean Seminar. ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. 🔗 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

There's still time to sign up for our next Caribbean Seminar w/ @deannalyncook.bsky.social ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. Chair: Sabrina Bowen ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

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Caribbean Studies Seminar Series

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ADOLESCENCE on Netflix is extraordinary television. Filmmaking of the highest order. Pretty much every single creative decision is perfect. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

T-80 days, but roaring and ready to land! A huge thanks to some truly roarsome peeps for reading and sharing their kind words: @davidolusoga.bsky.social @hjm.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social Please do share. Info & preorder links @ www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...

Meme of Academic Coach Taylor with the advice: ‘You know what a first book is? Practice for a better one’. Coach Taylor appears to be pleading with the player to put everything into perspective, as all authors need to do.

Front cover of Vanished. Features an ornate frame inside which there is a nineteenth-century print. In the foreground are a turbaned Indian man astride an Asian elephant, and Native and settler, and pine tree. In mid frame, a mastodon skeleton towers over all the other subjects. In the background is a mountainous landscape, with a river flowing through it. In the sky, there is a lonely passenger pigeon. At the top, the sky, author name, and book title are are framed by leaves intruding into the frame.

Contents page of the book.
Prologue: Extinction’s Pasts
Part One: Peopling Extinction
1. Exit, Pursued by a Mastodon
2. The Last of her People
3. The Dispossessor’s Lament
4. Humans before Humans
5. Daisy’s Dying Legacy
Part Two: Empire’s Endlings
6. Red Alert!
7. Catastrophe Strikes
8. Pinosaur Redux
9. Martha’s Resurrection
10. Hope for Leviathan
Epilogue: Extinction’s Futures

Four advance reviews for Vanished as follows:

Illuminating and disturbing in equal measure. A poignant and powerfully written account of the intellectual revolution that birthed the concept of extinction; a concept deployed to both justify and animate colonialism and even extermination. A vital and important book -- David Olusoga

A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope, Vanished is an intellectually acute history of both the idea and the reality of extinction. In a series of fascinating examples ranging from the fates of entire peoples to the remains of a single bird in a museum, Qureshi illumines how our ideas of extinction have been forged and shaped by myriad things, from the intellectual debates of eighteenth-century naturalists to the brutal history of colonialism and the political context of the Cold War. I learned so much from Vanished and am so grateful for it -- Helen Macdonald

A compelling homage to living and extinct beings, Qureshi’s masterpiece is a superbly written, urgent and heart racing volume. Unweaving the threads of centuries of teleological explanations, imperial scientific approaches and offering a new path to understanding mass extinction is a stroke of genius. Vanished is enthralling, devastating and yet empowering -- Olivette Otele

One of our most innovative historians guides us with grace, humility and conviction through the daunting, tangled thickets of species extinction and human extermination. Qureshi warns us that scientific advancement and enlightenment are not necessarily compatible but encourages us that they can be -- Alan Lester

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

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Juanita Cox @juanitacox.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Register to join us on Wed, 26 Mar (6-8pm). This event will include a discussion on ESN schools through to SENDs and present day school exclusion practices. The aim will be to foster a constructive dialogue around strategies for future success. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/education-...

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Education - The Black British Experience (Then & Now)

Join us for an event that will delve into the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Black British students in the education system

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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Additionally, Deanna, a former member of YHP, did an episode on the New Cross Fire on her podcast 'The History Hotline', which you can listen to by clicking on the link below #OTD #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿: open.spotify.com/episode/5OZE...

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019: The New Cross Fire

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Really excited to be talking about podcasting for historians at this @ihr.bsky.social session. I’ve been podcasting since 2020 and without knowing much about it has been a really important medium to share my work & create a cool little historical community 🎟️: www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our 4th online session on the 4 March will focus on Podcasting for Historians with @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @deannalyncook.bsky.social, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, Samuel Hume and Izzy Conn. www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Went to an absolutely fabulous conference on Black Power led by the wonderful Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kerry Pimblott. There are so many excellent PhDs and first books in the works from a new cohort of scholars in the field. It’s so exciting to see them flourishing and being so roarsome!

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Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hello 👋🏾 slowing getting into what’s happening this side. I’m a History PhD (@qmul.ac.uk) researching the migration of children from the Caribbean (🇰🇳🇯🇲) to Britain through the lens of the education system in both regions.

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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...

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Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78

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