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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When you remember that we're all citizens of a country called "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", and that "British citizen" wasn't even a legal category until the 1980s...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
👏🏽👏🏽
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stunned and honoured by where my love letter to life living has reached. My profound thanks to everyone who made it possible: from beloveds who roared with me without reading a word, to the readers and judges who so kindly did, and found it worthwhile. I’m delighted to be in such company.
Wolfson History Prize 2026 Shortlist image, featuring Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. The book is shown with the front cover and spine, against the Wolfson logo.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazing news! An outstanding book. It deserves all the praise. 🎉
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My Queen B. has joined the ancestors. Devastated. 💔
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hmm, I started by saying that enslaved women were healers, midwives and knew a lot about medicinal plants. Some plantations relied on their knowledge and skills. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade
Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research reveals
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bath 😍
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you. A colleague kindly emailed it to me.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💯
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And yes,
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Nene Leakes: I Said What I Said Meme
ALT: Nene Leakes: I Said What I Said Meme
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I started doing the research, it was left wing well known academics who considered that it wasn't my place to do it. Ultimately though, those of us like minded people from ALL backgrounds, just need these stories out. So I do support the research.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's also significant to me that who gets to research that history matters and the UK public is more 'receptive' when it is people of European descent researching that history. It shouldn't matter but it does.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have been saying for decades that focusing in the monarchy is cussing at the tree so we wouldn't have to look at the forest. I guess the time has come for Britain to stop denying that it ever existed or stop glorifying it. Public perception changed. Timing is everything.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Guardian newspaper launched its series called Enslaving Nation. It's important. Those of us (especially of African descent in Europe) who have been working on that history for decades got discouraged along the way.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/09/2026
Himalayas approaching tipping point, millions of livelihoods at stake-report reut.rs/46iDNF4
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Himalayas approaching tipping point, millions of livelihoods at stake-report
The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than a decade ago, threatening water security as ​the region approaches "peak water" by mid-century, according to a study ‌released this month.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you. I'm emailing you now.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Historians, does anyone have access to this article: 'Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeen-Century Seafarers' by Richard Blakemore?
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Recent attacks lead me to believe that AI is testing boundaries and those tests (uncoordinated by humans) could be the end of us. All that on top of the environmental cost ...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My tech, AI obsessed husband is trying to convince me that AI is also used to counter the danger of AI (so it's soon AI versus AI, with no need for human interaction / control anymore).
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes, it can accomplish brilliant things but can ultimately and sooner rather than later, kill us all.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've been following this closely, especially recent attacks. Everyone should watch this about AI. youtu.be/i30jVPqQeOM?...
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Ex-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030
YouTube video by CNN
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People hating people they've only seen on their phones...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We can learn a lot about knowledge transmission methods, what is being shared and how to curate a collective memory. Back there next week for the opening reception and a more thorough visit.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What an evening at the British Museum! In the presence of King Charles, Queen Camilla, President Macron, Mrs Macron, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, we celebrated the #BayeuxTapestry Telling humanity's histories through fabric & embroidery.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exceptionalism and Infantilisation are present in many comments about Prof. Arday. Well, let's talk about these points and not specifically about him. My views below. And as I said in other platforms, nope I don't want to talk to the media about this and will keep on declining those 'invitations'.
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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con @casa-africa.bsky.social buff.ly/WGsMVlg
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good morning I know it's 5 o'clock somewhere so ...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was interviewed by Guardian journalist Angela Foster about CARICOM 's decision to update 10 point plan on reparatory justice by including gender based gender violence. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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‘Women were currency’: How reparatory justice is spotlighting gender-based violence
In this month’s newsletter: placing Black women and girls at the forefront, celebrating the Manchester experience and preserving Gullah Geechee land
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thank you very much. I replied.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Don't, well, actually do let the door hit you on your way out!
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Me, looking at how Labour is hyping he (because yet again he has to be a he?) who is to become the next PM.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I was boycotting the whole thing but couldn't help watching the highlights ... And yes Kylian was superb!
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
OTD, 💔❤️✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
ODT: Dr Walter Rodney, SOAS University of London alumni (PhD in African History, slavery in Upper Guinea), was assassinated.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Will the restitution to Cameroon begin soon? Return of ancestral remains to Maca community from Germany could signal breakthrough for all Cameroonian communities. @historianmemory.bsky.social @akpf.bsky.social @hist4dem.bsky.social @regartless.bsky.social 👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/will-the-res...
Picture of title page of blog contribution
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Could this day get any worse? Marjane Satrapi 💔
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Researchers working on Portugal in 16th century, I have a question for you. How many enslaved people were there in Portugal in the 16th century AND did they indeed make up for 10% of the population? The figures & sources I have don't match.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I should have been there tonight but no trains and only a few replacement buses that couldn't bring me back to the wild wild West Wales. I missed out 😩 I LOVE Prof Qureshi's work. The book is brilliant!
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Quite a week! Filming for the Orwell Prize; invited to the Elysée Palace by President Macron for the 25 years of the Taubira Law; several important announcements made there, like the dissolution of Code Noir, finally & more. Trying to write while travelling😩 Resting in the Wild West Wales now. Phew.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Historian Lucy Worsley investigates the American Revolution on BBC. Episode 2 is on but if you missed the 1st one with moi, making an appearance, here www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Well, halas!
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Reform stickers on some cars, the new normal in Wales? This Black woman does NOT feel safe in some places these days. Imagine finding out people you know and liked voted Reform. Imagine fighting alongside the 'White working class' all your adult life only to see them choose Brexit & now Reform.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth reveals new Welsh government ministers
Ap Iorwerth said it was not just a change in administration but a change of approach for governing Wales.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
London, last night on stage with the amazing 2021 winner of the International Booker Prize, David Diop at Southbank.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
All of us children of Africa walked with and honoured her fierce and beautiful soul. Artists, poets, scholars from across the globe, all of us touched by her grace, were there for Koyo.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Werewere Liking, Koyo's spiritual mother.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Koyo's husband, musician Philippe Mall
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