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Lila O'Leary Chambers

@lilachambers.bsky.social
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Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Editorial Board @insurrecthistory.bsky.social

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's an honour to be shortlisted for an Orwell Prize for my article in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social last year about my own experiences of homelessness. Thanks to @orwellprize.bsky.social and @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social You can read the piece here: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 “'Grammar of Resistance': Carnival as Political Counter-Narration in Grenada" by Sasha C. Wells Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/gra...
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“Grammar of Resistance”: Carnival as Political Counter-Narration in Grenada — INSURRECT!
“While characters like Jab-Jab are used as marketing devices, carnival in Grenada illustrates how Black cultural performance can function as a response to colonial and post-colonial oppression. Althou...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📣 ICYMI: Insurrect! has an open call for a summer roundtable, organized by one of our graduate student editors. We are hoping to publish reflections from early career researchers, contingent scholars, and public humanists. We pay our editors and writers. 📣
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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them
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Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Check out our latest roundtable about mutual aid in the early Americas! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
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Mutual Aid in Early America: A Roundtable — INSURRECT!
This roundtable includes reflections from four scholars who presented on a panel, “Mutual Aid in Early America” at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biannual Meeting in June 2023, chaired ...
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Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?" by Fallon Murphy Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
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Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Scholarship Opportunity! 3 Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. More details here: phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...
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Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship 2025
Project opportunity - Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship 2025 at the University of Leeds
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Bookwormlit @bookwormlit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Bomb Magazine: Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman "At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her longstanding commitment to Black poesis." #DionneBrand #BombMag bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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BOMB Magazine | Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman
At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her…
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
New on advance access: "Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex" by Lila O’Leary Chambers (Caius College, University of Cambridge) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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