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Liz Egan

@lizegan.bsky.social
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Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her). Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall. ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies

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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Feeling very honoured that my @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article has been shortlisted alongside so many other amazing pieces of research! 😊
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Meet the Executive of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) Chair – Dr. Leighan Renaud #SocietyForCaribbeanStudies #CaribbeanResearch #CaribbeanScholarship #CaribbeanAcademia #CaribbeanVoices
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Registration is now open!!!!!
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying. 2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?” 🗃️#FRHistory frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/
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ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done? – SSFH
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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Festival of Black History is THIS Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Tickets are free but booking is essential! billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...
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Festival of Black History
FREE entry, booking is essential. Celebrate Black history in its many and diverse forms at a brand ...
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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
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Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 27/08/2025
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T Makonnen and International African Opinion', by Jack Bowman bit.ly/3Hu0bCI How did interwar Pan-Africanism encompass different anti-colonial groups. How was print publishing used in campaigning? 1/2
Front page of the TRHS article: 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T. Makonnen and International African Opinion', by Jack BowmanImage of the print publication 'International African Opinion' in TRHS article 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T. Makonnen and International African Opinion'
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We are thrilled to be supporting the Festival of Black History on Saturday 6th September 2025 at Goldsmiths, University of London. It is going to be an incredible event - Booking is FREE but essential
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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
One month today the book I’ve been working on for the last seven years will be published by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social You can pre-order #Heiresses now through all good bookshops! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heir...
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Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities! A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA):Whiteknights Reading UK
Postdoctoral Research Associate(4 years, full time) in public history project ‘Nation of Refuge’.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 07/08/2025
"The camp was most known for its non-violent direct action, including women ‘embracing the base’, chaining themselves to and cutting the fence, staging ‘die-ins’ and organising blockades." Maisie Jepson (@girlinthewrongera.bsky.social) on women's protest at Greenham. www.historyworkshop....
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Motherhood and Banner-making at Greenham Women’s Peace Camp
How did making banners help women to express themselves at Greenham Common Peace Camp? Why was motherhood was such a prominent theme?
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/08/2025
‘The first legal code put in place by the New Haven colony in 1639 recognised ‘man-stealing’ as a crime punishable by death. Yet the Puritan settlers found a way to reconcile themselves with slavery.’ Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe
When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Happy 101st Birthday #JamesBaldwin! We’re celebrating by announcing the launch of our new series: Thinking with James Baldwin The series explores new approaches to Baldwin’s work, incl his fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, interviews & activism manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/think...
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We are very excited to announce that the CFP for the 11th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Conference is now live! community-languages.org.uk/scs/society-...
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Call for Papers: 11TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES 2026 – Society for Caribbean Studies
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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NEWS KLAXON 📢📢📢 I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Jonathan Connolly discusses his research process at the National Archives in London that led to his book, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024) lawandhistoryreview.org/article/jona...
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Jonathan Connolly: Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation – Law & History Review
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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk
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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'm very much looking forward to this, but also wondering why I thought a weekend would be sufficient time to recover from organising @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social conference
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
And we finished on a fantastic high with our Bridget Jones Award presentation from La Vaughn Belle www.lavaughnbelle.com
La Vaughn Belle stands at the lecturn giving her presentationA slide displaying La Vaughn's sculpture "Sovereign" is displayed on the screen, depicting a woman emerging out of broken glass, her hands outstretched as if shooting an arrow. La Vaughn Belle stands at the lectern
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
And what a dream to welcome Prof Verene Shepherd as the Pat Noxolo Keynote
Prof Pat Noxolo seated next to Prof Verene Shepherd who is dedicating her biography of Lucille Mathurin MairProfessor Verene Shepherd at a lectern delivering her keynote lectureProfessor Verene Shepherd seated smiling next to Prof Gad HeumanTable of delegates smiling at the camera seated ready for dinner
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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm physically exhausted but what an amazing few days with incredible papers ❤️
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Indo-Caribbean Windrush Oral History Project documents the stories of Indo-Caribbeans who migrated to the UK during or after the Windrush era (1948–1971), and their descendants. It highlights voices often overlooked in Windrush commemorations.
Info poster for Indo-Caribbean Windrush An Oral History project. Includes a photograph of indentured labourers in Trinidad on the left and the HMT Empire Windrush on the right
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press” dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/news/oe...
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OER in Caribbean Studies: Stipend Recipients 2025 – Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📣 The Society for Caribbean Studies is excited to introduce Christian Gurdin, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, who will be presenting at the 48th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Conference this July! He will be taking over our /social media accounts to talk about his research.
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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We're hosting Andel Andrew on our social media channels this week! Please check out his posts here and on Instagram to get a sneak peek at his research ahead of our conference in July! #SCS2025
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.
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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
With @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social coming to Bristol in just a few weeks to discuss themes of repair, it's great to read this reflection on the curating of the Colston statue
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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I am so excited to see all of this come together - draft programme looks amazing and should be published this week!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/05/2025
📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Don’t forget to register for the Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives conference on 28 June. Only £10, with follow—up support for your school and travel bursaries available!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/05/2025
How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal? Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?' www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...
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Is there really fashion in Jamaica?
Elli Young explores how archiving Jamaican fashion history challenges colonial narratives of the Caribbean.
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Eliska Bujokova @eliskabujokova.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
📢 Calling all history ECRS! Myself & Anna McEwan are organising a resource sharing and podcast production workshop this September at @uofglasgow.bsky.social funded by @royalhistsoc.org & supported by the @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social . Check out the CfP for details 🔽
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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
There's still time to register for the 48th annual Society for Caribbean Studies UK conference community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/
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2025 Annual Conference Registration – Society for Caribbean Studies
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/05/2025
The Society welcomes applications for two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history. Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians



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Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025
Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025
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Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I thought it important to post a brief blog responding to Robert Tombs’ latest attempt to disparage fellow historians who worked for the Church of England. My response to his TLS article is here: alanlester.co.uk/blog/south-s...
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South Sea Trouble: A Corrective
Alan Lester The Dividend Hall of South Sea House, 1810 Robert Tombs has a new essay in the TLS disparaging the historians who helped the Church of England uncover its historical complicity in slave…
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.
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Kate Arthurs @kate-arthurs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Illuminating talk by Alison Donnell at Bookhaus in Bristol to launch Lost and Found, an A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean. Thank you @wasafirimag.bsky.social for connecting us many years ago! @bookhaus.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.papillotepress.co.uk/books/lostan...
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Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.
Poster image displaying an image of Ussher Fort with information on the exhibition below
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Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art. 'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art' Read full article here👇🏾 doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In among the madness, I'm delighted to have submitted the manuscript for our forthcoming book Incarcerated: Contemporary Photography from the Victorian Prison to @bluecoatpress.bsky.social. Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
A prison officer sits outside the prayer room under the pointed arches within the central atrium inside HMP Lincoln, Lincoln.
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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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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out - with signatures
To co-sign the statement, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiScaMEt5 Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We are non-trans feminist academics...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 21/04/2025
We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
That the placards held by these presumably cis-women protesters seeking to deny trans women rights read ‘adult human female’, ‘large gametes’, and ‘biological fact’ encapsulates the biological essentialism, reductionism, and determinism at the heart of their definition of who counts as a woman.
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers
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