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Portsmouth Black History UK @porblackhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Meet some of our Steering Group who are guiding our oral history project: Members of the African and Caribbean community - Marie, Julian, Sandra, Arlene, Eldica, and Leroy, Jo from the Royal Navy Museums and Jodi from @uophistory.bsky.social. Also Sarah, our Oral History manager.

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IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are excited to announce the programme of the IHR African History Seminar for the 26/27 academic year! Please join us starting September 30 for a great line-up of speakers. To register (starting next week) and latest updates, check www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Biography can help recover history from colonial dispossession and silencing - join us next Wednesday September 30 for the first IHR African History Seminar in 26/27 with Ben Lawrance and Vusumuzi Kumalo to explore how, focusing on South African writer Dugmore Boetie, apartheid, and decolonization!

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Portsmouth Black History UK @porblackhist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are you - or someone you know - interested in being interviewed for the Oral History Project? We're looking for African and Caribbean residents of Portsmouth who came here before 1980 to tell their stories of coming to and building a life in the city - get in touch! #Pompey #Portsmouth #OralHistory

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Portsmouth Black History UK @porblackhist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

African and Caribbean people living in Portsmouth who have stories to tell, and memories to share, we need your stories! If you came to Portsmouth before 1980 and are interested in sharing your story, please get in touch with us here or email portsmouthblackhistory@outlook.com #Portsmouth #Pompey

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The British History in the Long 18th Century seminar meets again on Wednesday next week. As ever, we're in person at the IHR, London and online on Zoom. All welcome. Register through the link below: the seminar is free and open to the public. #Skystorians

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Empire’s Imagined Spaces: Time, Connection, and the Making of British Imperial Identities, 1757-1840

British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Really proud to be in this and glad it’s out in paperback!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/07/2026

#OtD 26 Jul 1937 British authorities in Barbados secretly deported Clement Payne, a worker who was trying to start a trade union, to Trinidad, where police were waiting to arrest him for possessing prohibited literature. More info here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-...

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Portsmouth Black History UK @porblackhist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hallo world! We are the Portsmouth Black Stories project - an oral history project to document the experiences of pioneering Africans and Caribbeans who made the city their home after the Second World War. Our work is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Give us a follow!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/07/2026

#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481...

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