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May 3

We're delighted to announce the second instalment in our Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series: Professor David Lambert, "Of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture." 5pm, 25th May, Lecture Theatre 115, 1-19 Torrington Place. eventbrite.co.uk/e/of-uncertain

The Bishop of London, colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade - Fulham Palace

Apr 24

A new exhibition exploring the linked histories of the Bishops of London and transatlantic slavery and colonialism opens today at Fulham Palace.

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When it came to the abolition of slavery, the British government compensated slave owners for the loss of 'property.'...... #EricWilliams #Capitalism #SlaveryAndCapitalism #Slavery #MercantileCapitalism

The relationship between capitalism and slavery

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Catherine Hall, Emeritus Professor at University College London, explores capitalism and slavery’s symbiotic relationship.

communitiesofliberation.org.uk

Apr 13

communitiesofliberation.org.uk Job opportunity: Communities of Liberation, Research & Engagement Lead on a project identifying the places, spaces and networks in which African people lived, worked or socialised during the period of the operation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Communities of Liberation

Communities of Liberation is a historical research and public art project which aims to increase awareness of the long history of the African presence in the London’s East End by focusing specifica...

The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

Apr 13

Dr Matthew Stallard, LBS Research Associate, has an import piece in the Guardian's Cotton Capital series today:

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A visual exploration of how the growth of Manchester as an industrial city had a colossal human cost, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend

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Science and Industry Museum

@sim_manchester

Mar 31

🧵 1/3. Global Threads has seen us join with

and a team of young researchers to explore under-represented stories of Manchester’s cotton industry. We are pleased to be part of these important conversations and the research is shaping the stories we tell in the museum

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Mar 31

My contribution to Cotton Capital: a long read on Manchester, race and the power of civic memory theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

Reserve a free ticket for our upcoming event 'Brookes (Revisited) - A Talk by Elgin Cleckley' in collaboration with Royal Museums Greenwich on Tuesday 18 April: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/lectu

Astounding #blueplaque unveiling by

@ForgottenWomenW

with research endorsed and reviewed by Matt Stallard

@ShardiaBPalmer

- keep an eye out for a piece in

@yorkshirepost

@YP_LauraR

and huge thank you to

Mar 8

Our conversation between Tony Warner of Black History Walks & LBS Director Matthew J. Smith takes place tomorrow at 4.30pm at the Black Cultural Archives, Brixton! (Please register in advance, as the BCA has limited capacity).

Talking Black History Walks: A Conversation with Tony Warner

Black History Walks founder Tony Warner speaks with Matthew J. Smith of the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery

Feb 24

CSLBS is excited to announce our upcoming event, "Talking Black History Walks: A Conversation with Tony Warner" at the Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, at 4.30pm on Thursday 9 March. Register via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-blac

Feb 7

Earlier that day, Professor Stevenson will lead a workshop for early career scholars and PhD students on the theme of Family and Slavery. See the cfp for details: ed.ac.uk/history-classi

Exciting news from our colleagues at the Edinburgh Centre for Global History! The 2023 Lecture in the History of Slavery, taking place on 25 April, will be Professor Brenda Stevenson's 'Slavery, Family and Resistance.' ed.ac.uk/history-classi

Registration is now open for our upcoming public lecture, "Gendering Racial Capitalism: British Women Investors in Transatlantic Slavery" by Lila O'Leary Chambers, 10 February 2023:

NEW DATE: "Gendering Racial Capitalism": Public lecture

"Gendering Racial Capitalism: British Women Investors in Transatlantic Slavery." 5pm, 3rd May 2023. IAS Common Ground, UCL.

Jan 8

Details of the project can be found here! org.nhslothian.scot/AboutUs/OurHis

The important Atlantic Slavery and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh project will hold an event in Edinburgh next month:

How we used to care for people in Edinburgh by enslaving other people

Join our conversation about the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh's ties to slavery and what NHS Lothian can do about it today.

The recording of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery's public lecture with Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown is now live:

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Interleaving Records and Policies to Illuminate the Enslaved Commun...

Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown, 'Interleaving Records and Policies to Illuminate the Enslaved Community at Papine, Jamaica, 1817-1832' at the Centre for the Study ...

Nov 18, 2022

Due to planned industrial action, our upcoming public lecture by Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown will now take place at 6pm on Thursday 1 December - a day later than scheduled. Register here! eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Morant Bay Rebellion

Nov 18, 2022

Please note that this event will now take place on 1 Dec 2022!

Register here for our free public lecture - 30 November, online - by Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown eventbrite.co.uk/e/cslbs-public

CSLBS Director Matthew J. Smith recently spoke with Melvyn Bragg and other In Our Time guests about the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. Listen here:

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.

Slavery and the Bank of England: Exploitation on Display

Oct 5, 2022

Our latest blog post, 'Slavery and the Bank of England: Exploitation on Display' by Katie Donington, is now live!

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Katie Donington is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. She specialises in the history of transatlantic slavery.How did the national bank support transatlantic slavery? As the Bank of…

We are excited to announce our first public lecture of the 22/23 academic year. Professor Lissa Paul's lecture is titled 'Speaking the Unspeakable; Or, Providing the Evidence Without Being Censored.' Monday 10 October 2022, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm, IAS Common Ground, UCL, WC1E 6BT.

Register here for a free screening of the film A PLACE OF BONES followed by a presentation by Peggy King Jorde & Q&A (6pm, Monday 3 October at Senate House):

commonwealth.sas.ac.uk

"A STORY OF BONES" | Film screening to mark Black History Month

UCL CSLBS Inaugural Elsa Goveia Public Lecture by Professor Jennifer...

Sep 2, 2022

We are delighted to share the link to watch the CSLBS's inaugural Elsa Goveia lecture, Professor Jennifer L. Morgan's 'The Measure of their Sadness: Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic'.

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The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery hosted the inaugural Elsa Goveia public lecture at UCL 18 May 2022 by Professor Jennifer L. Morga...

The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838

Aug 13, 2022

Go see the globes, walk the trails, and learn about the shared Histories and legacies of Transatlantic Slavery. theworldreimagined.org

Big Up and Much respect to the entire team, artists, and all hands involved in The World Reimagined project

@TWR__org

. A powerful project we are super honoured to be a part of.

It matters not when you did leave. Every single one a we come out a the cane piece.

Some believe all the foolishness hard heart people say bout freedom not for any and every one. How some need to be led with bridle and bit like mule and horse. Not because some get let go first, always remember this:

Last Words Yes, is true. Some who get freedom first, walk past and mock the first of August Nayga [person of African ancestry] the last to get emancipation. Yes sir. We had was to bear all the commotion and bangarang of old pan as them galang past we out a the estate.

Today the CSLBS joins with those who recognize the anniversary of August 1, 1838 the date of full freedom from British slavery. In recognition, we offer the final section of Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison's 2017 poem, Testimony of First of August Negroes: The Last to be set Free.

A new edition of Orlando Patterson's The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 is out now from Polity

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The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838, Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of...

Fara Dabhoiwala · My Runaway Slave, Reward Two Guineas: Tools of Enslavement · LRB 23 June 2022

Jul 15, 2022

CSLBS gets a mention in Fara Dabhoiwala's "My Runaway Slave, Reward Two Guineas," a review in the LRB of Simon Newman's book Freedom Seekers

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As colonial historians have long appreciated, ‘runaway slave’ adverts provide the best surviving evidence of the...

Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US

Jul 15, 2022

Some recent good news: Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US

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Photos dating back to 1800s made free to allow telling of black history stories beyond enslavement and colonisation

Join The El-Erian Institute of #BehaviouralEconomics and Policy on 7 July for their conference, co-hosted in partnership with

@LSEnews

and

@KingsCollegeLon

. The event will offer keynote lectures by

@CassSunstein

and

@dilipsoman

. Find out more:

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Conference - Behavioural Transformations in the 21st Century: Frontiers in Behavioural Public...

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would like to send massive thanks to @ProfJLMorgan for a fantastic inaugural Elsa Goveia Lecture, to our fantastic event volunteers❤️, and to our audience of 80 attendees - a great evening - hope to see you all soon!

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May 17, 2022

We are pleased to announce that tomorrow's inaugural Elsa Goveia lecture will be recorded and added to our Youtube channel in the coming weeks for all those unable to attend LAST CHANCE to make your FREE booking for 6pm in UCL's Darwin Theatre, Gower St: eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-je

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May 11, 2022

Just one week to go before our inaugural lecture in honour of @UCLHistory's groundbreaking alumna Elsa Goveia, with our much-anticipated guest speaker @ProfJLMorgan Tickets are FREE but limited & going fast, so book now to avoid disappointment!!! eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-je

Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

May 11, 2022

Just one week to go before our inaugural lecture in honour of

@UCLHistory

's groundbreaking alumna Elsa Goveia, with our much-anticipated guest speaker @ProfJLMorgan Tickets are FREE but limited & going fast, so book now to avoid disappointment!!! eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-je

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May 4, 2022

*This month!* We can't wait to host @ProfJLMorgan on 23rd May, 5pm

@KingsCollegeLon

. Prof Morgan will give a public symposium on her book 'Reckoning with Slavery' at Bush House, followed by a drinks reception. Tickets still available to book here!