Now in her 98th year, Joyce Trotman has recently published her memoir Dis Girl! The Enchanted Life of Aunty Joyce Trotman. This memoir covers her colonial childhood and family life in British Guiana and later experiences of migration to the UK. https://t.co/VBuSaLDIz9

Register to join Guyana SPEAKS for this event on Prof. John Rickford's memoir, Speaking My Soul: Race Life and Language, an invaluable contribution to Black Studies, Diasporic Studies and the emerging field of Critical Mixed Race Studies. @JCWestmaas https://t.co/pCuN4UONl8

Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent. They are according to him (aka Elon Musk) are being subjected to racism.

Today started off pretty rough. Ended up so riled that I left the house for work with no glasses on. But the day got better - fab poetry workshop with the award-winning Jenny Mitchell. And now this comment from Prof Gus John about the exhibition: https://t.co/x9AAdo1ojQ... Yay!!

The process of decolonisation is on-going. Looking forward to Professor Philip Murphy’s free public lecture at Senate House on Monday, 20th January on Caribbean Decolonisation and the Monarchy.

We are delighted to announce with @UkNatArcRes and @ihr_history that the History and Archives in Practice 2025 registration is now live! Join us to explore 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance' 📍 Senate House, University of London 📷 5

My colleague, Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf, reframes the Windrush Scandal in this article. An important read for anyone interested in the impact of the scandal particularly in relation to the theme of ‘statelessness’.

Register to join Poetry Workshops on archival material about Caribbean decolonisation, the post-WWII migration of West Indians to Britain, activism and the Windrush Scandal. All three workshops: 5th Feb, 19th Feb & 4th March start at 3pm at Senate House, London.

Register to join us for this lecture on Caribbean Decolonisation and Monarchy, Monday, 20th January 2025, 18:00 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU! Please circulate.

Join us at @ihr_history to hear my paper on pigmentocracy and Caribbean migrants in Britain, as part of the @IHR_britain and @ihr_bbh seminar series! 🗓️ Thursday 23rd January 📍 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House #BlackBritishHistory https://t.co/WJiaIXTRD6

Register to join us on 27 January 2025, 6pm-8.30pm for a panel discussion on Windrush and The Law. Come an hour earlier and use this as an opp to visit Senate House Library's exhibition, In the Grip of Change: The Caribbean and its British Diaspora. https://t.co/TNNfGCrMmt

Today is going to be a long day. But I wouldn’t want it any other way. Bourda Bazaar provides the joy of community, friendship, food, drink, music and is a celebration of Guyanese culture. Come join us if you’re free!

10% off the IHR #London #SummerSchool 2025: #Rebels! Speakers Claire Langhamer, Philip Murphy, Matthew Worley, Juanita Cox, Catherine Clarke, People of 1381 Project + more. Visits: Bloomsbury, Bishopsgate Institute, Goldsmiths Hall, special collections... https://t.co/5zG9G4Rb2l

Honoured to have given Prof. Abdul Alkalimat, Dr Kate Williams, and Prof. Gus John a guided tour of the exhibition I co-curated with Argula Rublack. The exhibition, In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British Diaspora, is on at Senate house library until end of Mar 2025.

FYI - Thursday 12 December 2024, 18:30 – 20:30, British Library - Professor Elizabeth McHenry discusses the stakes and challenges of studying the history of Black print with her lecture series entitled ‘Black Bibliography, Here and Now’.

A blog on the launch of 'In the Grip of Change: The Caribbean and its British Diaspora'. Huge thanks goes to my co-curator, Argula Rublack, who was wonderful to work with and the many other people who contributed to its success.

It’s so easy to languish under feelings of imposter syndrome. This article offers an explanation for why and importantly flips the narrative. I wish I’d had this level of perception years ago and had not endured the workplace bullying/belittling I experienced. Revised my outlook!

This. 64% of Black women have reported feeling “on guard” at work. In a 2022 20% of Black women leaders experienced “having someone say or imply that you’re not qualified,” and 55% of Black women leaders experienced “having your judgment questioned.”

Excerpt from Maybe we will wake up singing’; “sometimes I see things that aren't really there like warmth and kindness when people are mean but sometimes i see things like fear and want to soothe it or fatigue and want to share it or love and want to receive it”

Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, which included figures such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Thelonious Monk and Audre Lorde. Sad to hear that she has passed away aged 81.