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University College London
Joined July 2012
🏏 In the latest instalment of our 2024 #PorticoMagazine review, Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) explores the social and political role of cricket: from a tool of empire to the “beating heart” of Caribbean social life in post-war Britain.
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BBC News Chief Presenter Maryam Moshiri (UCL Italian BA 2000) reflects on her broadcasting journey and how her studies at UCL have anchored her career.
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And the winner of the Outstanding Community-Engaged Learning Award is… our very own Anna Maguire! @UCLHistory (how cool…to be at the Olympic Park wearing a medal…).
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Well done to Dr @AndrewSeaton @UCLHistory for being shortlisted for this amazing prize, which is a tremendous achievement in itself 👏👏👏 and many, many congratulations to the winner, Joya Chatterji 🥳
And that's a wrap! Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, Joya Chatterji, for her book Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, and to the brilliant shortlisted authors listed below:
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To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery and its legacies in their countries and regions. 🗓️2 December, 6-8:30pm 👉Book: https://t.co/P2rhHp2Dj7
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Images as History Seminar Series: Africa in the US Cold War Photographic Archive 📷 Dr Kimberly Schreiber hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas with Professor Darren Newbury 🇺🇸 🗓️3 Dec, 6–8pm ✨All welcome✨ https://t.co/UPK0FTaArd
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Dr Kimberly Schreiber, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas.
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👉African Voices Against Slavery: Exhibition at UCL East👈 To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery on 2 December, 6-8:30pm 💬
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The exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’ opens in the UCL East campus from 3-17 December. 🗓️Opening symposium on 3 December at 6pm ✨All welcome✨ https://t.co/slkIWFYmFI
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The exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’ opens in the UCL East campus from 3-17 December. 🗓️Opening symposium on 3 December at 6pm ✨All welcome✨ https://t.co/slkIWFYmFI
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👉African Voices Against Slavery: Exhibition at UCL East👈 To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, leading West African antislavery activists will speak about their struggles against slavery on 2 December, 6-8:30pm 💬
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This year's UCL History Neale Lecture will feature Professor Jo Van Steenbergen who will be speaking on 'The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)' 💬 👉Book here: https://t.co/OFkKp6vg13
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✨Professor Matthew J. Smith delivers the 2024 F.E.L. Priestley Distinguished lecture series in the History of Ideas at University College, University of Toronto, Canada on 12-14 November✨ The lectures were titled 'Three Island Overtures'. Read more:
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Dr Robert Suits, our Lecturer in Environmental History, gave a brilliant taster lecture on ‘Beef and Industrialisation in the United States’ on our @UCLSocHistSci Undergraduate Taster Day last Saturday!🥩🇺🇸
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The programme included research presentations by Yonas Ashine, Oljira Tujuba, Ahmed Hassen, and Takele Merid, keynote address by Teferi Mekonnen and public lecture by Giulia Bonacci 💬
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Alexander Meckelburg (UCL) and Takele Merid (Institute of Ethiopian Studies) opened the exhibition “Ethiopian Abolitionist Voices” at Addis Ababa University!
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Dr Fabian Krautwald (Lecturer in African History) has published a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the Germany's major daily newspapers 📰✨ https://t.co/qWi61Ev5A5
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Are you a UCL Social Science Mid-Career Researcher? If so, join our new Coordinating Group and develop an activity programme that will identify the needs and challenges encountered by mid-career researchers, and find ways to address them. https://t.co/JaTgzJZMkm
@UCLResearch
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Did you know that cricket plays a significant role in the analysing the legacy of the British empire? Dive into this insightful piece by Dr Michael Collins (@UCLHistory) to learn about how the sport has shaped post-imperial history 🏏 @aftertheraj
https://t.co/o2qlLRgvux
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Americans are heading to the polls on #2024election day today 🇺🇸 and it is no secret that gender and sexuality have become a major focus this election cycle. Catch up on our panel event delving into this pressing issue: https://t.co/nOGTy8lkbL
@uclspp @UCLHistory @UCLAmericas
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Do YOU love a Sunday morning debate about the funding model, and indeed the entire future of the NHS?! Well if so this debate is for you!
‘It’s not the volume of money going in, or how we raise it, it’s what we do with it’ 👏👏👏 @BeaconRosie making the case for NHS reform on BBC Sunday Morning Live
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Local TV Coverage 👉 https://t.co/rzfWW6MpIq
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Ukumbusho wa shujaa Kilifi: Sherehe ya kumtuza David Koi yaandaliwa Kilifi. Koi anatambulika kwa juhudi za kukomesha utumwa. Viongozi wataka mnara wa ukumbusho kujengwa #SemaNaCitizen @MKapombe
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