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🏏 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. bit.ly/3ZWTBK1

@antoniosennis Yay Anna!! 🥳

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…).

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 🥳

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: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

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✨ ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…

👉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 💬

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✨ ucl.ac.uk/history/resear…

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: ucl.ac.uk/history/events…

✨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: shorturl.at/84JBl

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!🥩🇺🇸

@UCLSocHistSci will have three @wolfsonfdn Scholarships for doctoral research in history, literature and languages available for 2025/26 entrants for full tuition fees (either Home or Overseas)!✨ 🗓️Deadline: Friday 31 January 2025 Find out more: shorturl.at/Xb65n

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 💬

Alexander Meckelburg (UCL) and Takele Merid (Institute of Ethiopian Studies) opened the exhibition “Ethiopian Abolitionist Voices” at Addis Ababa University!

Dr Fabian Krautwald (Lecturer in African History) has published a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the Germany's major daily newspapers 📰✨ faz.net/aktuell/wissen…

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. tinyurl.com/2r4z4tre @UCLResearch

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 buff.ly/3NIrzfH

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: buff.ly/3xXRVWd @uclspp @UCLHistory @UCLAmericas