Lila O'Leary Chambers
@lilachambers.bsky.social
Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow
@CaiusCollege
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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
womenshistorynetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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📣 ICYMI: Insurrect! has an open call for a summer roundtable, organized by one of our graduate student editors. We are hoping to publish reflections from early career researchers, contingent scholars, and public humanists. We pay our editors and writers. 📣
Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence.
Submit by June 20th!
Submit by June 20th!
Call for Writers: Imagining Survival — INSURRECT!
Submit by June 20th!
www.insurrecthistory.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📣 ICYMI: Insurrect! has an open call for a summer roundtable, organized by one of our graduate student editors. We are hoping to publish reflections from early career researchers, contingent scholars, and public humanists. We pay our editors and writers. 📣
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Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them
I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.
🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless
🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless
The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless
I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.
www.newstatesman.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them
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Check out our latest roundtable about mutual aid in the early Americas!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
Mutual Aid in Early America: A Roundtable — INSURRECT!
This roundtable includes reflections from four scholars who presented on a
panel, “Mutual Aid in Early America” at the Society of Early Americanists
(SEA) Biannual Meeting in June 2023, chaired ...
www.insurrecthistory.com
December 16, 2023 at 1:14 PM
Check out our latest roundtable about mutual aid in the early Americas!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥
"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
by Fallon Murphy
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
by Fallon Murphy
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
www.insurrecthistory.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:48 PM
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥
"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
by Fallon Murphy
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
by Fallon Murphy
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
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Scholarship Opportunity!
3 Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. More details here:
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...
3 Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. More details here:
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...
Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship 2025
Project opportunity - Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship 2025 at the University of Leeds
phd.leeds.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Scholarship Opportunity!
3 Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. More details here:
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...
3 Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are available to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups for study in any Faculty in Session 2025/26. More details here:
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...
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Bomb Magazine: Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman
"At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her longstanding commitment to Black poesis."
#DionneBrand #BombMag
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
"At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her longstanding commitment to Black poesis."
#DionneBrand #BombMag
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BOMB Magazine | Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman
At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her…
bombmagazine.org
November 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Bomb Magazine: Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman
"At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her longstanding commitment to Black poesis."
#DionneBrand #BombMag
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
"At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her longstanding commitment to Black poesis."
#DionneBrand #BombMag
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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New on advance access: "Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex"
by Lila O’Leary Chambers (Caius College, University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Lila O’Leary Chambers (Caius College, University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Pending Publication
doi.org
January 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
New on advance access: "Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex"
by Lila O’Leary Chambers (Caius College, University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Lila O’Leary Chambers (Caius College, University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...