🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Three members of the #FallingThroughTheNet research cluster at the Institute, James Baker, Jasmine Holding Brown and Dr Saphia Fleury will each talk about their individual projects in this webinar. Watch at: freedomfestival.co.uk/freedom-talks-… on Sunday, 6th September 2020, 1-2pm. Doctoral College @ the University of Hull

They are part of the #FallingThroughTheNet Research Cluster funded by the Doctoral College @ the University of Hull at the University of Hull and members of the Wilberforce Institute family. They will be online between 2 - 3pm today to answer any questions that you may have via James Baker, Dr Saphia Fleury, Wilberforce Institute

The latest recorded webinar by the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull is by Dr Judith Spicksley. 'Debt, Death and Possession: the beginnings of enslavement' can be accessed through the following link: gotostage.com/channel/0e07d7… . #slavery #debt #history

Voluntary enslavement has presented historians with something of a conceptual conundrum. Today Dr Judith Spicksley discusses two medieval ceremonies of voluntary enslavement and their links to modern subordinating practices.wilberforceinstitute.uk/2020/10/08/two…

Two letters I found for a talk about anti-slavery meetings in my home town of Barton upon Humber revealed some interesting insights about the relationship between George Thompson the anti-slavery speaker and his wife Anne.

Internet searches throw up some interesting things. In a recent search for an image I came across this: aboutmanchester.co.uk/a-portrait-of-… Who could have imagined.......

If you're looking for a Masters course on #modernslavery, Contemporary Slavery Studies and Critical Victimology at Wilberforce Institute - one of Modern Slavery and Human Rights PEC Consortium partners - is good to consider. More details here: hull.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

A preview of a book i edited on slavery and human trafficking 1900-45 that’s out later this year ⁦Joel Quirk⁩ york.ac.uk/igdc/news/news…

If historians disagree about the exact meaning of #slavery they generally agree it's been around for thousands of years. But the English term is only a couple of decades older than #Shakespeare. To see what he made of it go to shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2022/06/14/sha…

As the new term begins Wilberforce Institute we are excited to share with you the details of our forthcoming autumn lectures, beginning with our Alderman Sydney Smith Annual Lecture in October. See our blog at wilberforceinstitute.uk/blog-2/

Thank you to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK for inviting me to speak to Parliamentarians about climate change and defence uk-cpa.org/news-and-views…

In our latest blog, Judith Spicksley discusses Thomas Clarkson's views on voluntary enslavement. wilberforceinstitute.uk/2023/02/23/tho… #slavery #antislavery #Wisbech

Just updated: there are now three decades of our calendar of Wilberforce's correspondence available to view on the website! wilberforcediariesproject.com/correspondence/

Congratulations to Dr Dr Saphia Fleury on the successful defence of her University of Hull funded thesis on the protection of child climate migrants. 👏

New Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History. Edited by Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel Entirely open access (including a chapter of my own on modern slavery and political strategy at the very end) link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Announcing publication of this book. It challenges accepted views of the long term impact of slavery on the British economy. Retweet and publicise to other interested parties. #economichistory #capitalism #industrialrevolution #slavery #twitterstorians Judy Stephenson @sirgeoffpalmer

Africans and Amerindians also progressed western botany, developed strains of cotton that furthered mechanisation and improved sugar refining and steam engines. theguardian.com/science/2023/j…

Our advisor Glynis' mug matched Wilberforce House Museum earlier! She's been helping us develop an Adinkra trail for this year's Freedom Festival Arts Trust. More to come in the week's ahead! #adinkra #art #Hull

facebook.com/share/h42VKFi1…