
Eleanor Lucy Bird
@eleanorlucybird
Canada and slavery, transatlantic print culture, nineteenth-century literature
Research Associate @davynotebooks
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21-10-2012 20:36:21
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Exciting news! The BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere Fellowship is now open for applications - deadline 15 December. See the blog post below for more information! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4877


Announcement of the Lord Dal Report on Race & Slavery. As a result of my efforts, Dalhousie University issued an official apology to people of African descent on 5th Sept 2019. No other Canadian university has uncovered their links to slavery. I am honoured to have led this work.

Fabulous to see the Guardian's article about the Sir Humphry Davy Notebooks Project - Prof Sharon Ruston Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light theguardian.com/science/2023/d…


"I find the idea of people who are sitting on houses worth several times what they paid for them, wishing hardship upon the first generation to have things harder than their parents, really quite perverse.” David Olusoga in The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com thelead.uk/david-olusoga-…


Join Lancaster Black History Group at LIT FEST Lancaster Litfest (online or in person) The Lancaster Slavery Business: Connected Histories of Commodities & Commerce with @ProfImogenTyler Alan Rice, @profgpw jamesfoxtextileart bella tyler 🍉 Lela Harris & Bronte Crawford crowdcast.io/c/xwbm4f1ex8tw

If archives can be silent, can they also shout? Karin Wulf reflects on the noisier archives for #AHAPerspectives. historians.org/research-and-p…


A historian on the project to digitise and transcribe Humphry Davy's diaries, Eleanor Lucy Bird, discusses her thoughts on how we should curate his legacy, especially in light of some of the darker aspects of his life that have been revealed. chemistryworld.com/opinion/engagi…

Read Eleanor Lucy Bird's piece in Chemistry World on Davy's complex legacy: chemistryworld.com/opinion/engagi…

Thrilled this is published. I explain how the transatlantic slave trade coincided w/ the rise of chemistry as a field, which crystalized ideas about oxygen.I then track ventilation from the c19 slavey to TB to CoVid to BLM. Thanks Jacob Steere-Williams & Â Hirshbein for excellent



I am so excited to share that my book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic is available for pre-order. This is one of the first books of its kind to use the stage as the platform to explain Canadian history!! @wlupress wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Canada…. #NewBook #HistoryUncovered #PreOrder



Great chatting about recent developments in AI and Robotics yesterday with the fantastic silé sibanda on BBC Radio Sheffield! The piece starts about 1:10:40 into yesterday's programme: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…