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Setting up for Museum of British Colonialism exhibition at The Alchemy Experiment in Glasgow! Opening event is tonight 7-9pm, we’ll be joined by ScotDetaineeVisitors and Nelson Cummins! Pop along if you’re in the area, exhibition is up for 2 weeks ☕️ More info and tickets here ➡️ events.humanitix.com/anti-blackness…

We are many You are few We are Brighton Who are you?

A bird's-eye view of the huge anti-racist mobilisation happening in Walthamstow right now. Via Novara Media’s Charlotte England.

Of all the wonders of Orkney (and there are many) the one that surprises me the most, digging deep to my bones, is the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm. Built from two end-to-end Nissen huts by Italian POWs captured in North Africa and led by the talented artist Domenico Chiocchetti.

Very excited to be giving a talk on my research into British-colonial detention camps in Kenya as part of Black History Month Scotland #BHM24 next month! Thank you to CRER and Edinburgh Museums for hosting - free tickets below ⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-mater…

✨We are looking for new members of team SAF!✨ Come join the fun, help to create our next conference, and share a love for Scottish Archaeology. #SAF2025

Another day another brilliant Scottish Archaeology Month researcher spotlight! Today we are featuring Hannah McLean, a PhD at UofG Archaeology researching 'Memory and materiality in British-colonial detention camps in Kenya' #ScotArchResearch

This is huge! After decades of anti-colonial campaigning by Chagos Islanders, the UK begrudgingly gives in. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This evening at 7pm via Zoom! ⬇️

This might literally be true, in terms of "footage," but in fact colonialism has long coexisted with extremely vivid and public images of atrocity. The problem, disturbingly and vexingly, is that the moral outrage many of us feel when we see them is not a universal response.

If you missed the opening evening of Museum of British Colonialism's Glasgow exhibition, ScotDetaineeVisitors have shared their director Kate Alexander's fantastic speech from the event that draws links between colonial detention in Kenya and contemporary immigration detention in the UK ⬇️

Some thoughts on early medieval identity and the Galloway Hoard 👇

The Call for Papers for the panel 'Identity and Belonging in African Colonial Counterinsurgencies' at ECAS 2025, run by myself and Thomas Wright is live. More information and submission details can be found below. ecasconference.org/2025/call-for-… #ECAS2025

Delighted to announce this with Kenny Brophy & Hannah McLean. A bit of festive levity at the end of a hard working semester! UofG Archaeology UofG Humanities

One of the top 5 archaeological discoveries in Scotland of 2024? Only one of the plant tags dating back to AD1987 that we found during excavations at the Glasgow Garden Festival site this summer! #ContemporaryArchaeology After the Garden Festival... UofG Archaeology bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Last week, Neil Wigan, the British High Commissioner to Kenya, handed over five hard drives containing 9.6 TB of digitized British colonial archives (2,658 documents and 307,164 images) to President William Ruto.  nation.africa/kenya/news/bri…

I spent three months exploring the american rust belt, here’s how it went

thenational.scot/politics/24920… Some of my musings on Scotland's memories of empire. Thanks The National