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MPhil World History student Eleanor Gaylard sheds new light on the long-overlooked histories of Afro‑Argentines in her compelling piece for Cambridge’s Faculty of History, revealing how Black identity in Argentina has been continually reshaped and obscured over time. Read the story on the Faculty of History website.

The Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative and Cambridge University Press hosted the launch of The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery by Dr Nicolas Bell-Romero. The event was chaired by Professor Pedro Ramos Pinto, Convenor of the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative. Dr Bell-Romero's book was the result of several yea…

Read the blog by by Vicky Avery, Keeper, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, on the University of Cambridge Museums Collections in Action website. 

Read the blog by by Vicky Avery, Keeper, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, on the University of Cambridge Museums Collections in Action website. 

A pioneering community collaboration between The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge United Football Club, and local charity Romsey Mill has empowered young people to co-design a bespoke football kit that celebrates creativity, heritage, and community voice this Black History Month.Read the story on the main Cambridge University website.

The Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), in collaboration with the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative, opened its Michaelmas Term seminar series with a public lecture by Professor João José Reis, Simón Bolívar Professor at CLAS 2025–26. The event was chaired by Dr Adrián Lerner Patrón and brought together students, academics and members…

As part of Black History Month 2025, St Catharine’s College History Society and the Faculty of Education hosted an evening event to mark the publication of Malik Al Nasir’s new book, Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge (William Collins, 2025). The event was sponsored by the University’s Legacies of Enslavement…

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Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.Read the story on the main Cambridge University website.

Dr Marsha Pearce has been awarded one of the highly competitive British Academy Global Professorships, and will join the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge with her project Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists. Read the full story on the Collections Connections Communities website.

An exhibition highlighting the links of Newnham College founders to the transatlantic enslavement economy, is to open at the College. The exhibition is part of a programme of enquiry, at Newnham and across the University of Cambridge, to consider ways in which collegiate Cambridge contributed to, benefitted from or challenged the Atlantic slave tra…

Scholar-activist Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman delivered a powerful and extensively-researched talk on Britain and the abolition of enslavement, at the @homertonchangemakers #TuesdayConversations in March.Read the story on the Homerton College website.

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