Kristan Tetens

Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’ London Museum Docklands partially concealed the portrait of Beeston Long, a former governor of the Bank of England, as part of its exhibition

Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’

www.thetimes.com/article/4d3e...

Thank you for this - very helpful as I think about the structure of the multigenerational story I’m writing now. Looking forward to meeting you at The Writing Well session this week.

Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Opinion | What It Means to Hold Someone’s Attention With a Story

“… Hearing of the many occupations of a single family may have allowed our grandchildren to feel more understanding of turmoil, and of difference, thanks to the great roiling mixture that has defined our country from the start.” #genealogy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Matisse painted this all the time.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver Alan Lester Immediately before and after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a number of prominent British organisations assessed their entanglements with slavery and its afterlives. They incl…

The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.

If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.

a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom ALT: a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom

Bad Bunny brought a sugar cane plantation to the Super Bowl.

Where’s the merch that could raise funds to support related efforts? I would definitely buy.

Fascinating.

Agree! Saturn through a telescope is by far the most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

To be fair, this is a fairly recent development (1814).

Richards looks like a nineteenth-century assassin. #UniversityChallenge

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Royal Silence, Archival Voice: A Review of Brooke N. Newman's "The Crown's Silence" Brooke N.

“A work of historical reclamation—one that refuses to let the British monarchy remain peripheral in the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is a long-overdue & unflinching history of the Crown’s complicity & active participation in the slave trade.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

"It is the paradox of dictatorships that they are enormously powerful and yet fear they can be undone by verse." Thank you @theobserveruk.bsky.social for writing about #MohamedTadjadit, the poet unjustly imprisoned in #Algeria for his work. We continue our call for his immediate release.

Protesters disrupt opening of major West African art museum in Nigeria Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on disp...

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display. https://to.pbs.org/43klMFo

‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review

"Fine-grained...[and] painstakingly researched." Read @alanlester.bsky.social's review of Roquinaldo Ferreira's Worlds of Unfreedom in @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

A glowing review of Miranda Kaufmann’s ‘Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery,’ a study that, among other things, considers “Britons’ (continuing) failure to appreciate how much of their affluence was (and still is) based on the suffering of distant others.”

”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.”
🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk

They’re all on Substack.

‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his dis...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

LONDON PUBS NAMED AFTER DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF BELLS. an investigation

Great reporting.

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.

Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.

Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.

A pink rose in full-blown perfection sits in a tea-cup.

Rose in a teacup.

Rose, nature’s handiwork from my garden; teacup, Simon Pettet’s "Storm in a Tea-Cup" mug from Dennis Severs’ House, shop.dennissevershouse.co.uk/products/sim...