Sarah Thomas
@drsarahbthomas
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Senior Lecturer, History of Art dept, Birkbeck. Slavery and visual culture, British art and empire, slave-ownership and British art museums
Joined January 2015
has just published (and translated into Portuguese) a blogpost I wrote on an intriguing picture from the 1820s by Augustus Earle, adapted from my book 'Witnessing Slavery' - Earle deserves to be better known, such a fascinating artist!
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RT @SmithsonianSec: Today, we address a historic injustice by returning the Benin Bronzes, magnificent examples of Benin's culture and hist…
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Exhibition Project Curator, Legacies of Enslavement (Fixed Term) @Cambridge_Uni A great opportunity coming up at the Fitzwilliam!
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@birkbeck_ETC @BirkBeckArtsRes @LinneanSociety @CHASE_DTP @birkbeck_arts @ahrcpress A wonderful Collaborative Doctoral project is now open, working with Dr Emily Senior and the Linnean Society - do take a look!
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Special issue @AtlanticStudies on colonial Caribbean Visual Cultures - out now! DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1941723
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RT @drsarahbthomas: @birkbeck_arts & @NationalGallery are offering a fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership grant from Oct. 2021,…
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@AnnaArabindan @analuciaraujo_ Thank you both! Looking forward to seeing you again Ana Lucia in Paris later this year, fingers’ crossed. Your work is constantly inspiring and very useful in my teaching.
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@birkbeck_arts & @NationalGallery are offering a fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership grant from Oct. 2021, for research on the impact of empire on the origins and development of London's National Gallery. Deadline: 14 May 2021 Find out more:
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RT @danies394: Hi, hello, if you deal with 18th/19th-century caricature prints AT ALL, you need to read this book. The research and the car…
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Thrilled to receive my author’s copy of “Empire and Mobility” today- great to see it in print, thanks editors!
"Empire and Mobility" my new book co-edited with @merrimanpete features chapters by @HuwJDav @inneskeighren @drsarahbthomas Dr Justine Atkinson @nataliercox @CathyColeborne @NualaCj @martin_mahony Dr Liz Millard and @CresswellTim Thanks to everyone!
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Final reminder: fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship 'Slave-ownership and the National Portrait Gallery, London'. Examines links between the NPG and historical transatlantic slavery. Closes 3 June! @BirkbeckUoL @NPGLondon @MuseumsBirkbeck
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Very excited to announce this new funded PhD opportunity looking at the history of the National Portrait Gallery in relation to slave-ownership
Birkbeck & @NPGLondon are offering a fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership grant from Oct. 2020, for PT or FT PhD research examining the links between the National Portrait Gallery and historical transatlantic slavery. Find out more:
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RT @Dr_C_Robinson: Only a few days left to apply for this fab opportunity to be a #curator @WattsGallery - a chance to join the dynamic tea…
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Great eg of a museum engaging with its audiences in a meaningful way
As it's LGBTQ+ history month, we would like you to tell us which queer spaces you think should be memorialised in our new museum. Comment below. #NewMuseumQuestionTime @LGBTHM @waji35 #LGBTHistoryMonth Find out more about the new Museum of London:
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RT @analuciaraujo_: #OTD --> W. E. B. Dubois was born on February 23, 1868. Historian, sociologist, writer, editor, and civil rights pionee…
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RT @NHSMillion: If everyone who has ever been grateful for the NHS followed and retweeted we would reach a million by midnight It takes ju…
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