Saint Balthild statue at Luxembourg Garden. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Twenty years ago along with an American colleague I published a translation of and commentary on various Merovingian sources from seventh century Francia (France). Amongst them was the Life of a Queen Balthild who turned out to be very unusual. She had been a…
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Stokely Carmichael in London: The birth of the British Black Power Movement?
In the month of October we will be marking Black History Month by sharing a series of short essays written by four recent graduates of the History Department at the University of Manchester. These students were part of Kerry Pimblott’s third year seminar on the Black Freedom Movement and were tasked with putting their new…
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