Event Type: HA

Takes Place: 22nd September 2026

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Online

Description: Jake Subryan Richards is Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research lies at the intersection of legal history, the history of the African diaspora, and the history of empires. Join him this September where he will be discussing his first book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade, which was named a Book of the Year for 2025 by the Times Literary Supplement. Richards has also published articles in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Modern Intellectual History. Richards cocurated the exhibition, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2023–2024. He coedited the accompanying catalogue. His next project investigates how people in sub-Saharan Africa formed political communities against enslavement, with a focus on southwestern Nigeria. Richards has received a fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation for this project.

How to book: Book via Zoom link below

Price: Free & open to all. Recordings of talk will be available to HA members.

Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t6NGnuMnQ8WWVWjNwUzSHg

Organiser: HA

Lecturer: Jake Subryan Richards