Drinks will be served following the lecture.

Dr Fryar is a writer and independent historian of modern Britain, the British Empire, and the modern Caribbean. After taking a PhD in History at Princeton University, she lectured at Duke University, SUNY Buffalo State, the University of Liverpool, and Goldsmiths, University of London. At Goldsmiths, Dr Fryar created and convened the MA in Black British History, the first taught Masters’ degree of its kind in the United Kingdom.

Since leaving academia in 2023, Dr Fryar has been researching and writing her monograph, Entangled Lands: A Caribbean History of Britain, set to be published by Allen Lane/University of California Press in 2025. In 2020, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio.