This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532. The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69. The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses. At least five were later murdered by the Taliban. The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.

'In response to these trends, Behrens argued that a shift toward more plant-based diets is not simply advisable, but likely inevitable. This view is grounded not in consumer preference, but in biophysical constraints and economic modeling.'

Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on this day in 1968. R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽

I'm rather thrilled with this review of my book in the journal American Historical Review! @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #india #WW2 #emotionalhistory

Thanks to all that attended our event on telling difficult histories with award-winning BBC podcasters Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane and our brilliant colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social! Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.

How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social "The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Our wonderful colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social will interview journalists Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane about the making of their acclaimed @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast on the famine. It will be an important event for all historians of India, British colonialism, and humanitarianism.

City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣 First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

I am loving teaching Ambedkar and Gandhi to my second-year undergraduate students for my South Asia module. You can tell from their faces that both Gandhi and Ambedkar's philosophical positions resonate with them, and with the inequalities they witness everyday. @cityhistory.bsky.social

I am delighted to have this blog post on #1943BengalFamine and #emotions published by History Matters, Sheffield University's research blog. It feels like a promising start! Please do read and let me know your thoughts. historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive... @cityhistory.bsky.social

Today, I spoke about #india #SecondWorldWar #emotionalhistory at City & Islington sixth form college. The students were wonderful! I'm still thinking about their questions. My resolution: keep talking about my work to young people. @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Really delighted to have taken part in #ImperialWarMuseum's latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social

A new and exciting funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starts in October 2025. “War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47” www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ... Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!

If you'd like to join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social - as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or PGR Member - we welcome applications at any time bit.ly/45lOzr0 Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.

Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...

Today, Prospect announced our 2025 World’s Top #Thinkers shortlist. Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵 For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...

Very happy to have my review of Vivienne Guo's excellent book 'Women and Politics in Wartime China' published! Here's to foregrounding marginalised histories of #WW2 @cityhistory.bsky.social @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social www.swwresearch.com/post/book-re...

At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating. From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)! (Part 1) 🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈

I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/zUV84F

Mukul Kesavan on the US election: www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/exit...

I am so pleased to be interviewed in this documentary where journalist Mobeen Khan traces the journey of his grandfather Nawab Din's experiences in the Indian Army in #WW2. Do watch!

Dalrymple has done a lot of good for public knowledge of South Asian history — He has published a ton, drawn attention to Indo-Muslim cultures, and all in an accessible writing style. But he has been criticized for not grasping historical causality at times. Very much on display here—

Fellow RHS Fellows! A quick reminder that I am running for Council amongst some other excellent colleagues. If you haven't voted yet, don't forget or check your junk mail!

I recently received the news that my book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2024 Gladstone Prize! My father would be very happy. There would be no research, and no book, without him. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Job alert: We are looking to hire a lecturer in modern history at City. Candidates with expertise in Africa or Latin America particularly encouraged to apply. Happy to answer any questions. Please share!

We have an incredible opportunity at City, University of London! A permanent Lectureship in Modern History, with a preference for Modern Africa/Latin America. The History cohort is small and lovely. Please apply and be my colleague! 😊 www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase is going to be brilliant this year with a range of talks, exhibits, workshops and screenings. Speakers include David Olusoga, Zeinab Badawi, Susan Michie and Gary Younge. 12/13 July. Tickets are free www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/profess...

Exciting news! Applications open for a CDP studentship with @peterajohnston.bsky.social and me, starting October, on 'Visualising India's Wars in South-East Asia, 1938-1947.' You'll study at City, University of London and Imperial War Museums. Details here: www.iwm.org.uk/sites/defaul... #ww2 #india

It’s just “Manual of Style” now.

Thrilled by this review of my book in the Hindustan Times! #india #secondworldwar #emotionalhistory @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

The History Department at the University of York UK, is looking for a historian of South Asia for a permanent lectureship. Please spread the word! We are a great department with lovely colleagues jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

The History Department at the University of York is excited to launch a new PhD by Practice - a route for anyone with significant experience of public history practice or research in museums, archives, heritage organisations, the media or education. york. www.york.ac.uk/history/stud...

I'm so, so delighted to have been interviewed and served as academic consultant for this pathbreaking new series on the #1943BengalFamine - BBC Radio 4's 'Three Million', released today. Please do listen! #india #ww2 #emotionalhistory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

History Workshop is on Bluesky! We seek to 🕯️ deepen understandings of the past 🔥 cast fresh light on the present ☄️ agitate for change in the world Please add us, @ us, repost us, chat to us & write for us As ever, you can read & listen to cutting-edge radical history at www.historyworkshop.org.uk

If you're in Leeds, don't miss the Migration Museum's pop-up exhibition, Heart of the Nation: Migration & the NHS (Trinity Leeds, G Floor, opposite Boots, Albion Street). It closes 18 February.

'This reviewer’s overall impression is that India in the Second World War: An Emotional History is an excellent book, innovative, well-constructed, and superbly written.' 🙏 I'm over the moon! More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Some great PhD opportunities here - including one on place identity and the colonial legacy of street names in in four cities wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

We're hiring at @prospectmagazine.bsky.social !. We're looking for a Head of Digital Audience + a Senior Editor to join a small, friendly team working out of offices in Westminster. Details below - +please forward/RT to anyone you think might be interested www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/jobs-and-vac...

WORKSHOP #CFP, University of Edinburgh, 13 Sept 2024. Exploring how best to ethically pursue and undertake research into Britain's history of slavery, colonialism and race. **DEADLINE 31 MARCH 2024** #18thC 🗃️ #skystorians

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Please join us on Thurs 1 Feb at 6pm GMT for the first Royal Historical Society lecture of 2024: 'Charting Authority after Empire: Documentary Culture & Political Legitimacy in Post-Carolingian Europe' with @drlroach.bsky.social 🗃️ In person: shorturl.at/IRTW0 Online: shorturl.at/jkmwL All welcome!

See also thus brilliant project on South Asian migrant communities and placemaking / Beyond Banglatown: beyondbanglatown.org.uk

Two funded studentships at University of Sussex for Black, British students: fees for up to 4 years, maintenance allowance at UKRI levels (currently at £18,662) & £3k p.a research costs. Topics incl. Postcolonial and Diasporic Modernities; Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity and Visual Culture....