Our most recent Current Debates essay is now out. In "The East India Company as Landowner" John Marriott considers the legal origins of British colonial rule in India. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

Trump 2.0’s political war against democracy in Honduras www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Have a read of our recent current debate 'AI Empire: The Rise of Technocolonialism' by Mohammad Mohi Uddin: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Hot off the press! Check out 'Abolitionist Currents Converging on the Windward Coast: Land Negotiations in 1821 for a U.S. Colony in West Africa' by C. Patrick Burrowes: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

My piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol... Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/7 Some important books have been published recently, by leading experts on the history of slavery. What they say is critical when weighing up Commonwealth reparations claims.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

See the latest #OpenAccess current debate 'Late Colonial Unreason' by Bill Schwarz: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Check out the recent article 'Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums' by Gareth Knapman, Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde & Jocelyn S. Bardot: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay is now out! In "Late Colonial Unreason" Bill Schwarz reflects on the continuities of colonialism in the present. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...

What role did Australian police forces play in generating Aboriginal cultural artefacts for museums? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled: "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide" Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social). networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social). networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Immensely excited that we will soon be offering this venerable programme. Huge thanks to the excellent @jonasgjerso.bsky.social for initiating PPE!

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Scholars include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo

We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New book review published at @jich.bsky.social @joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' @versobooks.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?' by Sibylle Scheipers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org + brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge - bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system

Excited to read this new article by @johnmunro.bsky.social that thinks about Palestine and “the problem of urban automobility” together and shows how “the Big Ride for Palestine illuminates integral connections between environment and empire at our present conjuncture.”

Our latest 'Current Debates' essay in @jich.bsky.social is now out! In 'Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine' @johnmunro.bsky.social highlights the connections between decolonial activism with environmentalist mobility justice. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just released & #OpenAccess, check out 'Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa' by Rotem Giladi: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist

📅 Save the date! The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled: Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide 🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw More details to follow.

Just published! Check out 'Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment' by Brian Smith: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post). "Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."

Also looking for a reviewer for this new book for the @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested! kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/

This book is slightly older, but still keen for a reviewer for this book for @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested! www.mqup.ca/civilization...

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess

It’s hard to make real satire these days as it is so close to reality.

See the latest book review written by Augustine Meaher on 'The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence' by Rebecca Kenneison, Oxford, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Just a reminder that I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and am always looking for people to pitch reviews of recent books on British imperialism, colonialism and the Commonwealth (broadly defined). Send me a DM or email! www.tandfonline.com/journals/fic...

Nytt temanummer av DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur! Temaet denne gangen er "Kontroversiell religion" og gjesteredaktører er Dr. Henriette Hanky og Dr. Kristoffer Løkken Økland. ojs.novus.no/index.php/DI...

Very happy to have contributed to De Gruyter Handbook of Ocean Governance and Maritime Affairs with a chapter on the shipping industry. My background as a shipping analyst could finally be put to some use! doi.org/10.1515/9783...

It is always a pleasure hosting Bill Schwarz here at Future Pasts Group! Join us for tomorrow's lecture, entitled: “A Phantasmatic History” (Hulda Garborgs hus, rom O-134, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday 24th September). #HistoryUiS

Professor Emeritus Bill Schwarz of @qmul.bsky.social delivered a magisterial lecture entitled "Colonial Unreason" on the continuities of empire today at @unistavanger.bsky.social.

We are excited to announce that Volume 53 Issue 5 (2025) is now out! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

I've published 'The Genocide that Changed the World', my fullest overview of Israel's genocide and its implications, as part of a new roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies from @journalgenocide.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just released and #OpenAccess, check out '‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey' by Jane Lydon: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Yes! Buy a copy - and ask your local library to buy one too. 🏰 + 🐷 + discount : what’s not to love?!?

These aren't "culture wars"—this is an all-out authoritarian hostile takeover of American civil society. Viewed from Europe, it's a premonition of what could happen here if right-wing populists come to power.

Our latest opinion piece in our ongoing debate over the repatriation of the Parthenon sculptures is now out. In "Recorded facts and different stories" @dr-m-trabucco.bsky.social argues in favour of retention.