New on the blog! @nickbhattacharya.bsky.social explores the gendered nature of parish welfare in Devon #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/the-prejudic...

What historical insights can the past offer about human agency and effective policymaking in the present? Read my new article here: imperialglobalexeter.com/2026/04/08/a... #History #EmpireStudies #GlobalHistory #Policy #PublicPolicy #HumanRights #Research #Humanities #LaborHistory

My latest piece in @echistsoc.bsky.social’s The Long Run Blog explores a simple but unsettling question: how can government policy be officially race-neutral, yet still produce racialised outcomes? Read it here: ehs.org.uk/subsidising-...

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Subsidising Whiteness: British Shipping and Racialised Politics after the Great Depression'. Shagnick Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar) presents their research, which was supported by the 2026 Joint BME Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/subsidising-...

How did the caste system function aboard ships in the twentieth century? Shagnick Bhattacharya explores the history of lascars. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/shipb...

As seamen criss-crossed the oceans in British ships in the Interwar period, Shagnick Bhattacharya @uniofexeternews.bsky.social discusses 2 examples of subaltern 'smugglers' & the problem confronting the Imperial Government. blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20... @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social

Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars