'Australia’s major research universities have warned that declining support for the humanities could threaten the country’s ability to operate in its region.' 1/3

today, 11/06! Book launch at NYU *Decolonizing Afghanistan* (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2025 )with MATTHIEU AIKINS, WAZHMAH OSMAN, ZOHRA SAED, MORWARI ZAFAR! Come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZG...

'Abundance' folks and data wonks won't like this analysis, but, that's the point—this is excellent from Adom Getachew. The knee-jerk 'tack right, tack left' style of commentary misses how broader structures of material power & human complexity shapes political life. www.equator.org/articles/he-...

Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

Thank you, Chicago.

This is a fabulous and important essay. "In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."

National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... #Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️

That Enoch Powell went from imperialist and aspiring viceroy of India to ‘England-first’ nationalist with some liberal social views and conservative proto-Thatcherite economics should warn us against all the dominant frameworks for studying the contemporary far-right.

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A truly model club

Historians, community leaders, activists and Philadelphians gathered Saturday at The President’s House, located at 6th and Market streets, to oppose potential changes to the historic site’s exhibit on slavery during George Washington’s presidency. whyy.org/articles/sla...

A special treat from the Together for Palestine event last night in London. Frozen to myself I got nobody on my side And surely that ain't right Surely that ain't right The words cut deeper than ever before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Am...

"One foundation of that wall of fear has been the association of the words “Palestine” and “terror” – the result of a deliberate, decades-long campaign to conflate the two. That same conflation was made in the 1980s with Nelson Mandela." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Terrible. Most of the Post's left-leaning columnists had departed, as it became clear it would be harder to publish our views under the new mandate for the Opinion section and/or we were encouraged to go. Karen stayed. But it seems clear the Post was not open to that and found a way to fire her.

Deossa is very good. Betis have a real talent on their hands. He might be too good to leave out even once Isco returns.

bari is a very familiar figure for anyone with experience in authoritarian states; the most sophisticated and careerist variety of informer.

Today, I showed my students in "Britain and the Muslim World" a clip from the 1987 production of Othello in apartheid South Africa. Here’s an interview with the director, reflecting on John Kani’s performance and the charged political stakes of staging Othello. www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/n...

Very excited that the Asian Legal History Association will be formally launched at 2 events in March 2026--at Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 17-18, 2026) + Oxford (March 23)! Here's the Call for Papers for "Legal History in Asia and Beyond" (due Oct31): www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

My blog talking about British Library holdings after my experience as a 2025 Eccles Institute Visiting Fellow. TLDR: Do apply to the Visiting Fellowship!

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

Iñigo Pérez really has picked up exactly where Iraola left off. This Rayo side is simply mouthwatering.

🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.

Wow--incredible interview with Arundhati Roy on her mother, rising authoritarianism in India and the US, and other things: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...

Contemporary writers across South Asia and its diaspora show that the Partition of 1947 is not just history but continues to shape lives and identities, writes @surbhigupta.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/write...

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

#Victorian #Birmingham was an important stop on the grand tours of various Muslim rulers, all eager to learn from the city of a thousand trades. 🔒 Nile Green’s article from the September issue is available in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996: “I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope." Read more about why history matters and the importance of historical thinking in public life.

'Italy circumvented this [requirement that a visa be in place to travel] by taking data once students had crossed the border while Ireland waived the requirement and took 16 students in May. France and Belgium have also evacuated students.' If Giorgia Meloni's government has managed it....

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm 📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?

Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide. This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?

… and then they will turn around and blame you for not having majors and butts in seats. 🤷🏻‍♀️

When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…

‘2023 polling for the @britishacademy.bsky.social found 71 per cent of Britons would support making language study compulsory in schools.’ Pleased to see this FT editorial makes the case for learning foreign languages on.ft.com/4mP3rrf

"Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?" wrote Mohamed Salah in a pointed response to a UEFA post about the death of Suleiman Obeid. @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social speaks to Obeid's friends and family in Gaza to answer those questions and tell of the life of the 'Palestinian Pele'.

The resurgence and growth of bookstores undermines ‘death of reading’ narratives that dominate our AI-obsessed infospheres

NAM is a great place for object history in London, but a very underrated archive in general.

If Premier League watchers knew the Rayo Vallecano team Iraola almost qualified for Europe with, they would not be underestimating Iraola’s ability to cope with all of Bournemouth’s losses this summer.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

“Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

India bans books and police raid bookstores in crackdown on ‘false narrative’ in Kashmir Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and historian Victoria Schofield www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/k...

"...challenges should not be met by sacrificing the University’s long and distinguished commitment to excellence in humanistic inquiry in general and South Asian studies in particular. "

Unavoidable recourse in syllabus prep

New #DigitalHistory site: South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories "explores the links among South Asians across the United Kingdom, as well as the connections between South Asians and other groups in Britain, from the 1830s to the present day." southasianbritain.org/about-databa... #History 🗃️

The views on the Edinburgh-London train really are special