Newest Discourse on Anticolonialism post is up, and it's an incredibly exciting piece by Shreya Bhattacharya on "Evelyn Trent: Erased Voices and the Radical Struggle Against Imperial Capitalism": open.substack.com/pub/discours...

Really excited to be sharing the first edition of the relaunched Renewal - a journal of social democracy, now co-edited by me, @morganj0nes.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social, and Jack Jeffrey

Now online! @tanroopsandhu.bsky.social (@qmul.ac.uk) reviews "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" in the series Global South Asians (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2022) by @vik1004.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My review of Vikram Visana's "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought" is out now with the Journal of Global Intellectual History! Really enjoyed reading this. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/W3ZC8...

Very excited to share the first essay on HACPT's new Substack, "Discourse on Anticolonialism". Read Kevin D. Pham's fantastic piece, "Taking Asian and African Agency Seriously" here: open.substack.com/pub/discours...

Glad to have my chapter, "The Politics and Place of Rajani Palme Dutt", included in this exciting new volume: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decoloniz...

The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...

Still time to sign up!:

HACPT is back! Join us on Monday 7 April at 5pm (GMT), either in person at the UCL IAS or online, to hear from Dr Mahvish Ahmad and @sarasalem.bsky.social on "Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state".  Sign up and find further details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/18ck...

Used Trotsky's speech "Europe and America" as a jumping off point for a little article for @rs21.bsky.social : revsoc21.uk/2025/03/15/t...

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

A truly evil time

Would you look at how much exciting research there's happening in the School of History at QMUL! Never not impressed with the range and depth of knowledge in this place and excited to hear much more about it from these lovely people.

Very excited about the first HACPT Seminar of 2025, where we'll hear from Dr. Kevin D. Pham on his recent book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization". Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very excited about the first HACPT Seminar of 2025, where we'll hear from Dr. Kevin D. Pham on his recent book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization". Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Between All We Imagine As Light, The Brutalist, Dune 2, Anora, etc, what an amazing year for film

"Questions From A Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht:

British Communist Ben Bradley writes a letter to his mother from a jail in India, 1932: "Spratt, myself, and a couple of others who take European food managed to get a Duck and some green peas, etc..."

Historians of bsky... I'm looking forward to helping put together this exciting new conference at the new Queen Mary Centre for British Studies. Call for papers deadline is 24th January! ⌛

Since we're all here... May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar. Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation". Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Since we're all here... May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar. Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation". Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...