📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body" I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

Such sad news to hear that Geoffrey Bindman KC has passed away. One of the architects of UK equality and human rights law, he was an inspirational figure - as well as being kind & extremely good company. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...

📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

“In the regime we live in today, thinking freely itself is perilous” Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail

New password must contain 16 characters???? In this economy?????

Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Editor, Nishah Malik, is an article from 1915 depicting Indian soldiers who served in the British Army during the First World War.

Bakerloo line extension, please.

Aftab Pureval, the son of a Punjabi immigrant and a Tibetan refugee, beating JD Vance’s brother is the kind of desi-coded schafenfreude that will keep me going for months 🤣😂 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.

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Bad commute this morning but dhoom machale is getting me through it 👌

Very much looking forward to speaking about my book 'Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception' on the Equality Talks series next Tuesday 11 November 2025 @5pm UK time, 6:00pm CET. For details and to join: academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/en/news/equa...

My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from @rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW

Or an interface like this. Brilliant collection but why this way. nehruselectedworks.com

“Those who can study all day should study and those who cannot should support scholars.” From a 1720 will. Seems sound to me.

A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for @scroll.in scroll.in/article/1087...

Psyched by this motivational tip from @austinkleon.bsky.social

One of the crazier stories in my book is that of Amar Nath Dutt, who tried to blackmail some of the Indian revolutionaries in Paris. His bluff was called and after a brief prison term, he left for Argentina to become a magician, later going by the name Linga Singh. thewire.in/books/servan...

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

A circulating video of slain Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi, who was killed by Israeli-backed gangs this evening.

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories. 💸 Grants up to £1000. ⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025. #history #apply #funding #opportunity socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter.... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

I'm sure Du Bois scholars know about this already but was not aware of this online resource of Bu Bois' papers at Umass Amhearst. Absolutely amazing stuff in here. credo.library.umass.edu/view/collect...

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26 Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social Apply by 1 October 2025 buff.ly/tQABBo4

Just bought a litter picker for my niece who requested it for her 9th birthday. Taking it back for my voluntary contribution so my ILR is not cancelled.

Looking forward to the European Conference on South Asian Studies in Heidelberg, October 1-4. In case you are in town, please join us for our double panel on Thursday, October 2, starting at 08.30 am:

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Beyond ridiculous decision www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

It would be great if even one genuine journalist in a live broadcast interview could challenge Farage on the entirely fictitious £234 billion 'saving' that even the right wing think tank that made it up has now withdrawn because it's b******s

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

I reviewed Rob Waters’ ‘Colonised by Humanity’ for American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-.... It is an excellent, timely monograph!

I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:

This @thetimes.com article quotes @catbriddick.bsky.social extensively on the implications of a possible UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

What plants look like coreopsis but aren’t coreopsis? I am an abject failure at growing coreopsis.

JOB: Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History, Penn State "The Department is searching for an innovative and highly accomplished scholar whose research emphasizes connections or movements across political and/or regional boundaries." www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

'...my concerns with these are the safety of separated children if they can't make applications to join family members'. @catbriddick.bsky.social was quoted in @thetimes.com on the UK government's decision this week to halt the family reunion route for refugees: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Review for Miracle-Gro grass seed.

JOB: Associate/Full Professor, Dr. Davindra Singh Chair in Sikh Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga History of Religions Program, Department of Historical Studies universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...