Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Do join us to hear @kalathmika.bsky.social speak on her important new book

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67– with Dr Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter). Join us for a public seminar this Wednesday. 📍Oxford Department for International Development  📅 5pm-6pm, 18 Feb Registration not required

Small niece has announced that she is moving in and we can be her parents. Sister and BIL can visit. Obviously the new puppy has nothing to do with this.

Snowdrops. #goodsign

New member of the family

Trying to update some reading lists. Would love recommendations on books and articles on the scramble for and partition of Africa, especially more recent ones. #skystorians

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀? The UniGR-CBS is pleased to announce the launch of its 2026 Research Fellowships! Eligible are postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, and professors. Apply now (28/02/2026): fellow.borderstudies.org

Today is the publication day for my new novel Maryam & Son, a book I’ve lived with for six years. It’s out in the world now for you to have it. Available from bookstores across India and online.

If you’re in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, “devouring”), looks excellent:

Scottish influence on South Indian Carnatic music (composition in Sanskrit): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...

I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop: Call for Papers Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop: Call for Papers Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.

The good folks at India's The Wire have recruited me to write a regular column on history. In this inaugural essay, I talk about the myths around the history of plastic surgery and the Sushruta-samhita, & about the semi-famous Cowasjee who got a "nose job" in 1794. thewire.in/history/the-...

academic friends: li'l help here? I'd like to get added to a starter pack or 2 but I must be missing something b/c I'm having no luck. Historian of #earlymodern Scandinavia, esp. Denmark/Oldenburg dynastic state, war & religion. You'd have my semi-eternal gratitude

Two weeks to go! "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨ Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/... @sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

By the time I wear the 26 layers I need to leave the house I need a nap.

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New joiners today? Historians of South Asia starter pack below: go.bsky.app/zUV84F

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

New joiners today? Historians of South Asia starter pack below: go.bsky.app/zUV84F

They don’t dance together anymore but Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy were 👌 in this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...

What if Sri Lanka’s Muslim past is best read through monsoon-route pilgrims & merchants—not empires? What shifts when Arabic, Tamil, Malay, Ottoman, Urdu, Dhivehi, and Sinhala sources meet for the first time in "Serendipitous Translations"?👂🏽to Nile Green: newbooksnetwork.com/serendipitou...

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

The 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize is open to submissions from publishers from 9 December 2025 – 19 January 2026. The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK. Find out more. ⬇️ www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/

Fresh and #OpenAccess, see 'Decolonisation, Unstable Sovereignties and Development: The Indian Sterling Balance Negotiations of 1947' by Atiya Hussain: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb > RHS Workshop Grants > Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social > Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR #Skystorians

Would like to know what fonts academics are using. What is your favourite font?

Happy New Year and peace, love, and understanding to all.

In January I will be jogging a mile a day to raise funds for cancer research and treatment, in memory of my friends Allison Busch and Bruce Wannell, and for everyone whose lives have been and will be affected by cancer. Please do consider sponsoring me! fundraise.royalmarsden.org/fundraisers/...

We’re in Southeast Asia and I’ve heard ‘Let it Snow’ 6000 times.

Celebrate this festive season, help us bring books to our readers. At our free Library, thousands of children, first-generation learners, are waiting for their wish listed books. You can contribute directly: give.do/fundraisers/... #SupportFreeLibrary #BooksForAll #RightToRead

Never hear the implosive ɗ apart from when people are speaking Sindhi around me but today I heard it in a conversation between two people speaking in Khmer. Was dosing and the distinctive sound woke me up.

A fantastic resource for teaching! A new primary source collection of 83 translated texts on "Global Histories of 20th Century MENA" (edited by Cyrus Schayegh, Geneva) went online as part of Exeter University's Digital Archive of the Middle East: humanities-collections.exeter.ac.uk/dame/s/en/it...

On the importance of Tolerance as the very bedrock of the freedoms we so love: "We don’t think twice before listing freedom as an essential value and as a fundamental right. However, we often forget the other side of the civic coin – toleration."

I woke up to the news that my book, "The Disinherited," was awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize by the Harvard University Press Board of Syndics. I am so grateful for the recognition.

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

London parakeets

Please share widely. Let's create a list of BA/BS and MA/MS programs that provide support for refugee scholars and scholars at risk. Thank you!!!

Husband showing me a lot of love today.

New on refugeehistory.org -

URGENT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the public seminar scheduled for this evening, ‘Decolonization’s forgotten children: Refugees and the stateless as ecological agents in South Asia’ has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash

Calling all researchers in forced migration, apply now for the RSC Michaelmas Term (Oct – Dec) 2026 Visiting Fellowship programme & the new Sally Hogg Prize to support applicants from low-income countries or with lived experience of forced displacement. More info: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sal...

Uttara Shahani, RSC Research Fellow in the History of Forced Migration, has co-authored this insightful Op-ed in the Times of India commenting on the enduring impacts of Partition on the Sindhi Hindu community 70 years on. The image shows the full article: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...

Hot off the press! So pleased to see that our volume "Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law" is out and available fully open access. Find the link below.

'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.