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 should like to dress mainly in cotton sacks and therefore Toast dresses are ideal but sacks should not be so expensive IYKWIM.

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.

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Congratulations to @sfahrenthold.bsky.social's whose book Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Nikki Keddie Book Award @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions. For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website: www.asmcf.org/news/sixteen...

The Introduction to my book OCCUPIED REFUGE is now freely available online: bit.ly/482e3i1 Book will be out 17 Feb 2026 but you can pre-order now: In the Americas: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref... Outside of America: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313... Get 30% off with this promo code: E26BRNKM

Please join us for the next session of the Joint Center for History & Economics seminar (in person and on Zoom) on Fri 21 Nov at 12pm EST. @malickghachem.bsky.social (MIT) will discuss 'Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue & the Debt of France. Click for further information and Zoom link.

Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians

'The science select committee should recognise that its remit covers all of research, and conduct an inquiry into the Library, with a view to helping it recover. It could quantify the funding that is needed to properly rebuild the Library’s digital infrastructure'.

Anyone seeing a Cloudflare outage atm?

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory

Going to lecture my class today with my entire wardrobe on.

📣 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.

Yup

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...