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Farage on the entirely fictitious £234 billion 'saving' that even the right wing think tank that made it up has now withdrawn because it's b******s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/?...

Only 246 footnotes in this chapter.

Part of ethnically cleansing a population is cleansing the language used to describe it. That it's so common now doesn't make it any less obscene. Those who produce and approve such copy should be ashamed of themselves, but that's likely a capacity they drowned a long while ago.

Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social! Releasing on 18 August.

Last call for applications to 2 paid, part-time editorial fellowships at History Workshop. Come and work with us! Hands-on training and experience in public history within a supportive and creative team of ECRs. Deadline: this Friday

Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel? Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs. www.youtube.com/@iehs_org?ap...

I wrote a thing and it’s coming out in January. www.penguin.co.uk/books/444923.... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...

Hend is right. I warned of war crimes early on but it took me way to long to accept the fact that a genocide is unfolding in front of our eyes. Raz Segal was right in his op ed, written only days after Oct 7, that Israel's retaliation campaign against Gaza was becoming a "textbook case of genocide"

I wanted to write a short #BlogPost for #InternationalTigerDay, I also added a bunch of photographs in it from over the years. ss.lucidillusions.in/blog/2025-07... Give it a read maybe? #Mammals #Photography #SciArt

Cat Kumar, son of Catty Boss and Catiya Devi, applies for a residential certificate in Bihar.

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jim Mallinson (Boden Prof. of #Sanskrit, Oxford) interviewed by Kshitij Jain on his edition & translation of the Dattātreyayogaśāstra -- research that recovers the obscure history of #hatha #yoga. Podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-dattatre...

Sudanese journalist Yousra El Bagir has managed to get some footage out of Al Fashir in Darfur, Sudan. The RSF siege of the city has cut it off from food supply and medical assistance for months. One reason you hear very little about Sudan is that the RSF kills anyone who tries to document the war.

Come to our lovely campus to hear about how @danielalai.bsky.social, Will Jones, Ibrahim Halawi and Mohammad Kalantari and I have been re-designing our ‘intro to IR’ class over the last five years.

I contributed a short essay to the new issue of ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, as part of a forum along with Abdulkader Tayob and Humeira Iqtidar responding to SherAli Tareen's book "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire". www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Used a deleting tool and ended up deleting posts I didn’t want to delete 🙄

@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...

‘the new Reform administration in Kent recently wrote to the home secretary complaining that new rules preventing care homes from hiring from abroad would “leave providers on a cliff edge”.’

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them." A five-year-old child.

Historians! What are your favorite things to give grad students on how to read?

"Traces the genealogy of linear borders between states back to the colonial origins of the practices of territorial delimitation and demarcation and their problematic legacies in international politics." From Frontiers to Borders byKerry Goettlich, Coming Soon #Politics #BookSky cup.org/3TX6wJh

NEW PUBLICATION* - My chapter “Race in the Garden: Eugenics and Utopian Planning” in this volume edited by Lauren Andres, Yasminah Beebeejain, and Yvonne Ryddin is now out. Writing a little summary below! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

From the Supreme Court to local police stations in Delhi, India’s treatment of Rohingya refugees just trying to survive has been disgraceful.

Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢Calling prospective authors! Are you engaged in scholarly research in the field of refugee law? Apply for our online Author Workshop & get feedback on your work from the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Refugee Law. ⏰Deadline to apply: 12 Sept www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/files/events...

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]

Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6 Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians

I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

I am very grateful to @socsci.ox.ac.uk for this award and to my colleagues at @refugeestudies.bsky.social and @odid-qeh.bsky.social for fostering a highly supportive teaching environment. Especially @catbriddick.bsky.social! www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/uttara-...