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Historian of borders, migration, and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 14h

Tbh, wouldn’t have minded a bit of literary analysis instead of the Life in the UK test.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 1d

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

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

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

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 15d

📢 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-...

Joint BME Small Grants

The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 14d

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/...

In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, she’ll explore ways in which popular history – trade publishing for a wide public audience – has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherine’s lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions – from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.

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Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social · 12d

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....

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 8d

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...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 6d

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...

W. E. B. Du Bois Papers Overview

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 20d

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

Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 10d

Article seems to suggest lack of the required skills + just no desire to do this job.

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Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled workers visas

Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 14d

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

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 14d

📣 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
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Quentin Skinner Lectureship - CRASSH

A Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15d

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:

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 16d

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Partition, Passport and the Documentary Life of Belonging | Critical Pakistan Studies | Cambridge Core

Partition, Passport and the Documentary Life of Belonging

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

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 ☀️

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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Aditya Balasubramanian @abalasub.bsky.social · 22d

Beyond ridiculous decision

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 25d

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...

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920

The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social · 26d

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

The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order

2025 marks the centenary of the passing of the ‘Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, requiring maritime workers of colour to register with the police and forcing them to bear a Certifica...

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 27d

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

Rob Waters. Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire

In Enoch Powell’s often quoted 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, the Conservative Party politician warned against the dangers of rising immigration from Brita

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Di Volpe @dianavolpe.bsky.social · 26d

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:

Frey Lindsay @freylindsay.bsky.social · 26d

Everybody knows the Libyan Coast Guard is involved in the mass abuse/torture/murder of people in Libya. Over the years this hasn't been enough for the EU to break off its partnership. The LCG is now targeting NGOs - apparently that used to be a Commission red line, but we'll see if it still is.

Beyond Slavery @beyondslavery.bsky.social · 27d

The Libyan Coast Guard fired hundreds of bullets at a rescue ship. The European Commission had suggested direct fire would be a ‘red line’. Now the line has been crossed, they show no signs of ending the partnership with Libya. ✍️ @freylindsay.bsky.social

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

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