George Roberts
george-roberts.bsky.social
George Roberts
@george-roberts.bsky.social
Historian, mainly of Kenya, Tanzania and Comoros
Call for Papers: Beyond the Box: Re-Thinking Global Histories of Contemporary #Shipping

I'm hosting a workshop with my colleague Betty Banks in Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2026

More details here - networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
September 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I've got a new article out in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social

It's about the 'paper famine' of the 1970s, the causes and consequences of newsprint shortages in the developing world, and how we can think about print media as material infrastructure

There's a graph, too

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM