This is the text of a lecture I delivered at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, on August 21, 2026. It reflects decades of thinking and writing and engagements with other …

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Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves

Academics and activists condemn Birmingham City University's closure of the eight-month old course.

Museum says Jain texts were acquired ‘against the best interests of their original owners’

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health.  Disabled Empire exami...

Abstract. The introduction sets out the book’s core argument that body size—fatness and thinness—assumed new significance in Germany from the late fifteent

In this workshop, led by a leading specialist on British colonialism and its afterlives, we will learn how to talk about Britain's colonial past with nuanc

Professor of Cultural History of the Body Willemijn Ruberg will give her inaugural lecture.

Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins ...

Buddha’s sacred jewels, unearthed in 1898, head to auction at Sotheby’s, raising ethical concerns.

As Hudson's Bay heads to court seeking permission to auction off 1,700 pieces of art and more than 2,700 artifacts, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is requesting a halt to the sale of items that may b...

Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...

Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation

Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know it

Please join the History Department for a talk with Dr. Severyan Dyakonov, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, entitled “The Soviet Red Cross in 1950s-60s India.” Abstract: During 1950s-60s decolonization, the ...

A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"

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Abstract. This article explores how the biological realities and cultural constructions of ageing combined to influence a daily decision taken by Victorian

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mobilizing Museum Minerals Launch Event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

This special issue of Museum & Society showcases burgeoning critical approaches to the collection, interpretation, and display of mineralogical specimens in museums while expanding understandings of t...

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Over 2,500 archive files and 300,000 images from the British colonial period have been handed over to Kenya.

The world's first carbon-14 diamond has been produced with the potential to provide power for thousands of years.