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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#histSTM #histsci and adjacent #bookprize Please share widely!

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I knew I disliked Hegel …

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

South Asia at Reading this semester Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 11/09/2025

Aerial archaeology began not in neutral curiosity but in the violence of colonial Syria. Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.

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The Bomber's View of the Past

Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 30/08/2025

The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2025 goes to Professor Sadiah Qureshi for the distinguished and internationally-recognised specialism in subjects related to science, race and empire. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Surprised and delighted to receive the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize from @apha.org for lifetime achievement in public health history. Hoping to be at the APHA meeting in DC in early November to collect it. #publichealth #sts #histstm #histmed #histsci

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

At the David Attenborough Studio (Natural History Museum, London) for a 'Climate action night' rountable on 'Insects, collections, colonialism'

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Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Honoured and delighted to hear that my book has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. The two winners will be announced in July: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...

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Royal Historical Society First Book Prize, 2025 – Shortlisted Titles | Historical Transactions

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Book cover for Vanished. Features a nineteenth-century print with a fossilised mastodon skeleton, Asian elephant being ridden by a turbaned man, Native and colonial figures looking on. In the background is a mountainous landscape and there is also a single passenger pigeon in the sky. The whole scene is framed by an ornate frame and foliage.

Below the book is the following text: A love letter to the astonishing ways of being that have survived past extinctions, and an exhortation to create a worthwhile world.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/05/2025

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

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Review: Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown

Segregated Species examines the role of pests in early 20th-century South Africa, and traces how conceptions of pestilence changed over time. In this engaging work, Skotnes-Brown links the South Afric...

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Book review of Kathryn Renton's Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World, and its examination of "Spain’s imperial expansion through the unique lens of horse and human relations" muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...

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Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I now have a contract for my forthcoming book!!! Title, for now, ‘Mortality and Measurement: Race, Statistics, and Nineteenth-Century Empire’ (Cambridge, 2026).

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth centu...

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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer. #nonfictionreads

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

These figures are utterly grotesque. Under a Labour government too. (I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real). www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Higher ed institutions are “…natural antidotes against the consolidation of what the founding fathers referred to as “artificial aristocracies founded on wealth and birth.” Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There’s nothing elitist about college or university. We should reject that idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti

Higher education institutions continue to function as powerful engines of social mobility. They need more, not less, support

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I took part in a podcast hosted by the Somerset House, London on the 'Salt hedge of India' that the British govenrment set up in the 19th century. This podcast accompanies an installation that is now on display at the Somerset House on the 'Salt hedge'. channel.somersethouse.org.uk/podcasts/pro...

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Why did the British build a hedge across India?

And how did it manage to disappear with barely a trace?

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Slowly taking shape into a book. Over the moon with the 🐧 colour scheme which just happens to be 🐯 themed too for proofs. More info here, including links to preorder. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254... In two weeks, there will be fewer than 100 days to go. Launch event TBC, but more ASAP.

Bound page proofs of Vanished:An Unnatural History of Extinction. An abstract design in classic Penguin colours of white, black and orange.

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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both! (And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Congratulations @mooregraham.bsky.social on a successful viva yesterday! @rohandroy.bsky.social & I very much enjoyed discussing your #pirate thesis. & congrats to supervisors Richard Blakemore & TNA ... well done Dr Moore ... 👏👏👏

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today we have a revolution that took centuries to happen if it ever really happened at all: The Scientific Revolution. David talks to historian of science Simon Schaffer about what changed in human understanding in the age of Galileo & Newton. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Leverhulme Extinction Studies DTP @extinctionleeds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Congratulations to #Extinction Studies PhD student (now Dr) Jonathan Roberts on successfully defending his thesis yesterday on "Biological and Social aspects of human #hookworm #infection and eradication". Many thanks to @rohandroy.bsky.social for being a thorough and constructive external.

A photograph of Jonathan Roberts (second from left) with his supervisors, enjoying a glass of fizz and a cake.

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hello friends and new followers, 'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal. @historywo.bsky.social It proposes a conversation between environmetal history, history of science, and decolonizing methods. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

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Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia

The minuscule, a narrow gate, opens up an entire world.1

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 07/01/2025

We are please to announce that the new issue of History Workshop Journal 98 is now live! This issue features articles along the theme of 'Unbordered Histories', with many articles available open access. academic.oup.com/hwj...

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Volume 98 Issue | History Workshop Journal | Oxford Academic

A world leading historical journal that publishes a wide variety of essays, reports and reviews, ranging from literary to economic subjects, local history to geopolitical analyses.

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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Robert Clive confronted by ghosts of the Bengal Famine. Cartoon titled "The India Directors in the Suds", 1772. "Suds" was slang for sewage. I used it as the cover image of my book, "The Art of a Corporation: The East India Co as Patron & Collector" (2023). www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book...

A crowd of ghosts dressed in long robes and turbans float upon a cloud towards a man in a frock coat. The man is recoiling in horror, his arms spread out in front of him. He has knocked over a chair and at his feet there is a document with the word "APOLOGY" written across the top of it. In the background, a group of men in frock coats sit passively around a table, observing this supernatural scene.

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now #histstm #histsci #STS

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Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Looking forward to this event in Kolkata!

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Fantastic to see the hard copy of @isisjournal.bsky.social! The Magnifying Insect Histories Focus reflects on the methodological purchase of thinking about 🪲🐝🐛🦂🦟🐜🦋 for doing history of science. Thank U authors + @dominikhhh.bsky.social & Dear editors: your visions enabled us to reach new heights 🙏

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March 2024, 115:1
Focus: Magnifying Insect Histories

Introduction: Expanded Perspectives on Tiny Animals as Epistemic Agents, Lisa Onaga and Dominik Huenniger
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers, Jeannie N. Shinozuka and Rohan Deb Roy
Placing Insects in Histories of Science, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Frederico Freitas
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect, Leah Lui-Chivizhe and Jude Philp
“Ambivalent Insects” as Tools and Targets, Lisa Onaga and Luísa Reis-Castro
A Collection Ecologies Forum: Reevaluating Insects as Archives, Dominik Huenniger, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Christian Reiß, and Xiaoya Zhan
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/isis/focus

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Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...

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Call for MBH Book Review Editor

Modern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/12/2024

Letters, food and ephemera - material objects have acted as radical agents in history. In this thread, explore some radical objects: How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum. www.historyworkshop....

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Radical Objects: A Radical Jug?

How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.

Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This contains a substantial section on people of African descent in Brandenburg-Prussia as well as an insightful discussion of the role of festivities👇

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