Lydia Walker

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social reviews Lydia Walker's @lydiawalker.bsky.social States in Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

A very happy 90th to Prof Rajmohan Gandhi!

All set up at #SHAFR2025. Stop by and say hello. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Many thanks!

🏆 We are pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker (@lydiawalker.bsky.social) and Dr Sandhya Fuchs. Read the full announcement and the winners’ profiles in our latest blogpost: royalasiaticsociety.org/the-james-j-...

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Line of people, some wearing traditional Naga dress, standing on the lawn outside the museum.

From 8-14 June Pitt Rivers is hosting a Naga delegation for a visit focusing on the repatriation of Naga ancestral remains & exploring future care. The Museum holds the largest collection of Naga material in the world, much of which was collected by colonial administrators in the early 20th century.

Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation In 1961, West Papuan leaders declared their intent to become an independent nation in opposition to both Dutch colonial control and Indonesia’s campaign to incorporate the territory into its Republ...

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great program, timely and important topic - very glad I can attend.

Great to see you and receive such useful feedback!

Heading back home from a flying visit to Cambridge to comment on a chapter for @lydiawalker.bsky.social’s fascinating new book project on post-SWW interventions ☺️ Also managed to squeeze in a visit to the brilliant ‘Rise Up’ exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum - definitely worth a visit ✊🪧

States-in-Waiting Cambridge Core - Global History - States-in-Waiting

To think more about how "we narrate the history of decolonization in ways that acknowledge both its state-centric trajectory and the persistence of sub-state movements" - the book is available Open Access via Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Maintaining the Faith in Global Decolonization Historians of decolonization tend to present the moment of independence as the culmination of nationalist struggles, and the achievement of political sover

Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

Book cover for Operation Vulture by John Prados.

Only recently discovered that I needed this. How I wish John Prados was still with us. Will be writing about Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu, and the war declaration that didn't happen.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Catherine Davies, Bernard Keo, Adam Mestyan, Lauren Stokes, Stefanie Gänger, Dominique Reill, Heather Jones, Jennifer Altehenger, Sarah Bellows-Blakely, Abosede George, Quinn Slobodian

Delighted to announce the program of our Global History Colloquium @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, which I co-convene with Isabella Löhr and Sebastian Conrad this summer. All welcome.

A revisionist history of the United Nations* The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challe

8/ Viewpoint: "A revisionist history of the United Nations"

by Alanna O’Malley (@unileiden.bsky.social) and @lydiawalker.bsky.social (@osuhistory.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

A privilege to publicly engage w/such an important book. H-Diplo's Roundtable on @drmargottudor.bsky.social's Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: “particularly strong on the United Nations’ conceptions of territoriality and its relationships to time."

Past & Present Fellowships Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025

For full details and how to apply see below:

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

History job alert! Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at NYU. Looking for historians of war & the military, *broadly defined*, in *any* geographical area. 1/1, renewable up to 3 yrs, pay is much better than listed! I'm on the cmte, happy to answer Qs. Info: apply.interfolio.com/161728

📢 Exciting News! JGH is hosting a Development Editing Workshop. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond.

mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive

@mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

Researchers: NARA has digitized hundreds of thousands of operational reports from US units in the Pacific Theater of WWII, to include divisional reports with regimental reports, maps, and sketches.

It’s a gold mine. Go nuts

catalog.archives.gov/id/305275

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond.

mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive

@mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale
on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

What is behind the explosion in talk about decolonisation? | Aeon Essays There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?

The wonderful historian Lydia Walker (@lydiawalker.bsky.social), "What is decolonisation?" (@aeon.co; #skystorians, #history): aeon.co/essays/what-...

Thanks, John!