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Golden brown cairn terrier puppy with black muzzle in my son’s arms

New member of the family

Trying to update some reading lists. Would love recommendations on books and articles on the scramble for and partition of Africa, especially more recent ones. #skystorians

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀?
The UniGR-CBS is pleased to announce the launch of its 2026 Research Fellowships! Eligible are postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, and professors.
Apply now (28/02/2026): fellow.borderstudies.org

Today is the publication day for my new novel Maryam & Son, a book I’ve lived with for six years. It’s out in the world now for you to have it. Available from bookstores across India and online.

If you’re in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, “devouring”), looks excellent:

YouTube video by T. M. Krishna - Topic Shauri Vidhi Nute

Scottish influence on South Indian Carnatic music (composition in Sanskrit):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...

Congratulations!!

Toward Partition and Beyond

I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3

Blue poster with images of newspaper article headlines on problems faced by 'Harijans' marginalised castes regarding being 'stranded' at partition, not allowed to migrate, their evacuation, and townships for them.

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Blue poster with images of newspaper article headlines on problems faced by 'Harijans' marginalised castes regarding being 'stranded' at partition, not allowed to migrate, their evacuation, and townships for them.

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.

The History of Sushruta and the Famous 'Indian Nose Job' The famous Cowasji’s unknown “plastic surgeon” was not an elite Ayurvedist, but was nevertheless a skilled practitioner, and belonged to the larger traditions and knowledge-systems of medicine in the ...

The good folks at India's The Wire have recruited me to write a regular column on history. In this inaugural essay, I talk about the myths around the history of plastic surgery and the Sushruta-samhita, & about the semi-famous Cowasjee who got a "nose job" in 1794.
thewire.in/history/the-...

academic friends: li'l help here? I'd like to get added to a starter pack or 2 but I must be missing something b/c I'm having no luck. Historian of #earlymodern Scandinavia, esp. Denmark/Oldenburg dynastic state, war & religion. You'd have my semi-eternal gratitude

Two weeks to go!

"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨

Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

By the time I wear the 26 layers I need to leave the house I need a nap.

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.

What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New joiners today?
Historians of South Asia starter pack below:

go.bsky.app/zUV84F

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

New joiners today?
Historians of South Asia starter pack below:

go.bsky.app/zUV84F

YouTube video by NATARAJA dance group Ardhanarishwara by Nrityagram

They don’t dance together anymore but Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy were 👌 in this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...

What if Sri Lanka’s Muslim past is best read through monsoon-route pilgrims & merchants—not empires? What shifts when Arabic, Tamil, Malay, Ottoman, Urdu, Dhivehi, and Sinhala sources meet for the first time in "Serendipitous Translations"?👂🏽to Nile Green: newbooksnetwork.com/serendipitou...

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Submissions - Eligibility and rules of entry Eligibility and rules of entry for the Wolfson History Prize, the UK's most prestigious history-writing prize.

The 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize is open to submissions from publishers from 9 December 2025 – 19 January 2026.

The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK.

Find out more. ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/

Decolonisation, Unstable Sovereignties and Development: The Indian Sterling Balance Negotiations of 1947 Indo-British financial negotiations in 1947, a crucial year in the compressed timing of imperial retreat, impacted the shape of decolonisation and also the U.S.-led post-War global financial system...

Fresh and #OpenAccess, see 'Decolonisation, Unstable Sovereignties and Development: The Indian Sterling Balance Negotiations of 1947' by Atiya Hussain: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...

The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb

> RHS Workshop Grants
> Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social
> Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR

#Skystorians

Ooh haven’t heard of this one!

Thinking of experimenting with that, though I might need 12!

Would like to know what fonts academics are using. What is your favourite font?

Happy New Year and peace, love, and understanding to all.