So pleased to be collaborating with current and former colleagues Simon Spier for this wonderful CDP PhD with CDP Connect EdinburghArtHistory V&A - Applications are now open! eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ah…

Did Charlemagne kick-start the European glass industry? A fascinating study.

I'd really like to see something here about how equitable any model is for example, for the libraries being expected to pay for these non APC models. E.g., how equitable is it that past subscribers are expected to bear the burden for the value of OA by S2O?

Open access commentary for a great forum on race, criminality & space in Empire tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

c1800 CE painting from #Rajasthan now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of #HanumanJi performing His most famous heroic feat of carrying the Himalayan Mount Vindhya containing the Medicinal Herbs required for an injured Lord #Rama
#Rama yana

Note, He carries His army in His tail!

#HanumanJayanti

Still time to book for tomorrow.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌍🌏

Here's a nice picture from a project which digitised the historical botanical collections in the East African Herbarium Library at the National Museums of Kenya (EAP923)
eap.bl.uk/project/EAP923

Quelle surprise.

According to History Reclaimed, my book Stealing with the Eyes is nothing less than a 'post-modern assault on anthropology,' and 'a morbid and fantastic expression of liberal guilt.' Here's something I wrote in response.

Haus Publishing

willbuckingham.com/postmodernism-…

Fully funded, 4 yr PhD studentship (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships Scheme) ‘Disability’ & Stuart Seafarers, 1600-1750' (JOWITT_24HISAHRC) at University of East Anglia & National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Apply by 9/5/24
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA920/phd…
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Global Economic History is back! Join us in person or on zoom (sign up to be sent the link) Cambridge History

Discover the vibrant roots of Indian modern art at the Brunei Gallery SOAS and be captivated by the beauty and diversity of this unique art form!
PAINTING FREEDOM 🇮🇳
#ArtLovers #ModernArt #CultureExploration #IndianArt #ArtExhibition #ArtGallery #ArtHistory #ArtMuseum #ArtCulture

And it's done. I have written my book about Brighton's pleasure dome, the Royal Pavilion. Now I need a break from Xanadu for a short while, before the editing begins. Standing on the shoulders of giants, obviously.
Brighton Museums #nolongerwriting

Looking to publish your first #history book?

At 2pm on Friday 14 June Royal Historical Society brings together publishers, series editors & historians to discuss the steps from PhD thesis to monograph bit.ly/4cQD9k1

Join us online as we answer your questions #twitterstorians

Delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded AHRC CDP PhD studentship with me Edinburgh College of Art with V&A on The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ah…

Glasgow University to return extinct 170-year-old lizard specimen to Jamaica - Daily Record dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

If you'd like to help advocate for historians and for the value of #history , and connect with fellow historians of all kinds, please do consider joining Royal Historical Society bit.ly/45lOzr0 #twitterstorians

Join our learning team at the #MandHShow on May 15!

Find out more about our story-led approach and how it engages learners and empowers them to explore their personal connections to migration. Museums + Heritage Show & Awards

©Elzbieta Piekacz

Greenfield Valley Heritage Park near Holywell in north-east Wales is hosting an exhibition on local travel writer and zoologist Thomas Pennant, re the area’s natural, social, and industrial history at the end of the eighteenth century
uwtsd.ac.uk/news/exhibitio…

Must-listen (we have quite a Nur Jahan fan club Manchester Museum) .. Nur Jahan - the only Mughal woman to have coins issued in her name. Her story and these beautiful coins greet you as you enter the South Asia Gallery Nusrat