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Diya Gupta
@diyagupta.bsky.social
Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (Hurst and OUP, 2023; Rupa, 2025) #happyeveryday
The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532. The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69. The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestine Action protest arrests rise to more than 500
Police say the majority of arrests were for displaying placards in support of the banned group.
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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · last yr.The woman being manhandled by 4 rozzers in this photo is La Pethick, an 89-year old retired psychotherapist, one of 466 anti genocide protestors lifted yesterday in UK Labour's crackdown on protest against it's complicity in Gaza. 466 is the highest number of arrests at a protest in the modern era.
Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...
Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses. At least five were later murdered by the Taliban. The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK
Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
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'In response to these trends, Behrens argued that a shift toward more plant-based diets is not simply advisable, but likely inevitable. This view is grounded not in consumer preference, but in biophysical constraints and economic modeling.'
The Way We Eat Is About To Change — Whether We Like It Or Not
Oxford’s Paul Behrens says global diets will shift toward plant-based foods as a structural response to rising environmental and economic risks.
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Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on this day in 1968. R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
I'm rather thrilled with this review of my book in the journal American Historical Review! @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #india #WW2 #emotionalhistory
Thanks to all that attended our event on telling difficult histories with award-winning BBC podcasters Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane and our brilliant colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social! Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
Diya Gupta@diyagupta.bsky.social · 2y agoHow do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social "The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
EU Ambassador Lecture: The Balancing Power of the EU | City, University of London
The School of Policy and Global Affairs are delighted to host His Excellency Pedro Serrano to give a lecture on the EU-UK relations in a troubled world, with a reception to follow.
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Our wonderful colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social will interview journalists Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane about the making of their acclaimed @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast on the famine. It will be an important event for all historians of India, British colonialism, and humanitarianism.
City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣 First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
I am loving teaching Ambedkar and Gandhi to my second-year undergraduate students for my South Asia module. You can tell from their faces that both Gandhi and Ambedkar's philosophical positions resonate with them, and with the inequalities they witness everyday. @cityhistory.bsky.social
I am delighted to have this blog post on #1943BengalFamine and #emotions published by History Matters, Sheffield University's research blog. It feels like a promising start! Please do read and let me know your thoughts. historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive... @cityhistory.bsky.social
History Matters - The 1943 Bengal Famine: Emotional Landscapes of Hunger
Diya Gupta| 10 January 2025 ◇ British History | Colonial History | South Asian History
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Today, I spoke about #india #SecondWorldWar #emotionalhistory at City & Islington sixth form college. The students were wonderful! I'm still thinking about their questions. My resolution: keep talking about my work to young people. @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Really delighted to have taken part in #ImperialWarMuseum's latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social
Conflict of Interest: Susan Wokoma explores The Home Front
How did British society react to the sudden increase of women in the workforce during the First World War? Or the thousands of colonial volunteers brought over to fight Nazism? Susan Wokoma (Che...
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A new and exciting funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starts in October 2025. “War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47” www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ... Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!
CDA War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47 | SWWDTP Studentship
The AHRC funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance
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If you'd like to join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social - as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or PGR Member - we welcome applications at any time bit.ly/45lOzr0 Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.
Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...
Women Speak Volumes Between Generations – APPLY
Call for participants Young Black women aged 18-30 invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators Booker Prize winning author and literary activist Professor B…
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Today, Prospect announced our 2025 World’s Top #Thinkers shortlist. Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵 For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
Very happy to have my review of Vivienne Guo's excellent book 'Women and Politics in Wartime China' published! Here's to foregrounding marginalised histories of #WW2 @cityhistory.bsky.social @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social www.swwresearch.com/post/book-re...
Book Review: Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders by Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Reviewed by Dr Diya Gupta, Lecturer in Public History, City St George’s, University of LondonAbingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138080645, £119.48 hardback“I do not know what is leftist and what is rightist. I have always believed in peace, independence, democracy and freedom for my country, no matter whether it means that I am a leftist or rightist.” (p. 194) These words were spoken in 1947 by the Chinese female politician Tan Tiwu, who served as both a Kuomintang (KMT) legislator
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At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating. From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)! (Part 1) 🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/zUV84F
I am so pleased to be interviewed in this documentary where journalist Mobeen Khan traces the journey of his grandfather Nawab Din's experiences in the Indian Army in #WW2. Do watch!
Fellow RHS Fellows! A quick reminder that I am running for Council amongst some other excellent colleagues. If you haven't voted yet, don't forget or check your junk mail!
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 2y agoFellows of the Royal Historical Society! You should get an email today, and may already have one, about elections to the RHS Council elections. I am one of the nominated candidates. Please consider voting for me and for representation for the broad sweep of historical teaching.
I recently received the news that my book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2024 Gladstone Prize! My father would be very happy. There would be no research, and no book, without him. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
