Douglas Peers
@dpeers.bsky.social
historian, has-dean, and senior staff officer to an alpha-beagle.
This is a fantastic book - in case my blurb wasn't clear... 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Hurst Publishers@hurstpublishers.bsky.social · last wk.‘Empire with a Vengeance’ by @mark-condos.bsky.social : ‘A genuinely pathbreaking work of comparative & trans-imperial history that should be compulsory reading for anyone seriously interested in historical questions of violence and empire.’ @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/5n93zbsa
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
sticky walk this morning along the Conestogo River but the birds were definitely enjoying the bugs more than us
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
Thousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
Forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
Nearly 10,000 soldiers' names are being added to the official database of war dead, a cherished step for many of their descendants.
bbc.co.uk
looking ahead, surely the next round will be easier - the english have never had a problem with viking invaders before hold on, I’m getting a note
So under the new rules does the call to FIFA come from Starmer, Burnham or the King
We have lost another giant in the field. A wonderful eulogy from Durba Ghosh to a scholar whose work will continue to inform, inspire, and at times irritate (though in the best possible way). RIP Tom
TheNACBS@thenacbs.bsky.social · last mo.Thomas R. Metcalf, distinguished scholar of the social, political, and cultural history of the British Empire and colonial South Asia, passed on June 18, 2026. You can read more about his scholarship and mentorship in this essay by Durba Ghosh. thewire.in/history/reme...
On the beauty of archives. Will our digital age’s records be so well preserved? Let’s hope so www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aurangzeb's akhbarat: The empire that ran on news reports - and what they reveal about Mughal India
Thousands of forgotten news reports are reshaping our understanding of Aurangzeb and the Mughal world.
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Been catching up on today’s news about Reform’s plans to introduce a ‘patriotic’ British history curriculum. Can I point you all to my BBC radio series, which explored just how problematic state-led national history textbooks can be? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Lies My Teacher Told Me - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Lies My Teacher Told Me on BBC Sounds.
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Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform's plans for a new school curriculum sounds like it is essentially designed to put a whole generation of students off learning history.
and to add insult to injury it was probably written with AI assistance
Matthew Hayday@mhayday.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere's something so repugnant and insulting when such a generic letter, filled with bland platitudes, is sent to an association of historians who know full well who is to blame for these cutbacks. Many of us specialize in the histories of government, politics, and the state, for goodness sakes!
I know there are lots of things to be concerned about these days but I'm reposting this for #envhist and #cdnhist. It's an ATIP story as much as it is a story about the loss of a service and the devaluing of knowledge - and the work that Parks Canada researchers did and do. 1/
Tina Loo@lootina.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
shrek is standing on top of a set of stairs with two knights .
Alt: Lord Farquaad Some of you may die but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make gif
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoa slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.bsky.social
I am thrilled that my book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral 1748–1858 has now won the 2026 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy prize (Association for Asian Studies/South Asia Council)! www.asianstudies.org/grants-award... Honoured to share it with the great Charu Gupta.
Coomaraswamy Prize - Association for Asian Studies
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize The Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize honors a distinguished work of scholarship in South Asian Studies that promises to define or redefine the understandin...
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Rarely have I been to such an event that captured so well the personality, contribution and scholarly context of the historian. You could build a volume on the historiography of the British Empire around its many thoughtful talks.
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 6mo agoThe Society was honoured to take part yesterday in a memorial event for Professor Peter Marshall (1933-2025), who served as RHS President, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4boYraf Thanks to all @kingshistory.bsky.social who made this memorial possible, and to those who spoke about Peter's life, work and legacy.
One of the many blue jays on the trails in the Hendrie Valley this morning - hoping it is good omen
In explaining why to be a truly separate country, Alberta must abolish Aboriginal rights, Bruce Pardy accidentally explains why Alberta can never become its own country. Indigenous rights precede Alberta's existence as a province. Real genius, that one.
www.reuters.com/world/us/nig...
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revokes his visa
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday the United States had revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year and he was told to re-apply if he wished to try again to visit the U.S.
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The East India Company spent most of the half-century prior to 1820 in various states of looming bankruptcy, vexatious scandal, and aggressive war. Famine and revolt erupted routinely on its watch. Is this a good thing?
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 9mo agoIf the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
