#histSTM #histsci and adjacent #bookprize Please share widely!

BSHS@bshsnews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

I knew I disliked Hegel …

Daniel James@schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

South Asia at Reading this semester Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present

Aerial archaeology began not in neutral curiosity but in the violence of colonial Syria. Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.

The Bomber's View of the Past

Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

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The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2025 goes to Professor Sadiah Qureshi for the distinguished and internationally-recognised specialism in subjects related to science, race and empire. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/wilkins-bernal-medawar/

Surprised and delighted to receive the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize from @apha.org for lifetime achievement in public health history. Hoping to be at the APHA meeting in DC in early November to collect it. #publichealth #sts #histstm #histmed #histsci

At the David Attenborough Studio (Natural History Museum, London) for a 'Climate action night' rountable on 'Insects, collections, colonialism'

New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Honoured and delighted to hear that my book has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. The two winners will be announced in July: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

Alan Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison - @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Fragility: A History of Plaster

Fragility: A History of Plaster, This new book takes a fresh look at the role of materials in shaping history. Corbin focuses on the neglected role that plaster played in the first half of the 19th c...

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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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Book review of Kathryn Renton's Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World, and its examination of "Spain’s imperial expansion through the unique lens of horse and human relations" muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...

I now have a contract for my forthcoming book!!! Title, for now, ‘Mortality and Measurement: Race, Statistics, and Nineteenth-Century Empire’ (Cambridge, 2026).

In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth centu...

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I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer. #nonfictionreads

@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed

It's here.

I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

These figures are utterly grotesque. Under a Labour government too. (I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real). www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

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Higher ed institutions are “…natural antidotes against the consolidation of what the founding fathers referred to as “artificial aristocracies founded on wealth and birth.” Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s nothing elitist about college or university. We should reject that idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti

Higher education institutions continue to function as powerful engines of social mobility. They need more, not less, support

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We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

The Holberg Prize committee making a statement - a good choice too. Especially in relation to what's happening in the US and at Columbia... #STS #histstm #postcol

Literary Theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate

It was announced today that the 2025 Holberg Prize is awarded to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Daniela Alaattinoğlu will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest…

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Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!

Hurst Publishers@hurstpublishers.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy publication day @maryfissell.bsky.social! 🥳⭐ Abortion: A History is out today! 🌱 ‘Fascinating...Fissell specialises in digging out individual stories from behind the headlines and the grandstanding.’ — @telegraphnews.bsky.social, 5⭐ review 25% off with code FISSELL25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yybsa2wp

I took part in a podcast hosted by the Somerset House, London on the 'Salt hedge of India' that the British govenrment set up in the 19th century. This podcast accompanies an installation that is now on display at the Somerset House on the 'Salt hedge'. channel.somersethouse.org.uk/podcasts/pro...

Slowly taking shape into a book. Over the moon with the 🐧 colour scheme which just happens to be 🐯 themed too for proofs. More info here, including links to preorder. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254... In two weeks, there will be fewer than 100 days to go. Launch event TBC, but more ASAP.

Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both! (And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)

Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations @mooregraham.bsky.social on a successful viva yesterday! @rohandroy.bsky.social & I very much enjoyed discussing your #pirate thesis. & congrats to supervisors Richard Blakemore & TNA ... well done Dr Moore ... 👏👏👏

Congratulations @mooregraham.bsky.social on a successful viva yesterday! @rohandroy.bsky.social & I very much enjoyed discussing your #pirate thesis. & congrats to supervisors Richard Blakemore & TNA ... well done Dr Moore ... 👏👏👏