I don't think that's right...

A camel shaped teapot with a person at the right hand side

Good morning and happy National Tea Day! 🫖

Has anyone got a more obscure teapot than us? #NationalTeaDay #TimeForTea

Saw a street vendor selling 'The Art of War' to drivers stuck in traffic in Kampala and it is faintly amazing that a book written by a Chinese general 2,500 years ago is still in demand.

True

I missed those... which ones are we talking about? 😅
I mean sure, looking back now, one can develop nostalgia for the job market in 2022/23...

See you on Monday!

Yesterday I had the honour to give the inaugural lecture of a new public lecture series hosted by my university, Wenzhou-Kean University, called Liberal Arts by the Lake, named for the lake in the centre of our campus.

And finally we have the afterword by Toyin Falola. It's been a great honour to have him being a part of this project
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Article 8: Adrian Young writes about the beginnings of Pacific History
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On this thread you can see all the articles of the special issue.
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The last article of our special issue has now made it to First View. Check out Adrian Young's "Beachcomber at the Ends of Empire: H. E. Maude, Colonial Futurity, and the Origins of Professional Pacific History"
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And now the website seems to be down...

Looks like the FRUS online documents are down... please tell me this is temporary!

🎉 It is always exciting to get another review.

That reminds me of the elephant figure protecting the back of the Basel Münster.

an elephant

another elephant

One more

and another one

Just beautiful elephants of the past, printed by (European) humans who likely have rarely seen an elephant before or were just bad printers.

A short 🧵

With chapter 3 having only 15 pages... let's say, the footnotes going to four digits is maybe not the biggest problem of the structural choices of this book 😅

For aesthetic reasons I prefer it when each chapter re-starts footnotes at 1... that way (depending on the length of the chapters obviously) you can avoid 3-4 digit footnotes...

Historian?

No, you're being rebranded.

You're now a 'Retrospective Content Creator'.

Many thanks @mihatsch.bsky.social for your fantastic lecture yesterday @humanitiesuu.bsky.social on your book @shiftingsovs.bsky.social! It was fascinating, thought-provoking and timely!

Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.

Escape the dreary Utrecht weather, and join us for a "cozy" discussion of sovereignty this evening.

This year the beginning of Ramadan coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year. And so, I want to wish you at the same time, a Happy Ramadan and a wonderful Year of the Horse.

Yet you still won’t be able to comment on footnotes

🇳🇱🗣️💬 Come and discuss sovereignty with me in Utrecht on 19 February 2026 at 17:15 (details in the link).

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🇳🇴 Join us tomorrow!

Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal - William Carruthers, 2026 This article examines archaeological assistance provided to Nepal by the Archaeological Survey of India as part of India’s aid efforts there in the 1960s. It de...

I have a new article out (open access!) about what the Archaeological Survey of India was doing in Nepal in the 1960s, with thoughts about the global complexity of post-war archaeological knowledge and the categories we use to understand it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Article 7: Andrew Ivaska on the history department of the university of Dar al Salam
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