We're especially looking for books that aim to shape the field, on under-represented places, peoples and sources. Early career scholars welcome.

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

27th Conference European Association for South Asian Archaeology & Art July 2026, at Universiteit Gent 🏛
For researchers working on the archaeology, art history, & material cultures of South Asia, a space for new research, discussion, collaboration. Register here: easaa2026.ugent.be/en/registrat...

bursaries for Phd/ early career researchers @drjenniferbates.bsky.social easaa2026.ugent.be/en/travel-bu...

2026 Conference in Ghent: easaa2026.ugent.be/en

Join the IOE History Ed SIG 4 this open seminar with Professor Marc-André Éthier, exploring Bringing History 2 Life: Teaching Fact & Fiction, Face-2-face & online - on the 19th March 5-6.30pm GMT. Further information & registration are @ this link: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/hie-sig/?p=1... #historyeducation

Lecture Massimo Vidale - at the Iravatham Mahadevan endowment Centre, Chennai @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @drjenniferbates.bsky.social

New insights on the Urban phase of the Indus Valley tradition | Prof. Massimo Vidale YouTube video by RMRL Chennai

Brilliant insights from a great archaeologist who (always) puts forward fascinating theories & new interpretations e.g. a smaller 'Great Bath' in Lower Town, Mohenjodaro; enlightening viewing for teaching or writing about the Indus Valley for KS2. 22 mins in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_6...

Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!

Behold the incredible shrinking Starmer: the PM who promises more while giving less | Aditya Chakrabortty It is not just this doomed government but the Labour party itself that is disappearing before our very eyes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

"It’s not a philosophy but a business model"

Aditya Chakrabortty remains damn good at this thing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Battle Of The Soul Of The Nation | Hannah Spencer | Zack Polanski YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

Our @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast is getting over a million plays a month!

Really moved by peoples reactions to this episode - check out the comments!

Hannah Spencer is the real deal - and she's going to make an amazing MP for Gorton & Denton.

youtu.be/uCy0VdHTVvs?...

Read an excerpt from The Declarations of Havana. "We are ready! Cuba will not fail. Cuba is here today to proclaim before Latin America and the world its historic and unchangeable resolution: Our country or death!"

"The Assembly reaffirms its will to march 'with the whole world and not just a part of it'."

In response to the Trump administration’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba, we've made the ebook for "The Declarations of Havana" free to download.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

Never Forget You

Another bargain at Postscript Books: Noor Inayat Khan's life in historical fiction by Jamila Gavin: @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social www.psbooks.co.uk/never-forget...

Sheri Khan Tarakai and Early Village Life in the Borderlands

Two Archaeology reports reduced price at Postscriptbooks #archaeology

www.psbooks.co.uk/sheri-khan-t...

Book cover of The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization by Jennifer Bates. Image shows a woman in a blue sari decorated with red flowers, with shell bangles on her arm. She stands in a harvested field looking away across to people carrying the harvest in the distance.

🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.

Temple carving near Sirpur, India.

Buddhist stupa near Sirpur, India.

Temple near Sirpur, India.

Dancing girl, Harappan bronze figurine, originally found in Pakistan, now in New Delhi National Museum.

Spending a while of my sabbatical travelling India 🇮🇳 maintaining connections, planning future work, and catching up on writing projects. And thoroughly enjoying seeing as many amazing things as possible! #archaeology #history #India

. #TOIBookmark #podcast. Dr Nayanjot Lahiri spoke about her research on the #IndusValley civilizations: the incredible #archaeological discovery of a century ago. It transformed the manner in which Indian history was viewed.

Listen for free:
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lost-c...

Bare mountains drop into a valley with a river and trees.

Why did the Harappan Civilization in the Indus Valley disappear? New CIRES research reconstructs ancient Indus River flow to understand a disappeared civilization. #indusvalley #harappan #paleoclimatology Read about the research at this link: buff.ly/FodCx6o

Mohenjo-daro: Forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilisation Rakhaldas Banerjee is credited with discovering Mohenjo-daro, but his legacy is tainted by controversy.

#MondayThoughts Staying on the subject #SouthAsia and #Pakistan #ancient #civilization remains #discovered only about 100 years ago #IndusValley #Indian #India #MohenjoDaro

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When Rivers Faded: Climate Whiplash and the Long Slow Transformation of the Harappan World New paleoclimate modeling suggests that centuries of shifting drought cycles reshaped one of humanity's earliest urban experiments.

New climate modeling shows the Harappan world shifted not through sudden collapse but centuries of recurring drought. A story of resilience, adaptation, and the limits of river civilizations. #Archaeology #Paleoclimate #IndusValley #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/when-river...

@1972shp.bsky.social's new webinar in our UNEARTHED series is a must for all teachers of the History of Medicine. Bring your students along to hear @teachmedwomen.bsky.social's Dr Natasha Hodgson discussing Medieval women, medicine & gardening ...

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

Graphic from FT showing the speed of decline in the author's "backsliding scale".

Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases.

www.ft.com/content/b474...

Between 2018-21 we awarded Duncan Wright of @newcastleuni.bsky.social 3 grants totalling less than 5k, to explore Laughton en le Morthen castle. This led to an AHRC grant to investigate the transition of power btwn Saxons & Normans. This is what they found: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/02...

Please join us and help make history at the Gorton and Denton by-election! 💚. We have a brilliant candidate, Hannah Spencer, we have momentum and we have a vital message - that the politics of hope *can* win over the politics of hate.
We can win this! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

By-election latest:

A Green Party source tells me the response in Gorton today has been so positive that they're reallocating resources to Denton.

They claim ex-Labour voters say they can't vote for the party with Starmer as leader, so tactical voting doesn't come into it.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

I have problems with seaweed in the propellor.

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liking the focus 😊