Kieran Hazzard

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

Yes. There was that awkward time when one of them lost his head.

It's clear that America has completed the transition to oligarchy to join both Russia and China. It's also increasingly authoritarian. The world is now dominated by 3 oligarchies competing through different means to enrich themselves and dominate everyone else. These are the times we now live in.

The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push

President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

"Radicalism is not on Starmer’s agenda. It never was. He and his little men play politics as a game where the instructions are handed down from others and the stakes are miserably low."

Fun fact: the assassination itself was like that! “That’s sad, that family has no luck” was the initial press response.

The Surprising Origins of the BBC’s ‘Left-Wing Bias’ David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of institutional bias at the BBC.

Today’s campaigns against the BBC, from Donald Trump to The Daily Telegraph, have a surprisingly long history.

In our latest article, David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of left-wing bias at the BBC.

Labour's conformism is crushing Britain Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite

With Karel Williams of Foundational Economy a call for a new way of doing things, starting with water ... www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Has Britain become an economic colony? The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that may cost it dear

Yes.

Over at the Oxford Union tonight: was the British Empire good or bad? If only there was an entire field of scholarship which could address this question! (Or tell you it's a silly question).

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

Awesome discovery, and in county record offices!

British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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Me, every time Google suggests an AI summary.

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I take your point. And probably necessary in a passing reference. But refuse to be mollified! 😄

I think it remains important and useful to differentiate between means of colonial accumulation. In the EIC case the complexity and rapid changes at times can tell us a lot.

Interesting... And I didn't previously know the origin of the name, so thanks for that!

I suppose if you clime to the top of the rocks you could claim to have conquered Clive. Maybe that's the answer to all this.

a man in a tie is talking to a woman . ALT: a man in a tie is talking to a woman .

Even if this was more accessible, I doubt it would make any difference. So MUCH academic writing, often entire sub-fields of decades of scholarship, is so easily ignored or waved away.

But the need for a single hero/villain for both sides of this debate continues to completely erase all this and only talk about statues. Impossible for mature reflection because of this.

I make a small attempt in my contribution here to the linked collection. Might be easier to get physically tbh.

Depressing how much public history is just vibes. I bet she's never been there, and this belief is based on a few throw away lines in the introduction to Dalrymple's Anarchy.

The next generation of Clives contributed far more clear cut loot to the collection and made a museum in Powis to show off.

Labour peer calls for removal of Clive of India statue from outside Foreign Office Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past ‘historically inaccurate’ bronze

"His former home, Powis Castle in Wales, contains hundreds if not thousands of objects that he took."

Not defending Clive, obviously. BUT he never lived at Powis and his collection of countably hundreds of objects contains a small amount of loot. Most was purchased or received as a (complex) gift.

One of those articles where you read it and keep saying 'yes, exactly!"

Second journalist in the last week to assert that the empire meant nothing to the average Brit! That it was just an elite game.

Which is really WEIRD. Because historians have spent the last 30+ years proving the exact opposite!

Was trying to post him looking pleased, but the gif failed.

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) - RHS We are deeply saddened to learn of the death, on Saturday, of Professor Peter Marshall, former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London and President of the Royal Historical Socie...

We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K

Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians

Interesting to note how hard everyone is trying to avoid using the name 'Clive' though.

I professionally hate this.

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

I was researching institutional colonial legacies in 2020 when many roles like this were created in the US & UK in response to the George Floyd protests. I worried at the time if there would be lasting a commitment to such research. Seems not.