Rohan Deb Roy

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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 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/...

📣 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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!

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...

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!)

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 ... 👏👏👏

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today we have a revolution that took centuries to happen if it ever really happened at all: The Scientific Revolution. David talks to historian of science Simon Schaffer about what changed in human understanding in the age of Galileo & Newton. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Congratulations to #Extinction Studies PhD student (now Dr) Jonathan Roberts on successfully defending his thesis yesterday on "Biological and Social aspects of human #hookworm #infection and eradication". Many thanks to @rohandroy.bsky.social for being a thorough and constructive external.

Hello friends and new followers, 'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal. @historywo.bsky.social It proposes a conversation between environmetal history, history of science, and decolonizing methods. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

We are please to announce that the new issue of History Workshop Journal 98 is now live! This issue features articles along the theme of 'Unbordered Histories', with many articles available open access. academic.oup.com/hwj...

Robert Clive confronted by ghosts of the Bengal Famine. Cartoon titled "The India Directors in the Suds", 1772. "Suds" was slang for sewage. I used it as the cover image of my book, "The Art of a Corporation: The East India Co as Patron & Collector" (2023). www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book...

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now #histstm #histsci #STS

Looking forward to this event in Kolkata!

Fantastic to see the hard copy of @isisjournal.bsky.social! The Magnifying Insect Histories Focus reflects on the methodological purchase of thinking about 🪲🐝🐛🦂🦟🐜🦋 for doing history of science. Thank U authors + @dominikhhh.bsky.social & Dear editors: your visions enabled us to reach new heights 🙏

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...

Letters, food and ephemera - material objects have acted as radical agents in history. In this thread, explore some radical objects: How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum. www.historyworkshop....