Deborah Sutton 😊

Dinner is being dined at the end of a brilliant second day at the @BASASofficial Conference 2025 ♥️🥂

Whoohoo!! We are tote-ally ready for the start of the @BASASofficial Conference on Wednesday!! wp.lancs.ac.uk/basas2025/

"Digitizing Heritage: Exploring the Transformation of Culture to Data" by Krupa Rajangam (Saythu...linking people and heritage) & @DebsSutton (Lancaster University) casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/krupa-raja…

@SusVinita It was a fantastic event; brilliant papers, lively discussion and reflection on the state of environmental history 30 years after Green Imperialism. Nothing will separate me from the copy I bought as a PhD student. 🥰

A heartwarming and wonderful gathering of researchers celebrating Richard Grove's Green Imperialism

We’re back after a short break! Help us grow the #CitiesInFiction archive. If you’ve recently read a book set in South Asia, let us know — we’d love to include it on the site. More info here citiesinfiction.com

You flush and forget. But someone else deals with the shit. scroll.in/article/914512… A graphics-led investigation uncovers how India’s sanitation system still relies on caste-bound labour—and what happens to waste when the system fails. By Anirudh A Ashar & Aarefa Johari

Environmentalism, historian and columnist @Ram_Guha has written, is thought to be a “full-stomach phenomenon” – it’s believed to be a Western concern because people in countries like India are simply too poor to be green. Watch ⤵️ youtu.be/NGpbAwjqBfM?si… #WorldEnvironmentDay

Pleased to announce a conference in honour of Richard Grove

Join us for an exciting Climates of Empire 2025 conference. Registration open. For more details click sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsandev… @SussexUni @SusVinita

A job! A one year, 0.8FTE job, but a job in Modern History. 🔥🔥hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Replug | Climate change is making salt harder to produce. scroll.in/article/106322… In Gujarat—India’s top salt-producing state—unpredictable, shifting monsoons are threatening the centuries-old livelihoods of salt workers. Vaishnavi Rathore reports

And, just like that, registration opened for @BASASofficial conference 10 - 12 September 2025: wp.lancs.ac.uk/basas2025/

Dr Benjamin Dalton is a lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Ben's research explores how contemporary French philosophy and cultural production engage with biomedical science (2/5)

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat. Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Dear Readers of The Wire In a clear violation of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, the Government of India has blocked access to thewire.in across India. +

‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre scroll.in/latest/1082179…

Great postdoc opportunity on a fantastic project I'm involved with in an advisory capacity: "Genealogies of 'humanity' in Islamic charity", based at Leiden University. Kindly circulate! universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

*@nomhossain will deliver the BASAS Annual Lecture 2025 on 9 May* Full details available on our website: basas.org.uk/news-events/ba…

A tremendous resource developed by University of Leeds School of History's excellent Research Officer, Dr. Joanna Phillips. Highlights the rich research done within the School, which then feeds into cutting edge, research-led teaching. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/450/w…

@KapadiaAparna @CullmanNYPL @nypl @Ram_Guha @tajmahalfoxtrot Congratulations!!! 🥳🥳👏

Delighted to share that I have been selected to be the Andrew Melon Foundation Fellow @CullmanNYPL in support of my biography of Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944). Can’t wait to join this incredible group of scholars and writers and work @nypl this fall! @Ram_Guha @tajmahalfoxtrot