Osama Siddiqui

@NaTurkNaHindu Congrats! This sounds fascinating. Look forward to reading more of your work!

@MatthewSitman We should get you to visit Providence College at some point!

Listening to The Hillbilly Thomists this afternoon, I had the thought that Catholics of many varieties probably are into their music, and what if we all got together to drink some bourbon and listen to bluegrass and hang out and not try to "solve" anything or engage in "dialogue"

Many of you have been an integral part of conversations and ideas that’s have gone into the making of my first book Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean. Thank you ! The book is now available open access and in hard copy (code UCPSAVE30). ucpress.edu/flyer/books/mo…

@drumm_colin Whoa that’s incredible 🤯

fun fact of the day is that the first instance of the word "unconscoius" is english is in a poem written by thomas hobbes about a mountain in wiltshire

@yakabikaj Congrats!! 🎉

@prof_alopez Yay, congrats!!

Ahh! "Reel Freedom" is out so soon, but you can pre-order it (if that's your thing) AND get 25% off (PO25S). tupress.temple.edu/books/reel-fre…

Was pleasantly surprised to find Guru Dutt's passport in the British Museum, at the pinnacle of the South Asia collection in the post-independence section. Issued in 1950, he would have been no more than 25 here, with bright eyes gazing ahead to an incredible decade…laajawab ho!

Fascinating article on Hobbes' involvement in the Bermuda company, and how that influenced his political thought. Hobbes, Cavendish, and the Bermuda Company | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3NfBPf3

@_John_Handel in his defense, i think it’s a debate where the historiographical stakes seem big and clear, so not a bad way to introduce historical arguments and writing! But yeah maybe a lot for first-years lol

@orsidd I love Rishad, but a few years into college teaching I'm realizing how wild it was that we had to read all of that lol

Excited to talk about Sudev Sheth’s terrific book on merchants and the Mughals this afternoon. Providence area folks, join us!

@_John_Handel lol that totally sounds like something Rishad would do! And yeah this book intervenes in that debate in a really compelling way with a lot of new evidence. Def recommend!

@orsidd So many flashbacks to Rishad forcing our freshman writing class to read all of the Karen Leonard and JF Richards debate about financing the Mughal Empire lol. Now I am excited to read this book!

@_John_Handel Either that or Paul Langford’s “A Polite and Commercial People”

John Brewer's "Sinews of Power" is the most foundational academic book in Modern British History

@danielasamur Congrats Daniela!!

The NACBS Executive Committee has issued the following statement of support for staff and faculty at @GoldsmithsUoL facing program closures and redundancies: @BlackBritHistMA @hannahelias @GoldsmithsUCU @AbenaKJohn @RoyalHistSoc nacbs.org/news/statement…

@carolradq Truly, such great suggestions! I come back to it often.

@orsidd Returned to this list...such treasures here.

Does anyone have recommendations for novels that could work well in a seminar on global history? (Sea of Poppies is a possibility, but I feel it’s a bit too long)

@PCHistoryDept @acweimer Congrats Adrian! 🎉

Dr. @acweimer has won the Colonial Society of Massachusetts' 2024 John Winthrop Prize for her most recent book, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire."

@blgtylr I love this book! press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

@dillivali @dulQuer omg!! 😮

@JoshSavala Congratulations Josh!! That is fantastic news!

I've been sitting on this news for a while: happy to be joining the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso this fall!