Christopher Roberts

This was an exceptional episode

I am delighted to share that my book Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom is published today. @IndianHistory_C @historycong @AAPIData. It explores the transnational history of Asianism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its role in shaping Indian anticolonialism against British rule. #AsianHistory #NewBook #PanAsianism #IndianHistory #GlobalSouth #postcolonial #GlobalHistory

Finally reading Christy Thornton's (@llchristyll) Revolution in Development, and it is fantastic

The science on wealth taxes is settled. People opposing it are either protecting their own wealth or letting ideology override evidence. Here is what the research actually says. 🧵👇

The Call for Papers for the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference, on 6-7 August 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia, is now open! Applications are due by 1 April 2026. Please find the call here: mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/

Mario just goes around changing the flags at Bowser's castles without solving any of the underlying problems that led to Bowser taking control in the first place. That's why he's been at this shit for 35 years with no results

In just under one week's time!

Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book! law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cct…

Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online! law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cct…

⁦@YinQingfei⁩ ‘s talk at ShanghaiTech University! Dr Yin is an associate professor of history at the London School of Economics.

New ep of @thedigradio is sharing an incredible story from @signalhillfm: Robin D.G. Kelley listening back to old tapes of interviews w sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression thedigradio.com/podcast/pie-do…

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025 law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cal…

For the past month, I’ve been working on a project to map out and document the work of one of the most prolific storefront sign painters in the US - this is Detroit’s Ron Signs

Fantastic and very important paper & episode

From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed 2007)

Thousands of workers tried a 4-day week, and their mental and physical health improved. A study tracked 2,896 workers across 141 organizations for six months. Reducing the work week by 8 hours led to better physical and mental health, with no loss of productivity.

“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" - Alex de Waal, director of the @WorldPeaceFdtn and an expert on famine, told Al Jazeera on Monday. He described the starvation in Gaza as “entirely manmade and preventable”

Call for Papers: Evidence Matters Organized by the amazing folks at DISSECT and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, in honor of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Deadline 30 September 2025 dissect.ugent.be/events/interna…