
History at City
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✨ Modern History cluster based at City - University of London ✨ account run by @margottudor & @gupta_diya ✨
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https://researchcentres.city.ac.uk/modern-history 14-11-2017 16:55:35
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Congratulations to our amazing colleague Diya Gupta 🎉🎉🎉

Divisive foreign policy issues may sway voters come November. Discussing the war in the Middle East impacting the election season, Andrew Payne said: 🗨️"There’s enough there to cause the White House to be worried." 🔗Read on: theatlantic.com/international/… 🖊️Daniel Block (The Atlantic)

always a joy to spend time with famous author Diya Gupta - joined by some amazing History at City students for an emotional introduction to some of Tim Hetherington’s work. lots to think about & great to learn that the Imperial War Museums has his archive of photographs freely available online


Delighted to share “Making Sense of Global (Dis)Order: History and International Affairs” at City Int Politics History at City on May 30. Looking forward to talks on the value of history in international affairs! With Chatham House Open to all-Registration👇🏻city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Applications are still open for a fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council CDP Connect PhD studentship with History at City and Imperial War Museums co-supervised by Diya Gupta and Peter Johnston. Applications are open until 22 May. For details see here acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Last days to apply for this CDP studentship supervised by Diya Gupta and myself, and run by History at City and Imperial War Museums on visualising India's wars in SE Asia. A dream opportunity to work on unique collections and transform our understanding. Details here: iwm.org.uk/sites/default/…

✨ New article, 'Reckoning with Responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British Military Failings during a Moment of Imperial Transformation, 1916–19' just published with Modern British History. From my time as Postdoc Fellow on Warnings from the Archive University of Exeter -academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-a…



✨v excited and surprised to find out that my book - Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 (Cambridge University Press - History) - has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society 2024 Gladstone Book Prize✨


Simon Harries Diya Gupta Royal Historical Society Hurst Publishers History at City City Int Politics Amazon is offering the book at 30% discount.

Dr Margot Tudor History at City Diya Gupta Fantastic to see two brilliant scholars getting the recognition they deserve!

And I find letters mentioning famine that were censored by colonial authorities now on display in a public library in the East End, at an exhibition organised by Diya Gupta and Sona Datta as they interpret the famine 80 years on. #ThreeMillion /4


Great news that our wonderful colleague Andrew Payne won the Neustadt book prize for his book ‘War on the Ballot’ - a must-read for all US historians and foreign policy experts 🎉🎉🎉


One of my regrets from back when my book came out was not taking the opportunity to go on the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) podcast - so I was delighted when Matt Dawson invited me on for a hugely enjoyable discussion of my (not quite so new) book. Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/1mHjtk…


the algorithm odds were in my favour & i have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme small grant for my 2nd book on post-Suez peacekeeping identities, military masculinities & field-based lives/interactions🇺🇳 can't wait to be back in the US to visit pals, UN archives, and SHAFR Conference

Enroute to Cambridge tonight for the first workshop of our The British Academy funded project ‘Getting it Wrong: The limits to prediction’ with Maria Christou Or Rosenboim and Ruth Morgan - and doesn’t the programme look amazing??


Our colleagues George Giannakopoulos and Alexandria Innes have organised a fascinating conference on “Partitioning for Peace: Cyprus and the Violence of Bordering 50 Years On” to be held at City on 7-8th November. See more info here: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…