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1/9 A thread on our recent special issue (10.2), "New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones [1746-1794]", guested edited by Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau) & ian stewart (UCL) who underscore the import of this reassessment in their introduction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jessica Patterson Cambridge University 4/9 Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau) contributes with a piece on "William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge" which, among other things, briefly traces the willingness of Jones to adapt his scholarship to various political programmes across his career tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“Jonathan Parry is uniquely qualified to write the history of Liberalism in Britain... a pithy, original, and trenchant analysis.” Anthony Howe on 'Liberalism' by Jon Parry - the latest addition to the Short Histories series. agendapub.com/page/series-re… #politicalhistory

Researchers from King's College London and @UniOfEastAnglia have discovered that a “copy” of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact a vanishingly rare original from 1300. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-…

Alisdair MacIntyre was one of the most fruitfully provocative thinkers in the English-speaking world of the last century, especially in dismantling dominant models of social science. I am not aware of a more acid, more humorous opening to a philosophical essay. RIP.

Great new article by Robert Travers: "Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Exciting job: assistant prof in global history of knowledge Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

An incisive review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press) in American Historical Review academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

Prof Peter Mandler’s insatiable curiosity has fuelled an extraordinary career over more than 2 decades at Cambridge. As he steps back from formal teaching, the acclaimed historian reflects on a life of intellectual breadth, public advocacy—and no plans to slow down. Link below⬇️

Interesting panorama of Fort St. George c. 1750: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RCMS-0…. The Sea Gate was where most Madras auctions took place (of particular interest to me at the moment).

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For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse scroll.in/article/108389… via Scroll.in

Sage advice here for grad students (and institutions!)

Great opportunity, esp. for budding historians of and/or from Sri Lanka

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London) is now published Global Intellectual History tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…