Diya Gupta
@diyagupta.bsky.social
Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
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This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
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Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.
The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.
The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
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The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.
The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
August 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.
The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.
The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.
The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Job researching plants and enslavement
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Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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June 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Job researching plants and enslavement
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✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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June 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK
Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
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'In response to these trends, Behrens argued that a shift toward more plant-based diets is not simply advisable, but likely inevitable. This view is grounded not in consumer preference, but in biophysical constraints and economic modeling.'
The Way We Eat Is About To Change — Whether We Like It Or Not
Oxford’s Paul Behrens says global diets will shift toward plant-based foods as a structural response to rising environmental and economic risks.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
'In response to these trends, Behrens argued that a shift toward more plant-based diets is not simply advisable, but likely inevitable. This view is grounded not in consumer preference, but in biophysical constraints and economic modeling.'
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Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on this day in 1968.
R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
April 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on this day in 1968.
R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
I'm rather thrilled with this review of my book in the journal American Historical Review! @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #india #WW2 #emotionalhistory
March 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm rather thrilled with this review of my book in the journal American Historical Review! @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #india #WW2 #emotionalhistory
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Thanks to all that attended our event on telling difficult histories with award-winning BBC podcasters Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane and our brilliant colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social!
Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
March 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Thanks to all that attended our event on telling difficult histories with award-winning BBC podcasters Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane and our brilliant colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social!
Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social
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March 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
EU Ambassador Lecture: The Balancing Power of the EU | City, University of London
The School of Policy and Global Affairs are delighted to host His Excellency Pedro Serrano to give a lecture on the EU-UK relations in a troubled world, with a reception to follow.
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February 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Our wonderful colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social will interview journalists Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane about the making of their acclaimed @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast on the famine. It will be an important event for all historians of India, British colonialism, and humanitarianism.
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Our wonderful colleague @diyagupta.bsky.social will interview journalists Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane about the making of their acclaimed @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast on the famine. It will be an important event for all historians of India, British colonialism, and humanitarianism.
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City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
I am loving teaching Ambedkar and Gandhi to my second-year undergraduate students for my South Asia module. You can tell from their faces that both Gandhi and Ambedkar's philosophical positions resonate with them, and with the inequalities they witness everyday. @cityhistory.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I am loving teaching Ambedkar and Gandhi to my second-year undergraduate students for my South Asia module. You can tell from their faces that both Gandhi and Ambedkar's philosophical positions resonate with them, and with the inequalities they witness everyday. @cityhistory.bsky.social
I am delighted to have this blog post on #1943BengalFamine and #emotions published by History Matters, Sheffield University's research blog. It feels like a promising start! Please do read and let me know your thoughts. historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive... @cityhistory.bsky.social
History Matters - The 1943 Bengal Famine: Emotional Landscapes of Hunger
Diya Gupta| 10 January 2025
◇ British History | Colonial History | South Asian History
historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
January 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I am delighted to have this blog post on #1943BengalFamine and #emotions published by History Matters, Sheffield University's research blog. It feels like a promising start! Please do read and let me know your thoughts. historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive... @cityhistory.bsky.social
Today, I spoke about #india #SecondWorldWar #emotionalhistory at City & Islington sixth form college. The students were wonderful! I'm still thinking about their questions. My resolution: keep talking about my work to young people. @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Today, I spoke about #india #SecondWorldWar #emotionalhistory at City & Islington sixth form college. The students were wonderful! I'm still thinking about their questions. My resolution: keep talking about my work to young people. @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Really delighted to have taken part in #ImperialWarMuseum's
latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social
latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social
Conflict of Interest: Susan Wokoma explores The Home Front
How did British society react to the sudden increase of women in the workforce during the First World War? Or the thousands of colonial volunteers brought over to fight Nazism? Susan Wokoma (Che...
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January 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Really delighted to have taken part in #ImperialWarMuseum's
latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social
latest podcast 'Conflict of Interest' on art and photography, with Susan Wokoma. Listen here: podfollow.com/1566841158/e... @cityhistory.bsky.social
A new and exciting funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starts in October 2025. “War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47”
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Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!
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Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!
CDA War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47 | SWWDTP Studentship
The AHRC funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance
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December 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A new and exciting funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starts in October 2025. “War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47”
www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!
www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Deadline: 20 January 2025. International applicants welcome! Please circulate far and wide!
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If you'd like to join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social - as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or PGR Member - we welcome applications at any time bit.ly/45lOzr0
Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.
Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.
December 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM
If you'd like to join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social - as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or PGR Member - we welcome applications at any time bit.ly/45lOzr0
Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.
Membership is for #History professionals in Higher Education - worldwide, at all career stages - and in related sectors. Next deadline: 13 Dec.
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Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...
Women Speak Volumes Between Generations – APPLY
Call for participants Young Black women aged 18-30 invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators Booker Prize winning author and literary activist Professor B…
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December 4, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...
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Today, Prospect announced our 2025 World’s Top #Thinkers shortlist.
Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵
For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵
For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
December 4, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Today, Prospect announced our 2025 World’s Top #Thinkers shortlist.
Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵
For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
Here are the five nominees in our #climate category. 🧵
For the thinkers in our other categories—economics, freedom, geopolitics and technology—and to vote for your favourite, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
Very happy to have my review of Vivienne Guo's excellent book 'Women and Politics in Wartime China' published! Here's to foregrounding marginalised histories of #WW2
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Book Review: Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders by Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Reviewed by Dr Diya Gupta, Lecturer in Public History, City St George’s, University of LondonAbingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138080645, £119.48 hardback“I do not know what is leftist and what is rightist. I have always believed in peace, independence, democracy and freedom for my country, no matter whether it means that I am a leftist or rightist.” (p. 194) These words were spoken in 1947 by the Chinese female politician Tan Tiwu, who served as both a Kuomintang (KMT) legislator
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December 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Very happy to have my review of Vivienne Guo's excellent book 'Women and Politics in Wartime China' published! Here's to foregrounding marginalised histories of #WW2
@cityhistory.bsky.social
@swwstudiesedin.bsky.social
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At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating.
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating.
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
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I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added
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November 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added
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go.bsky.app/zUV84F
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