Sebastian James Rose
@sebjrose.bsky.social
Postdoc historian at Loughborough University researching the history of technology, empire and infrastructure in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf. Working on @colonialcomms
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The Telegraph from Below: Race, Labour and the Indo-European Telegraph Department 1862–1927
In describing the landing of the Indo-European telegraph cable at Faw in 1862, the future British Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD)
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🚨 My first journal article on telegraph workers, labour, race, and agency in the Indo-European Telegraph Department is out now in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. Check it out!
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Come and join our workshop on colonialism and infrastructure from the 25th to 26th september online or in person if you are in London. Sign up www.eventbrite.com/e/colonialis...
September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Come and join our workshop on colonialism and infrastructure from the 25th to 26th september online or in person if you are in London. Sign up www.eventbrite.com/e/colonialis...
🚨In print now, new co-authored publication with some great scholars! This article grew out of a manifesto developed by participants in of the June 2023 summer school Socio-Economic Diplomatic History organised by Leiden University’s Institute for History, the Global Diplomacy Network
Written by Tessa de Boer, @elineceulemans.bsky.social, @emmaforsberg.bsky.social, Juliette Françoise, Mathias Istrup Karlsmose, Benjamin Khoo Jun Qi, Pichayapat Naisupap, @annapytlowany.bsky.social, @sebjrose.bsky.social, and Sean Silvia.
June 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨In print now, new co-authored publication with some great scholars! This article grew out of a manifesto developed by participants in of the June 2023 summer school Socio-Economic Diplomatic History organised by Leiden University’s Institute for History, the Global Diplomacy Network
Love seeing this at the top of Colonial Office documents
June 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Love seeing this at the top of Colonial Office documents
Having recently finished #Andor , I was reminded of the shows emphasis on communication technology and networks for both the rebels and the empire. In contrast to so much sci-fi, it presents communication networks as contested and vulnerable to cooption by weaker actors 🧵
May 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Having recently finished #Andor , I was reminded of the shows emphasis on communication technology and networks for both the rebels and the empire. In contrast to so much sci-fi, it presents communication networks as contested and vulnerable to cooption by weaker actors 🧵
Fantastic research trip to PK Porthcurno's archive this week. Fascinating story of how a small hamlet in Cornwall was transformed into a communication hub for the Eastern Telegraph Company. Well worth the trip to the museum, archive and coast for any telecommunications enthusiasts 📻🛜🌊🏖
May 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Fantastic research trip to PK Porthcurno's archive this week. Fascinating story of how a small hamlet in Cornwall was transformed into a communication hub for the Eastern Telegraph Company. Well worth the trip to the museum, archive and coast for any telecommunications enthusiasts 📻🛜🌊🏖
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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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This Day in Labor History: March 6, 1886. The Great Southwest Strike began, marking the start of a year of worker revolt against the exploitation of Gilded Age capitalism. Over 200,000 railroad workers went on strike, but the failure to win helped usher in the decline of the Knights of Labor.
March 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This Day in Labor History: March 6, 1886. The Great Southwest Strike began, marking the start of a year of worker revolt against the exploitation of Gilded Age capitalism. Over 200,000 railroad workers went on strike, but the failure to win helped usher in the decline of the Knights of Labor.
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New book review:
Rose on Ding, Jeffrey: _Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20061633
Rose on Ding, Jeffrey: _Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20061633
Ding, Jeffrey. Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition. : Princeton University Press, 2024. 306 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691260341. Reviewed by Sebastian James Rose (Loughborough University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (March, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
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March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New book review:
Rose on Ding, Jeffrey: _Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20061633
Rose on Ding, Jeffrey: _Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20061633
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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @sebjrose.bsky.social (@lborouniversity.bsky.social)’s review of @jeffreyding.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social)’s book _Technology & the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_ 2024 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Check out @sebjrose.bsky.social (@lborouniversity.bsky.social)’s review of @jeffreyding.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social)’s book _Technology & the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_ 2024 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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March 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @sebjrose.bsky.social (@lborouniversity.bsky.social)’s review of @jeffreyding.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social)’s book _Technology & the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_ 2024 @princetonupress.bsky.social
@hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out @sebjrose.bsky.social (@lborouniversity.bsky.social)’s review of @jeffreyding.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social)’s book _Technology & the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition_ 2024 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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A map produced by the RAF in the early 1920s on the military division of troops across Palestine
January 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A map produced by the RAF in the early 1920s on the military division of troops across Palestine
This looks fantastic. We need more work like this that focuses on labourers and their role in maintaining colonial infrastructures!
For History Compass, I wrote about new directions in the study of the history of technology in modern South Asia. I explored the potential of these historiographic trends through poetic laments of an early 20th-century railway carpenter named ‘Abdul ‘Aziz in Lahore...
A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology?: New Opportunities From Modern South Asia
This article examines interconnected questions that are central to new scholarship on the history of technology in modern South Asia. Which communities, groups and individuals have formed and sustain...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:28 PM
This looks fantastic. We need more work like this that focuses on labourers and their role in maintaining colonial infrastructures!
Bluesky historians, can anyone point me towards a cultural history of railway trade journals in the US? 🛤
November 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Bluesky historians, can anyone point me towards a cultural history of railway trade journals in the US? 🛤
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Things to come
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October 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I've started a Substack, focused on the history of technology, empire and contemporary tech and culture. Subscribe for the weekly newsletter.
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Cool flag thread. Republic of Venice with the Banner of St. Mark c.1650
September 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Cool flag thread. Republic of Venice with the Banner of St. Mark c.1650
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This fascinating publication on "Contagion, Technology and Law" is out in OA now 🗃️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
August 5, 2024 at 3:57 PM
This fascinating publication on "Contagion, Technology and Law" is out in OA now 🗃️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
🚨Publication alert!
My chapter, 'British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864–1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves', in the excellent open access collected volume, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, is out now!
My chapter, 'British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864–1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves', in the excellent open access collected volume, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, is out now!
July 27, 2024 at 6:01 AM
🚨Publication alert!
My chapter, 'British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864–1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves', in the excellent open access collected volume, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, is out now!
My chapter, 'British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864–1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves', in the excellent open access collected volume, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, is out now!
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Our next presenter is Sebastian James Rose (2023-24 LHL Fellow), who is sharing a chapter of his dissertation on the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
He begins w/a close analysis of a lithograph showing the various company personnel & laborers who built/maintained/secured the line. #SHOT2024
He begins w/a close analysis of a lithograph showing the various company personnel & laborers who built/maintained/secured the line. #SHOT2024
July 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Our next presenter is Sebastian James Rose (2023-24 LHL Fellow), who is sharing a chapter of his dissertation on the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
He begins w/a close analysis of a lithograph showing the various company personnel & laborers who built/maintained/secured the line. #SHOT2024
He begins w/a close analysis of a lithograph showing the various company personnel & laborers who built/maintained/secured the line. #SHOT2024
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What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies?
Sebastian James Rose looks at the agency of labour in our latest article. 🗃️
Sebastian James Rose looks at the agency of labour in our latest article. 🗃️
The Telegraph From Below
What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies? Sebastian Rose on the agency of labour
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June 28, 2024 at 11:12 AM
What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies?
Sebastian James Rose looks at the agency of labour in our latest article. 🗃️
Sebastian James Rose looks at the agency of labour in our latest article. 🗃️
What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies?
Check out my latest blog article for History Workshop Journal Online.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/the-t...
Check out my latest blog article for History Workshop Journal Online.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/the-t...
The Telegraph From Below
What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies? Sebastian Rose on the agency of labour
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
June 28, 2024 at 12:50 PM
What can subaltern telegraph workers tell us about empire and its technologies?
Check out my latest blog article for History Workshop Journal Online.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/the-t...
Check out my latest blog article for History Workshop Journal Online.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/the-t...
🚨 My first journal article on telegraph workers, labour, race, and agency in the Indo-European Telegraph Department is out now in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. Check it out!
The Telegraph from Below: Race, Labour and the Indo-European Telegraph Department 1862–1927
In describing the landing of the Indo-European telegraph cable at Faw in 1862, the future British Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD)
academic.oup.com
May 3, 2024 at 4:14 PM
🚨 My first journal article on telegraph workers, labour, race, and agency in the Indo-European Telegraph Department is out now in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. Check it out!
Really happy that I passed my viva on tuesday. It was nice to mark the culmination of four years research and writing with celebrations. Thank you again to my supervisors Dr Gavin Rand and Dr Michael Talbot and to Professor Ali Ansari, Dr Hélène Maloigne, and Dr Michael Fiddler for the examination 🎓
May 3, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Really happy that I passed my viva on tuesday. It was nice to mark the culmination of four years research and writing with celebrations. Thank you again to my supervisors Dr Gavin Rand and Dr Michael Talbot and to Professor Ali Ansari, Dr Hélène Maloigne, and Dr Michael Fiddler for the examination 🎓