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Chapati Mystery- In Memory of Kavita S. DatlaKavita Datla's keynote on Decolonization's political lives for the South-South conference pic.twitter.com/e5e7M767Vq — manan ahmed (@sepoy) October 21, 2016 At the end, here is my desperate search for the beginnings of memories. I turn first to emails but I cannot find a beginning in these emails, even the very first one is already in medias … Cont […]
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- CM Exclusive: Prologue to the Chinese Language Edition of The Darjeeling DistinctionBy Sarah Besky Sarah Besky received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (University of California Press, 2014) […]
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- Miss Jenny the cheetah visits EnglandMiss Jenny and another cheetah came to England in 1764. They were part of a collection of animals despatched from India by George Pigot, the Governor of Madras, who had made a vast collection of... Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s […]
- A Court Martial in IndiaHere’s a second instalment in the life of John Thompson born in Antwerp on the tenth day of Floreal, Year Twelve. Thompson was appointed as ensign in the East India Company’s Bombay Army on 27 March... Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Librar […]
- You were born when? The French Revolutionary CalendarAn accident of birth may have left one 19th-century Army cadet wishing his parents had been elsewhere when he came into the world. In March 1821 sixteen-year-old John Thompson tendered an application... Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Libra […]
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- The Battle of Lewisham 1977 - Forty years onDarcus Howe at the Battle of Lewisham, August 1977 The Battle of Lewisham - Reunion - How we stopped the Nazi NFFb event: https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/133868593825540/ Saturday 12 August at 13:00–16:30 UTC+01Clifton Rise, London, SE14 6, United KingdomForty years ago this August, thousands of anti fascists and locals from South East London stopped the […]
- Remobilising militant pasts: Histories of Protest, Unrest and Insurrection in Politics and CultureRemobilising militant pasts: Histories of Protest, Unrest and Insurrection in Politics and CultureKings College London - 31 August - 1 September 2017For programme and registration details please see here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remobilising-militant-pasts-histories-of-protest-unrest-and-insurrection-in-politics-and-culture-tickets-36308575928
- Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road? The British Left and the Russian RevolutionAs well as Marxism 2017, in central London from 6-9 July, tickets are now on sale for ‘Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road? The British Left and the Russian Revolution’, taking place on Monday 10th July at the British Library. More information, including the programme of the day is available at: https://www.bl.uk/events/must-britain-travel-the-moscow-road-t […]
- The Battle of Lewisham 1977 - Forty years on
