India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection
File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies of conquest

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/indian-archive-reveals-extent-of-colonial-loot-in-royal-jewellery-collection

#RoyalFamily #Looting #jewellery #ImperialHistory

Do you know where New France was?

No you don't, as Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer magisterially demonstrate in this gem of an article: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/haf/2011-v64-n3-4-haf0778/1017969ar/

Returning to teaching historiography of North America tomorrow, and very happy to start with this article, and the first chapters of Gilles Havard's _Histoire des Coureurs de bois_ 👌

#histodons #vastearlyamerica #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance #imperialhistory #atlantichistory

Just returning from a great conference on the #globalhistory of #war and #empire in #Amsterdam .

Learned a lot about military history and presented a paper on #merra #unrra and #refugeecamps for european #ww2 refugees from Greece and Yugoslavia who had been in #egypt during the war

(Just learning my way around here, so lots of # for the #histodons #imperialhistory #africanhistory @histodon @africanstudies )

Intro post:

Hi! I'm a PhD Researcher/environmental and resource historian based at the University of Exeter. In the past I've researched transimperial cooperation in Pacific Iron Mining, but now I am part of a funded PhD project studying corporate environmental sustainability strategies from 1880-1940. Specifically, I'm focused on the Telcon-owned gutta-percha Selborne Plantation on the Malay Peninsula from 1915 to 1940. Generally just happy to connect!
#historians, #phdlife, #imperialhistory