Thank you for your patience following last October's cyber-attack. This blog puts together lists of catalogues, online resources and digitised content currently available for our BL Asian and African collections. blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

Our newest Dialogues is all about anthropology & literature. It features conversations between anthropologists & writers with long-standing relationships, unpacking questions of translation, creativity, care and particularity. Read it in #OpenAccess 👇 rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This is where lower-usage items are stored, filed, packed and sent in a van for delivery to libraries. There are: - more than ten million items - 31 aisles, each 71m long with racking 11.4m high - 95,000 shelf levels - 153 miles of shelving

Exciting news! Applications are now open for a CDP studentship with Dr Diya Gupta (and me), starting in October on 'Visualising India's Wars in South-East Asia, 1938-1947.' You'll study with City, University of London and Imperial War Museums, full details here: iwm.org.uk/sites/default/… #twitterstorians #SWW

Excited to be a part of this project and event with Museum of Colour

Sangavi says “We’re live baby” #AVeryBritishRhythm A transnational story of dance 💃🏾 museumofcolour.org.uk/a-very-british…

Earlier this week Museum of Colour launched A Very British Rhythm - a digital exhibition on dancers of the global majority in the UK 🕺🏽 I was the research lead and wrote the exhibition text 💃🏽 Visit the exhibition here: museumofcolour.org.uk/a-very-british…

Upcoming talk🦜I follow a motley group of Indian performers around Britain who began a decade-long journey from the Wembley Exhibition-incidentally this its centenary year🎭Research conducted as TaPRA Fellow at Showtown History Centre

#podcast link🔊in which merisesher and I discuss transnational histories of dance, and performers of the global majority in the UK as a part of A Very British Rhythm exhibition for Museum of Colour museumofcolour.org.uk/a-very-british…

With views from archival fieldwork, on traveling performers and carnival heterotopias🦎🦜 #upcomingtalk

It was satisfying to bring narratives on Indian performers alive with century-old ephemera from Showtown 🗼With the lecture, my time as the TaPRA Research Fellow has come to an end. But the show will go on 🕺💃

#bookreview Reviewing the book was a privilege-the essays took me to roots, shoots and hearts of Eastern Himalayan cultures, and the pains of growing food. Thank you Rituparna Patgiri for your patience, and the authors for sharing your commitment to sustainability and food security🍄

Exciting project to witness. Much needed work on #IndigenisingTheHimalayas bringing dance-storytelling-archival materials to the public in a workshop by Rohini Rai Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) The Critical Himalayan Collective

🐉Nala Damajanti - a fabulous performer of animal acts from late 19thC is one of the few women I have been researching with a fellowship from WHN. I write on her and her reptile friends🐍 #womenperformers #performancehistory #WIP

Exciting times at a transdisciplinary symposium hosted by CRASSH, Cambridge Satinder Gill and their team, probing rhythm and how it braids digital, social, political, economic spheres. Lovely spaces! Presented a paper combining ethnographic research and archival materials.

Dance 👯meets ethnographic and archival research📽️presented at the Ethnochoreology Symposium of Int.Council for Traditional Music and Dance #ictmd the week was for deliberating challenges in researching movement, music, and dance in films. Ege Üniversitesi team has been fab! 🪭

This South Asian Heritage Month read about the lessons we can learn from our Indian grandmothers. #SAHM24 womenshistorynetwork.org/recognising-lo…