Kate Boehme (@katetalks) profile picture

Historian of Global, Imperial, and South Asian history

Leicester, England
Joined July 2011
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It may be cold outside, but seeing Teviot dressed up for the festive season makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside! And the School of History, Classics and Archaeology is only around the corner 🤩✨ #FestiveLights #Teviot #TheUniversityofEdinburgh #History #Classics #Archaeology
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📢 Out now on #FirstView Kate Boehme, 'Princely urbanism and the colonial city: #Bombay, c. 1860–1940s' 🔗 bit.ly/3Yv4Mbq #UrbanHistory
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📢 Out now on #FirstView Prashant Kidambi and Kate Boehme, 'Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives' 🔗 bit.ly/3ORYmyE #UrbanHistory
🚨 New publication alert 🚨 Our own Prashant Kidambi has edited a special issue of @UrbanHistoryCUP with @katetalks on Princely Cities in South Asia Check it out 👇
📢 Out now on #FirstView Prashant Kidambi and Kate Boehme, 'Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives' 🔗 bit.ly/3ORYmyE #UrbanHistory
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Kate Boehme retweeted
Extracts from Ruling the World on governance of the British Empire Coming up in the April 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine historyextra.com/magazine/ne…
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Tributes have been paid to Dr David Washbrook by his fellow historians Professors Joya Chatterji, Anil Seal and Boyd Hilton ow.ly/ttbB50DlPuL @CamHistory @OrientStudiesOx @StAntsCollege @Trinity1546
Terrific turnout for @historyleic's Partition of India events these past 2 days. VC @NCanagarajah: We will not shy away from researching difficult histories. In fact, we are more resolute than ever. @youthledhistory @LeicesterCSSAH @HyPIRUoL @uniofleicester
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We're pleased to announce the @CUHLeicester Spring 2021 seminar series! Seminars will be online on Fridays at 2:30pm (GMT), and all are welcome. Please email Prashant Kidambi for an email link ([email protected])
Her name is Dr. Jill Biden. Get used to it.
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Kate Boehme retweeted
Congratulations to @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris on your historic win! We have not only voted out the most corrupt, dangerous president in modern history but have the opportunity to carry out the most progressive agenda our country has ever seen. Let’s get to work!
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Yamini Krishna's presentation throws light on how racial discrimination was reflected in the practices, architecture and naming of the cinema houses in Hyderabad and Secunderabad. @PrincelyCities
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@CUHLeicester Janaki Nair elaborates on 'bureaucratic agraharas' in the making of the Mysore city @PrincelyCities workshop. #princelycities #southasia #newurbanhistory
The real national emergencies: - Relentless gun violence. - Children separated from their families at the border. - Climate change. - Americans dying for lack of health care.
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Call for papers - Princely Cities: Towards a New Urban History of South Asia, c. 1850-1960. Deadline: 1 February. The @PrincelyCities workshop will be held @CUHLeicester on 8-9 April 2019 #twitterstorians #globalhist #urbanhist
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Massive thanks to the wonderful Antoinette Burton for leading a fabulous & wide-ranging masterclass @historyleic this afternoon: Approaches to Empire #TeamGloCoPoco
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Leicester #Medieval Research Centre & the Global & (Post)Colonial Research Cluster are proud to host Elizabeth Lambourn: 'Abraham's Luggage - A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean' @uniofleicester KenEdw LT2, 5.30pm! @UoLHistory @HyPIRUoL @LeicsIAS @LeicesterUnion
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Hello everyone! We are very excited to be back for another semester of great speakers talking about their research. Here is our term poster with all the dates and titles of each lab. Remember Friday 4.30pm tea and cake, 5pm history, 6pm pub.
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Delighted to have our new article, on the late Victorian imperial archive and its contested political/historical/geographical imaginaries, published in the @JofHistGeog: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured a stark and sobering view of #HurricaneFlorence at 7:50 a.m. EDT on Sept. 12 as it churned across the Atlantic in a west-northwesterly direction with winds of 130 miles an hour.
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