Benjamin Thomas White
@btwhite.bsky.social
Researching and teaching refugee history.
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The signs at Cambridge train station saying 'Home of Anglia Ruskin University' also seem pertinent here.
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
The signs at Cambridge train station saying 'Home of Anglia Ruskin University' also seem pertinent here.
Obviously the only one who mentions the school they went to went to a private school. The current fees there are a mere £7,290 per term 'Incl VAT' (how they hate that!) but not including lunch, or £17,880 if you're boarding. Per term.
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Obviously the only one who mentions the school they went to went to a private school. The current fees there are a mere £7,290 per term 'Incl VAT' (how they hate that!) but not including lunch, or £17,880 if you're boarding. Per term.
NB One of them also has a PGDip from a post-92 (and there can't have been many of those on historic Wolfson History Prize shortlists). It's not one of the ones who went to Cambridge.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NB One of them also has a PGDip from a post-92 (and there can't have been many of those on historic Wolfson History Prize shortlists). It's not one of the ones who went to Cambridge.
Vazira Zamindar at Brown is working on a (big) book project on 'archaeology, art history, photography, film, war and the anticolonial struggle on the northwest frontier of British India'; she would certainly know much more about colonial-era air surveys in India than I do!
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Vazira Zamindar at Brown is working on a (big) book project on 'archaeology, art history, photography, film, war and the anticolonial struggle on the northwest frontier of British India'; she would certainly know much more about colonial-era air surveys in India than I do!
I did wonder if the Directorate of Overseas Surveys had done anything on India, but its predecessor agency the Directorate of Colonial Surveys was set up just before India and Pakistan became independent and seem not to have commissioned any surveys.
www.ncap.org/image-collec...
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Directorate of Overseas Surveys
The DOS Collection provides a unique historical perspective, recording the changing landscapes of much of the Commonwealth throughout the 20th century.
www.ncap.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I did wonder if the Directorate of Overseas Surveys had done anything on India, but its predecessor agency the Directorate of Colonial Surveys was set up just before India and Pakistan became independent and seem not to have commissioned any surveys.
www.ncap.org/image-collec...
www.ncap.org/image-collec...
Hmm. There's some 1960s satellite photography of India in the CORONA imagery (which I've recently written a wee bit about for the Middle East)—you can access that here:
corona.cast.uark.edu
But it may be too distant a view for the sort of thing you have in mind.
corona.cast.uark.edu
But it may be too distant a view for the sort of thing you have in mind.
Corona @ CAST UA
A simple georeferencing and orthorectifying system that enables the crowdsourcing of recently declassified Corona imagery datasets. Useful for geographers, archaeologists, and many other social and ph...
corona.cast.uark.edu
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hmm. There's some 1960s satellite photography of India in the CORONA imagery (which I've recently written a wee bit about for the Middle East)—you can access that here:
corona.cast.uark.edu
But it may be too distant a view for the sort of thing you have in mind.
corona.cast.uark.edu
But it may be too distant a view for the sort of thing you have in mind.