South Asian maids and nannies journeyed to Britain by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with returning colonials. bit.ly/3U34YOH

How powerful are the fossil fuel company executives? bit.ly/4ah3NkD

The appeal of the Spectro-Chrome Institute for many of its students was not just learning about how to address health concerns but also being part of a scientific endeavor. bit.ly/4cLqleH

Before the nineteenth century, police weren’t really a thing. So why did cities start police departments when they did? As always, the answer is the Industrial Revolution. bit.ly/3VGWZYP

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs? If you stumble upon a time machine, remember to bring your binoculars. bit.ly/3J3M4AZ

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Shipboard ayahs—traveling Indian nannies working for British colonial families—were an “elite and premium workforce.” They were paid more than non-traveling ayahs in India, and they appealed to the authorities when mistreated. bit.ly/3U34YOH

Impressionism is 150 years old this month. Learn about its origins and our changing attitudes toward it in our newest reading list from Allison Meier: bit.ly/3PMrNng

Covered with a stunning floral inlay and Quranic inscriptions, the Taj Mahal is renowned for the story of love that lies at its creation. Or at least it used to be. From architectural historian Ashley: bit.ly/3vzRcd9 #architecture #India

It's April 15: in the US that means Tax Day. In Ancient Egypt, a wealthy family might pay “precise measures of new wheat (150 hekat-measures, about 4.5 liters), malted barley (one double hekat-measure), 10,000 loaves of ter-bread' and more. bit.ly/3OdPEtz

We may live in a time of unprecedented culinary diversity, with food available from every corner of the world. But, as geographers Haripriya Rangan, Judith Carney, and Tim Denham write, people have been sharing food across long distances for millennia. bit.ly/3PMTc8P

In the late nineteenth century, the postcard became the ideal medium for expanding the audience for pornography, much to the concern of social elites. bit.ly/3TMDuvD

In this week’s Suggested Readings: why everyone’s talking about gaslighting, the social and intellectual work done of Black Greek Letter Organizations, and the salty threat to the sanctuaries of the Great Salt Lake. bit.ly/3J0IRCm

Over the decades, at least 10,000 people from all over the US completed ten-day trainings—or, in later years, correspondence courses—to become official affiliates of Dinshah Ghadiali’s Spectro-Chrome Institute. bit.ly/4cLqleH

The increased use of machines and the division of labor during the Industrial Revolution allowed for the production of standardized goods. It also made those goods easier to unload once they were stolen. bit.ly/3xvIVr1

If you were able to point your binoculars over the heads of Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, what could you spot? bit.ly/3J3M4AZ

South Asian nannies, ayahs, journeyed to Britain by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Disengaged once they were in England, the women typically went to the Ayahs’ and Amahs’ Home in Hackney, run by the London City Mission. bit.ly/3U34YOH

The first exhibition of paintings that would come to be described as Impressionism opened in Paris on April 15, 1874. Explore the art of Impressionism with our new reading list from Allison C. Meier: bit.ly/3PMrNng

During the European Enlightenment, radical thinkers challenged Christian views on cosmology, morality, and society by pointing to the ideas animating non-Christian civilizations, and, in particular, Chinese Confucianism. bit.ly/3vCZPDC

Groups such as Just Stop Oil are calling for change, but their aims need to be considered with respect to more than a reductionist slogan. bit.ly/4ah3NkD