jhowesuk.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Want 25% off the paperback edition of my book, “The Art of a Corporation”? Go to Routledge’s website (link below) and use this code: CISAC2025 www.routledge.com/The-Art-of-a...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The paperback of my book about the East India Company, “The Art of a Corporation”, is now available for pre-order!! www.routledge.com/The-Art-of-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Old pics of Delhi's famous markets from the post-Independence years: 1. Connaught Place on the night of Independence, 1947 2. Chandni Chowk's fountain area 'returning to normal' after the chaos of Partition 3. Ghaffar Market, Karol Bagh, soon after it was opened in March 1952

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Delicious highlights of Old Delhi. There were also jalebis served with a creamy sauce but I was so focused on eating them that I failed to take a photo.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I was delighted to see these Steve Zissou hats for sale in the Chhatta Chowk Bazaar, Lal Qila, Delhi.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Here's another picture I took at New Delhi 25 years ago. This one shows Connaught Place, looking down the Minto Road. In the distance, at the end of the road, you can see the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan between 1644 and 1656.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Back from India! Delhi was gorgeous, warm and sunny with clear skies. The air pollution wasn't too awful. These pictures are from a visit I made 25 years ago, while standing on Rajpath, looking towards India Gate to the left, and Rashtrapati Bhavan on the right. Times sure have changed.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Mughal painting of a narcissus made in around 1635 (British Library, add.or.3129, f.42) and a sculpture of a narcissus made during the same period, inside the Red Fort, Delhi.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

I don't know where to begin with this. So I'll just give you the facts. There's a beauty pageant in existence that goes by the name of... Miss British Empire. www.missbritishempire.com/winners.html

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

3 centuries before Humayun’s Tomb was built in the late 16th C, the land it stands on, known as Nizamuddin, was already an auspicious site for Muslim burials. In recognition of its long history, UNESCO has now more than doubled the size of this important World Heritage Site.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Ireland gets a potato, Scotland has a deer, Holland a windmill, and England… WHAT IS THAT?? Detail from an early 20th century Urdu map of the world, in the Palace Museum, Udaipur.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Crouching tiger, running camel. Wall painting in the 18th century Bagore Ki Haveli, Udaipur.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

PEER REVIEW.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Men on a boat watching a dance performance on the balcony of a lakeside mansion. This wall painting is in the 18th century Bagore Ki Haveli, Udaipur.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

View of Lake Pichola from Bagore Ki Haveli, an 18th century mansion at Udaipur. The Jagmandir Island Palace, now a five star hotel, is the white structure at the centre of the lake.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Elephant howdah given to Maharaja Jaswant Singh I of Marwar by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, 1657. Mehrangarh Museum #Jodhpur

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Dog with a stack of chapattis #Jodhpur

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Music & dance performance inside Amer Fort. The fort was built in the 16th century by Raja Man Singh. #jaipurlitfest2025

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Took the afternoon off from #jaipurlitfest2025 to see the Jaipur Palace Museum

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re at the Jaipur Literature Festival, I’d love to hear more about your work! Please post something at #JLF2025

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

On the road to the Jaipur Literature Festival!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Dancer in a red dress performing inside a European's house in Delhi. By a Delhi artist, c.1838. On her left a woman is singing while accompanied by musicians. They are facing their European patron... (1/2)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

A bard and his wife telling a story on a painted textile. He holds a cymbal in his left hand and she points at the relevant scene. A white cloth is spread in front of them for people to leave money. Painted by "Sami" of Madras, c.1780. In the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Estampes, Od 46a, 65).

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

January is almost over so here’s a list of historic pubs in London. livinglondonhistory.com/top-ten-hist...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The paperback edition of my book is out soon with Routledge. Chapter one is free open access so try before you buy. www.routledge.com/The-Art-of-a... In India, the hardback edition is distributed through Manohar. www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails/...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

My teenage son sleeps like this! Painting of Landhaur, the king of Ceylon, being abducted by a demon. In the Hamza Nama, commissioned by Akbar, c.1562-77 (MAK Vienna BI8770-19). In the V&A’s Great Mughals exhibition for a couple more weeks, then it’s swapped over for another painting.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

A young dancer throwing shapes by an artist from Patna, c.1840. Patna was an important province of the Mughal Empire. In the nineteenth century many skilled artists moved to Patna in search of patronage. @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add.Or.1839

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Female labourers assisting in the construction of Agra Fort. Detail from a painting commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, by the artist Miskin, 1590s. In the V&A’s Great Mughals exhibition.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Finally seen Jasleen Kaur’s Turner Prize entry at Tate Britain, and I’m wondering, why is the red Ford Escort covered in massive doily deliberately in second gear? Any answers? Jasleen Kaur, are you out there??

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments