๐จPublication alert!
My chapter, 'British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864โ1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves', in the excellent open access collected volume, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, is out now!
Iโm applauding anything that speeds up the game. We can all lose the will to live waiting for re-starts.
Shot clock for pens & cons โ๏ธ
30 seconds to set a scrum โ๏ธ
Crack on with line-outs โ๏ธ
Wash away water carriers โ๏ธ
TMOs to pipe down โ๏ธ
All to be introduced on January 1st.
Rose concludes by highlighting what we can gain by studying the #telegraph from below:
1) Restoring agency to labor force
2) How race shaped labor divisions in imperial eng. projects
3) Challenging narratives of colonial progress (imp. of "low/slow" tech & processes)
#SHOT2022
This photo shows the crew of the CS (cable ship) Patrick Stewartโnamed for 1st director general of the Indian Telegraph Service (not @SirPatStew)โwhich fixed Indian Ocean & Persian Gulf cables.
Rose notes the prominence presence of South Asian laborers on this vessel. #SHOT2022
Rose provides a historical overview of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, noting how people of different ethnicities were assigned to specific types of work. (e.g., Armenians & Anglo-Indians selected for signaling.)
(Map source: https://t.co/kQPPZxucUd)
#SHOT2022
Hello again, @SocHistTech friends! We've got a busy day of #histSTM/#histtech panels lined up here at #SHOT2022.
I'm starting off w/a panel on Engineering & Empire sponsored by the Prometheans SIG & organized by 2020-21 LHL fellow @ellanfei!
Our next speaker, @sebrose91, is looking at the labor hierarchies associated w/the construction, maintenance, and operation of imperial telegraph networks (esp. the Indo-European Telegraph).
#SHOT2022
Delight to win the schools & education consultants category at the Association of Relocation Professionals (ARP) awards. Congratulations to the ACS team, thank you ARP #education#school#relocation#globalmobility @ACSCobhamSchool @ACSEgham @acshillschool @ACSintschools