Essays

Empire’s Labouring Women’, Economic and Political History Review, August 2025.

A Tuition in Nutrition’, Lokayata, March 2025.

The government was enlisting women as its agents on the Food Front…Food and Nutrition upheld a biopolitics that rested on the patriarchal assumption of a naturalized link between home, kitchen, and woman—reinforcing her duty to nourish her husband, the worker, and her children, the nation’s future citizens.

Runaway Runways’, Joint Center for History and Economics ‘Visualizing Climate and Loss’ Series, November 2024.

The crumbling materiality of the runways makes them both an enduring testament to the labour of these women and a metaphor for their tenuous relationship with historical memory.

Radical Objects: ‘These are not ordinary women’’, History Workshop Online, August 2021.

Unheard and Unseen: Mining Women in British India’, Social History Society, July 2021.

‘The Women had Saved the Situation’: Indian Women’s Work in War and Famine’, Royal Historical Society ‘Writing Race’ Series, May 2021.

Churchill’s Legacy: Not Yet Set in Stone’, Uncomfortable Oxford ‘On Statues’ Series, July 2020.


Personal Writing

History, Hallowed Halls, and a Hangover: An Oxford Life’, The Blahck Sheep, August 2021.