Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368XJul 25, 20226 min readResearching Displacement in Central Asia: A Reflection on the Use of SourcesHanna Matt Drawing on my dissertation research on displacement and famine in Central Asia, this blog post will reflect on the...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368XJul 14, 20227 min readThe Last Emir of Bukhara in Exile Across the Border Malika Zehni “… While the people of Bokhara were asleep… They set fire to the city and threw bombs from aeroplanes,” read the opening...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368XJun 29, 20225 min readMemories of Deportation - From the Russian Far East to Central Asia Mira Kuzhakhmetova The first migrations of Koreans to the Russian Far East were recorded in the second half of the nineteenth century....
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368XSep 16, 202111 min readSelling Siberia: Russian Railway Panoramas at the 1900 Exposition UniverselleTyson Luneau “…this immense sea, a sea reaching to the horizon, a blue sea crisscrossed by the flights of birds…A dream: Lake Baikal,...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368XNov 23, 20206 min readA file, an archivist, and a metal bookcaseEmanuela Grama “I don’t remember having seen this file before,” the archivist told me when he returned from the stacks to the reading...