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emile-chabal.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History. More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
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The longevity of France's nuclear testing in the South Pacific remains one of the Fifth Republic's great scandals. I'm glad the research is showing what we all knew about the cover-ups and the misinformation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Yes, please send us your ideas! We're always looking for blogs and we think we're a nice bunch :)

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Fancy learning more about the really cool book I co-authored on Western European states, irregular migration, and the politics of ignorance? Then tune in online to a panel discussion on the book in Birmingham on Thursday, 13:00-14:30 UK time. Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/states-of-...

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Lol to the fictitious pay figures. But also: the final salary scheme of the USS pension was closed to new entrants in 2011 and closed altogether in 2016.

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If you're in Cambridge on Tuesday, come and argue with me about whether Hobsbawm had a theory of capitalism or not!

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Can't wait to take this great collaborative book back on the road again!

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Bored with the Trumpfest and fancy a primer on what's going on in France? This is the best I could do in 30ish minutes when prompted by the excellent Gavin Esler...

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Time to reup this classic video of Marine Le Pen denouncing political corruption and embezzlement in 2004. The hypocrisy is strong with this one, Master Yoda! www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-...

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Some observations about the Marine Le Pen verdict: 1) WOW. They really went for it: prison term (w/electronic tag) and 5 years of ineligibility. That's almost exactly what the prosecutors asked for, so she's seriously guilty. 2) Will this halt the progress of the far-right in France? No. But... 1/

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Yes! Bring it on! Can't wait to see how this plays out! (And, oh my god, she is so guilty...) www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

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Yes, yes! Finally some French off-the-wall craziness to distract me from what's happening on the other side of the Atlantic! Anyone fancy chatting about islamo-gaullisme..?

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ABC Australia topped and tailed the lecture I gave in Sydney on the history of the French state for their "Big Ideas" show. The recording quality is really good, which makes me sound much smarter than I am. A lovely memory of a lovely trip. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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The leadership and staff at the NIH institute who processed 100 grants in an afternoon are heroes. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc

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The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was a big deal for a lot of French people, even if they hated him. I wrote this piece to explain why - and to look at how this most unsavoury of characters embodied all the aspects of French politics that no-one wants to see. jacobin.com/2025/02/jean...

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The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was a big deal for a lot of French people, even if they hated him. I wrote this piece to explain why - and to look at how this most unsavoury of characters embodied all the aspects of French politics that no-one wants to see. jacobin.com/2025/02/jean...

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"Examples".

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Hard to describe my sheer excitement at the news that my first book in French will appear in the autumn! It's a revised translation of my introduction to contemporary French history for Polity, which came out in 2020. Tell your French friends! Link: www.markushaller.com/d/Chabal-dos...

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I work in academic publishing as a journal editor and yet I still struggle so much with how slow academic publishing is... Does it have to be this way? (I say, knowing already the answer to this question).

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If this is where the French left ends up in 2027, I'm going to live in a cave. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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"States of Ignorance," the project book from the previous project I worked on (led by @christinaboswell.bsky.social and @emile-chabal.bsky.social, who edited the volume) has its first (good) review, in Nationalism & Ethnic Politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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