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Way to go @briandrohan.bsky.social!

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Not helpful in resolving the fascism/Gilded Age analogy standoff politicalwire.com/2024/12/24/t...

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Say what you will about the Huntingtons and other Gilded Age barons: they built libraries rather than pillaging them and trying to replace them with AI

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A strange thing to discover while I'm working here: British imperial fascist Francis Yeats-Brown argued in 1932 that "civilization" would survive a world war because "there is enough of it in the Huntington Library at Pasadena ... to restart all our science, art and literature"

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Very cool lineup! Thanks @leftbookclub.bsky.social

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We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...

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Roger Griffin arguing against "those naive enough to assume fascism died in 1945": "it is in fact like a super-virus which constantly evolves to accommodate changes in its habitat, producing a wide variety of new strains resistant to traditional prophylactics"

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This metaphor keeps surfacing lately: Royal Navy officers as the drone operators of the nineteenth century, inflicting damage at a distance with even less oversight than today www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Will be very interested to see this next fall. It’s a welcome departure for the IWM exhibition hall and could set the standard for a new public history of British decolonization www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

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My review of Laurie Benton's They Called It Peace is out in Diplomatic History academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

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My review of Laurie Benton's They Called It Peace is out in Diplomatic History academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

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Here's something I've been working on. "Entwined Escalation: Total War and Colonial Violence," a chapter in what will be an amazing volume edited by Bruno Cabanes and Cam Givens papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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There's something, um, familiar about how contemporaries saw Cecil Rhodes. He had "a love of diamonds and a contempt for women; he loved not merely appreciation but flattery of the grosser kind." And he had "a tendency to bully those who were in no position to retaliate."

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Here's something I've been working on. "Entwined Escalation: Total War and Colonial Violence," a chapter in what will be an amazing volume edited by Bruno Cabanes and Cam Givens papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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A nice review of Age of Emergency in the London Review of Books. They pulled a great quote from the book for the headline. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Mentioning as I learned about the book here: Just finished @eriklinstrum.bsky.social ‘s ‘Age of Emergency’. To say I ‘enjoyed’ a work centred on colonial violence doesn’t feel quite right, but it does a great job showing how awareness of that violence permeated UK culture & society at the time.

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Now available to re-order, published in June, The Truth about Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism (essays in response to Nigel Biggar's Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning): www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-tru...

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For The New Republic, I wrote about Frantz Fanon and the excellent new biography by Adam Shatz

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Honored to see Age of Emergency on the shortlist for the Templer Medal

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It is going to take me a while to recover from my first viewing of THREADS, the 1984 BBC nuclear apocalypse drama (now showing on the Criterion Channel and also on Youtube). The documentary-style format makes the descent into the unfathomable terrifyingly fathomable.

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It’s official: the journal affectionately known as TCBH is now Modern British History. Stay tuned for a blockbuster first issue with features on teaching, Four Nations, and the future of the field; reflections on classic articles from the back catalog; and more

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Thrilled to see Age of Emergency longlisted for the 2023 Templer Medal, along with some other terrific titles www.sahr.org.uk/event-report...

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Pleased (?) to report I have found a pub with a lavish tribute to David Livingstone

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"Israel has relied on an AI-powered facial recognition system known as 'Wolf Pack,' an extensive database containing information on virtually all Palestinians, including photographs, age, gender, where they live, family histories ... close associates, and a security rating for each individual."

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The largest library in the UK and one of the biggest in the world has effectively been turned into a cafe and gift shop indefinitely. Extraordinary this hasn’t been a bigger story.

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Cool to see my little piece on King Charles, salvage colonialism, and green imperialism named one of the best Medium stories of 2023 blog.medium.com/32-of-our-fa...

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I don't want to jinx it but think I might have finally arrived at the ideal reading list for a modern British history survey. (Shorter readings not shown.)

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If you could recommend one reading on the British response to covid (say, for the end of a modern British history survey), what would it be?

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Just off to Alan Lester and the good people at Hurst. Excited to see the rest of the volume and especially the foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social in the spring www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-tru...

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30% off Harvard UP books with code HOL23. I have a suggestion

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Another year, another round of updates for the final lecture in my British Empire course: the failed Voice referendum in Australia, King Charles's "sorrow" for atrocities in Kenya, the long afterlife of colonial law in Palestine. The imperial past isn't past yet

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Grateful to Miles Taylor for this kind and thoughtful TLS review of Age of Emergency, which he calls "compendious and insightful"

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