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jonesemily.bsky.social
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. Writing a book about the Disraeli myth and One Nation.
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Experience the future of the Portico! We’ve got a number of experimental events to support our Reunited project, a £9 million transformation to make the Library more accessible and sustainable. Check out this piece by @mcrwire.bsky.social & join us on this exciting journey! bit.ly/4kfH3GR

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Yesterday I was in Hull and had a lovely time talking to the new Centre for Conservatism about my book, but also to the wonderful people in Hull Minster about their Walter Crane stained glass!

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On my way to Hull to talk about conservatism! Today at 3pm. Join online here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/71e42c...

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Speaking as a native of this constituency I would eat the proverbial hat if this happens but you never know!

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When a 'tsar' just isn't enough.

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The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. https://go.nature.com/3CMl75y

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Join us online or in-person at 5pm GMT today for this exciting roundtable discussion.

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Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.

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More insights into boys' reading in the 1890s, Haggard, Stevenson, conan Doyle to the fore. Interesting to see Mrs Henry Wood so far up the lists. From school school library issues discussed by Andrew Lang in Longman's magazine.

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In which I share my thoughts! Also starting @richardtoye.bsky.social, Victoria Honeyman, and Rochard Gaunt www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

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Genuinely think this will be a highlight of my career. I am so excited to be finally meeting the brilliant Claire Rydell Arcenas and Glory Liu *in person*! 12 Feb, 5-7pm RAI Oxford - drinks to follow. Thanks to @raioxford.bsky.social for adopting us. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roundt...

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In the next issue of History Today I might mention Prime Ministers crashing the economy 😬😬😬

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"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening. Because, of course, many women do speak up, have always spoken up, and it is not only ‘bad’ men who ignore them." Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial. Highly recommended.

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Happy New Year from Ashridge, onetime (interwar) Conservative Party training college!

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🎇 Last of the 2024 in Review - The Changing face of Conservative Politics. Our top 5 posts on the ideological shifts of the right. Featuring @pjthinker.bsky.social, @timbale.bsky.social, @lauraserra.bsky.social, @jonesemily.bsky.social and @achryssogelos.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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A history of the French Revolution, as told by the Pip & Squeak 1938 Annual

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I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

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Immovable.

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Cool but it's a bold move to imply that Leslie Stephen didn't value books www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Ft. our very own Alex Campsie! Happy Unbirthday, EHR 🎂

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The one where they go to Claridge's #WolfsonHistoryPrize

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In case you missed it and are after some Sunday morning listening (or would enjoy a chat about Benjamin Disraeli), my life goal of being invited to speak on In Our Time was recently realised! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Bit nippy for a swim #Pemberley #OhMrDarcy

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Checking references in Richard Griffiths' Fellow Travellers of the Right (1983) and entered a temporary state of deja vu

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"What Manchester does today, the world does tomorrow”. Disraeli as also quoted by Andy Burnham last week.

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A comprehensive study of #Wollstonecraft and her reception in art, politics, philosophy & literature. Paperback with 31 color illustrations from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social

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Each year we ask our MA #19thC Studies students to choose a band name for their cohort and this year they picked… *drumroll*

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Now having flashbacks to other key undergraduate trends of this period: the 'rah', Jack Wills, new wave, electro brights, MASSIVE cardigans...

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Or, lessons I learnt from Gilmore Girls.

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Hurrah!

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I have one of these cats, too. This is Lupin.

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We were domestic servants and agricultural labourers for most of the nineteenth century and then moved somewhere more urban. Like everyone else! But gave me a personal story to fit into a macro one.

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DAILY MIDDLEMARCH! (Some of you may remember this from Mastodon.) Every day (more or less) receive a curated quotation from George Eliot's -- and the English language's -- greatest novel. Search #DailyMiddlemarch for the day's quotation -- or just follow me! Please share! (Today's quotation below.)

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