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Historian of modern Spain at Oxford. Currently thinking about sound and politics.
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Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History! Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025 Find out all the details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

Always a joy in the bleakness of January. Chuffed they've taken so well after being split and transplanted.

Looks great 👇👇

Grim, grim news. And a School of "Global Humanities" at the same time as slashing languages

CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025 helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

Another one for the list of must-reads

CfP: Connected histories of economic planning in Southern Europe 1945-1989 📅17-18 June 2025 📍NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2025

👇📢 Applications now invited for the Ramón Areces Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College Oxford for 2025-6. Amazing international environment, the resources of the Bodleian etc... www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...

Solidarity with colleagues out defending publicly-funded higher education in Madrid

Our starter pack now has a sequel! As ever, comment to be added to it! go.bsky.app/GX3v293

A rather impressive snowman in second quad given the desultory amount of snow

I'm starting a Modern European Historians list here on BlueSky. If you have any suggestions for others to include, add their handles in the comment below. 👍

Hello 👋 new followers! For those who don't know me: I wrote a book on radicalism in 1930s Spain and now mainly write about sound and politics across the C20, from pot-banging and charivari to loudspeakers and shouting.

The restored frontón Beti Jai, Madrid

First time that the Tories haven't won a general election since I gained the right to vote. I'm nearly 37.

I reflected on pots and pans as objects that are radical in their domesticity and mundanity for @historywo.bsky.social www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...

As the Other Place staggers towards collapse, I thought it was about time to take the plunge