This has been a while in the making. Grateful to the great team @enghistrev.bsky.social

So, my forthcoming book has a website! Massive thanks to Michelle Tusan & Holly Case for their endorsements! More to come manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616013...

📣 Episode #60 of The Lausanne Project Podcast is out! 📣🎉 Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼 thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...

Not sure if a deal is imminent as this “exclusive suggests” but the Parthenon marbles story never seems to go away. I’ll be discussing this in 15’ live at BBC News amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This is pretty cool!

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

🎓 Intersting new book on League of Nations: "Instruments of international order Internationalism and diplomacy, 1900–50" edt by Thomas Bottelier & @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social with chapters by @giannako.bsky.social @lukasschemper.bsky.social @kdstahl.bsky.social www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

In light of the news that the ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant along with one Hamas leader (the other two have been killed), this piece is once again relevant: www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/dont-...

For those interested in Greek politics, here’s a conversation in the English edition of “To Vima” on developments in the right wing www.tovima.com/politics/out...

Tough, moving, brave and utterly compelling reading by my fantastic DPE colleague Paul Sagar. Some of you will find this hard to read. But it is essential that you do.

About to do some more filming for the Canadian TV series Red River Gold. Here’s my blog about Wolseley, whose, let’s say ‘colourful’, account of the Red River Expedition launched him on his illustrious & bloody military career across the British Empire. alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ver...

Intellectual History & Friends Part 3 is here! Do let me know if there is anyone I should add or if you would like to be added go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL

Collections Researcher The National Archives #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ694/c...

⭐️ Exciting News ⭐️ Race & Resistance is excited to officially announce our 2025 conference, RESISTANCE, RENEWAL, REIMAGINATION: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain🚨 ⏳CfP deadline: 13th January 2025 📅 7th March 2025 📍University of Oxford Huge thanks to our sponsor, Black Academic Futures⭐

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Hello new followers! My book Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America just came out! academic.oup.com/book/58846 Over the next few days I will use this 🧵 to praise the ideas/books of others - friends, mentors, and enemies - that informed my own Stay tuned!

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

CFP for the @drinkingstudies @womenandalcoho1 conference, co-organised with the @wellcometrust "Drinking Cultures" project, hosted by @drlucycogan at @ucddublin next June. Our theme this year is 'Dangerous Pleasures?'. Please RT (and submit an abstract) www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...

War in History and Society, in a time of global conflict! go.bsky.app/UfGipcf

📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social [52.5] is now online 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Cover photo: Véronique Labonté Keep reading, keep citing

Pretty excited to return to my hometown for the first time since I left home for work, and some olive oil harvesting by one of Greece’s oldest surviving Roman baths. Orders anyone? 😁

Really looking forward to discussing on Thursday 3 excellent books on the past & present of peacekeeping, state building & decolonisation by Ksenyia Oksamytna, Geoff Swenson & @drmargottudor.bsky.social that speak to each other in many creative ways. Join us IP& OL👇👇🏿 www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Call for reviews! We are seeking proposals for book reviews to be commissioned for future issues @global-ih.bsky.social. If you have a proposal that fits the journal themes, email our chief editor, Rosario López. Early career researchers welcome - please share! www.tandfonline.com/action/journ...

My new review article on "Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon", by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan, is out in Global Intellectual History: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SGGRN...

Dion has just--disgracefully--been made redundant by the University of Chichester, so we should all be subscribing to his excellent new Substack at full price anyway, which makes this special offer an act of exceptional generosity on his part.