Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Exciting programme this term at the IHR Latin American History seminar. Papers by Andrés Bustamante (Oxford), Mariana Labarca (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Andre Jockyman Roithmann (QMUL), Jerónimo Rilla (UCL) and Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos (UNAM). All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Magnífica reseña de mi libro Los años de Leguía (1919-1930) escrita por Carlos Aguirre, un magnífico historiador. revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/hi...

JOB: Lecturer (Teaching) in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcoloniality UCL - Arts and Sciences (UASc) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR901/l...

#Peru is paying a deadly price for its gold fever. My latest for @TheWorldToday #bloodgold www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

I’m losing track. Is Gramsci still to blame?

A brilliant new book on the visual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and Yellow Fever in Brazil @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social - A Fundação Rockefeller no Brasil: imagens do combate à febre amarela e à malária agencia.fiocruz.br/fiocruz-lanc...

¡Ya viene!

Viernes de lectura. Súper interesante y una edición muy bonita.

We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History! If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

It’s ironic that Adidas has brought out this nostalgia shirt, a reminder of when Peru were pretty decent (Cubillas, Chumpitaz, etc), just as the team has recorded one of its worst eliminatorias. Second to last, only managed two wins, a mere 6 goals, and none in away games. Still, better than Chile!

72! Let’s lawyer up.

Platt-amending the United States city by city.

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

All the candidates for the deputy leader position in the Labour Party trying to out-working-class each other. The fetishisation of working classness in this country is fascinating.

Postdoc in comparative areas studies at Charles University in Prague - includes Latin America as one of the area specialisations. www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/08/call...

There’s a great football chant directed at, err…, refs: ‘You don’t know what you’re doing! You don’t know what you’re doing!”. Uncanny.

🏛️Join my academic team at UCL. Still time to apply for: * Lecturer Humanities Data Science * ✅Full time ✅Open ended ✅In lovely London 💂‍♀️ ✅Closes 15 Sept. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI089/l...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Hi! We're putting a panel together for LASA 2026 on minerals and metals in Latin American history. So, if you do mining history, environmental history, riparian/waterway history, or history of science, get in contact!

One of our exciting new books this month is "A Wide Net of Solidarity," by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, which shows how the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA) provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

Another War of Jenkins’ Ear?

Vamos a tener que hacer hincapié en como se pronuncia Hincapié. #arsenal

👇One more week to apply!

Earlier this year, UCL successfully launched a new 10-week educational initiative at HMP Belmarsh, alongside partners DWRM. Directed by Dr Caroline Parker, the aim of the series was to allow those in prison to benefit from UCL’s world-leading education. 🔗 Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar at the Royal Festival Hall. Glorious.

Reformation followed by Voltaire. Whoever planned this mall knows their history.

New review! Paulo Drinot on Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria's 'Cartografía histórica del Perú, desde 1529 hasta el siglo XXI'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.003

"Modern Peru," edited by @paulodrinot.bsky.social & Alberto Vergara, offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/dOSbIpS #History #Peru

Tom Morello with “Sendero Luminoso” written on his guitar. Crap music, worse politics. Read a book, gringo cojudo. Better still, read the report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Well, what do you know.

We have a cover!

That was poor. Did we manage more than two passes? A win is a win though. #arsenal

I’m grateful to David S. Parker for this generous review of my book ‘Los años de Leguía, 1919-1930’

Out! @jrilla.bsky.social (@ehess.fr & @ucl.ac.uk) argues that personification in "Facundo" (1845) by Domingo Sarmiento (later President of Argentina) "served to render a new political entity, the caudillo state, intelligible and to galvanise opposition against it" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme! 🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🔹 Full time, open ended contract 🔹 London 🔹 £54,931 Closes 8 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Define “worth”.

Si estuviera vivo, Bruno Latour estaría observando lo de la isla Santa Rosa y ríendose: “!Ya ven, je vous l’avais bien dit!”

Check out my review of Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria’s terrific volume on the history of cartography in Peru: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨Welcome to our new Lecturer in US Politics✨ Dr Proctor is a political scientist specialising in US politics and elections and joins us from 1 Sept 2025. Andrew will be facilitating modules on US elections and behaviour, research methods, and LGBTQ and identity politics.

A ‘4* plus’ REF rating, you say?

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

Happy to share our new article in the Journal of Peasant Studies. We define a future research agenda investigating the capital segments and grabbing mechanisms involved in grabbing back redistributed and restituted lands. @uclamericas.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My review of James Scorer’s fine volume on comics in Latin America. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting to see that this book now has a webpage. Includes chapters by Bianca Premo, Adam Warren, et moi, among others. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

La Universidad de Columbia pagando cupo a Trump. Cada día peor los yunaited.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Entrevista sobre mi libro ‘Los años de Leguía, 1919-1930’. librosami.pe/2025/07/paul...

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).