Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

It's pretty boring, but I have a new article out on the first British attempt to collect and classify the languages of South Asia: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There's a large sale on over at @manchesterup.bsky.social, with 40% off on all books, including mine on fictional invasions (the fun type of invasions): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168856/

New article on early access in Scandinavian Journal of History: 'Military History in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Military Education': doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2025.2547697

Invasions: fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918 @manchesterup.bsky.social Out now!

Look what just arrived in the mail! The official publication date of Invasions is 15 April. And what a cool cover it has... @manchesterup.bsky.social