Keir Starmer feels "betrayed"

Delighted to find this beast in the post

Delighted to find this beast in the post

think ive managed to connect my chapter on the racism of the international order to the racism of space expansionism and the connection is more than the South Africanism of Jan Smuts and Elon Musk... but does owe a lot to @duncanbell.bsky.social, @quinnslobodian.com and @jordanscarroll.bsky.social

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

On Mathew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright) with shout outs to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @jcherniss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

On George Sabine on Montesquieu With a footnote to @duncanbell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

On Popper as the Useful Idiot of Anti-History. Responding to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi... Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

🚀 35 years ago Helen Sharman became the first Brit in space 🚀 It's a great privilege of mine to be able to work with Helen at @sciencemuseum.org.uk: her spacesuit is on display in our Space Gallery, and she narrates the new and improved Space-on-a-Sphere projection. youtube.com/shorts/RYBpP...

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build the new website & the technology underpinning our OJC Journals Catalogue. Great to see it out in the world! 🔥

new from alum Emma Planinc, MA '12, now Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and recent RGCS Lecturer: "Wells and Human Rights," in Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole, eds, The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells, OUP 2026 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale, lasting until the 9th of June. It covers most of their catalogue. If anyone is interested, it includes a few of my own books:

I'm in this!

Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale, lasting until the 9th of June. It covers most of their catalogue. If anyone is interested, it includes a few of my own books:

Duncan Bell, "Scripting the City: J. G. Ballard Among the Architects" in Bell & Zacka (eds.), Political Theory and Architecture www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political...

Duncan Bell, "Scripting the City: J. G. Ballard Among the Architects" in Bell & Zacka (eds.), Political Theory and Architecture www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political...

📚 Delighted to share that The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells has now been published online by Oxford University Press! I was very pleased to contribute Chapter 46, “Wells and the North American Literary Market” 🇺🇸📖 Thanks to the editors, @duncanbell.bsky.social and Sarah Cole!

My 2023 Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture, "The Moral Economy in Early Medieval Ireland", is now available as a free PDF download from the ASNC website, for anyone who's interested! #OpenAccess #MedievalSky #Spéirghorm #Speirgorm @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications...

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

Look what arrived in Hamburg today! 👇🏻👇🏻 @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de @hugheshall.bsky.social @jkappelmann.bsky.social @janwilkens.bsky.social

mind-blowing achievement

🚀🛸👽

Coming soon! Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells The Table of Contents can be seen here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:

"The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" - an interesting new autobiographical essay by John Dunn @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On Being and Suffering Imperialism at once: Nkrumah on the Europe Community open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

"The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" - an interesting new autobiographical essay by John Dunn @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So honored to be in this collection. Amazing editors and incredible contributors!

Utopianists! New book by Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao is out with OUP - check it out 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-top-general-with-horse-that-drinks-beer/

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Delighted to be a part of this book, and in such amazing company!

Coming soon! Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells The Table of Contents can be seen here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We are delighted to announce that the University of Cambridge has received a commitment of £190 million – the biggest individual donation to a British university in modern times – to establish the Rokos School of Government. https://youtu.be/oruSfls6jRE?si=sXGlMPuzcXBybQBQ

Loved this article featuring @aptshadow.bsky.social. An incisive and illuminating read. www.newscientist.com/article/2520...

Job alert! Loughborough University is advertising a three-year Research Associate position in Political Theory as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment’ (managed by Dr. Guy Aitchison). Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW886/r...

Duncan Bell, "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism," American Political Science Review (2018)

Duncan Bell, "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism," American Political Science Review (2018)

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

👇👇👇 cool new paper Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/arti...

An epic book

The latest novel in this entirely original science-fiction series features a human-size mantis shrimp as an "uplifted" species. It's ambitious and fantastic, says sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Bold action by the government to prevent the “incalculable damage” wrought by people from Sudan studying computational biology at Cambridge. www.ft.com/content/4493...

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Delighted that this is now out (w. @sunelaegaard.bsky.social), along with all the articles it introduces. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Hopefully of interest to anyone thinking (methodologically) about how 'empirical' leaning pol-theory might become more 'experimental', e.g....

An epic book