'Prasad's 'THE DOOM LOOP: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder' contends that changes to the balance of power —the rise of China and India, the waning dominance of the West—have transformed the world economy into an engine for disorder.' HURST www.economist.com/culture/2026...

‘She was never content with the view, accepted not only among the aristocracy during her childhood, that “the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate” were part of a divinely ordered social structure.’ Rosemary Hill on a new biography of Jessica Mitford. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Learn more about Theodor Meron's inspiring story 'A Thousand Miracles' here: tinyurl.com/4dx6326t

This is a glorious book by the way

An astonishing memoir from the Holocaust survivor who oversaw the world’s first genocide trials and has advised the ICC on crimes in Israel and Gaza. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2026/01/16/t...

www.the-tls.com/culture/food... ‘An infectiously enthusiastic herringist-in-chief, Graeme Rigby has produced a book that will doubtlessly convert others to the cause. . . Surprises and idiosyncrasies . . . are much of the pleasure.’— @thetls.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

The surreal drama of Helsinki’s history Henrik Meinander tells the story of a city ravaged by plague, fire, war and occupation being constantly rebuilt and resettled over five centuries. spectator.com/article/the-...

'The domains of the Habsburgs formed a political and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.' Lovely review in the WSJ of luka Jukic's recent book on the history of Central Europe, from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

A Historian in Gaza: Filiu documents life under Israel's siege www.newarab.com/features/his...

Out this month: Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring, by @rigbysherrings.bsky.social. About the Atlantic Herring and its far-reaching dominions. From @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social www.herripedia.com

A Historian in Gaza: Filiu documents life under Israel's siege www.newarab.com/features/his...

Received a special delivery: ‘All That Glistens: Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain’ with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social Expect to see some reviews and interviews next week. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/all-tha...

Looking for a Christmas gift for a keen traveller, South America enthusiast or anyone interested in lost British histories? #SmallEarthquakes is available for half price in the @hurstpublishers.bsky.social sale until midnight tomorrow (9 December) 🎁 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/small-e...

👀Troublemaker by @cktroublemaker.bsky.social is out of stock with some retailers. But you can order for immediate despatch at 50% off until midnight December 9th directly from Hurst (and support an indie publisher in doing so!) A @newyorker.com and Kirkus Book of the Year 👉 tinyurl.com/3z8zha7jA

🐟 'Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring' is ‘A prodigious achievement, by turns erudite and great fun' @thespectator1828.bsky.social. It's out of stock with some retailers, but you can grab your copy at 50% off until midnight tonight directly from us ➡️ tinyurl.com/59kj4xxe

In Unbroken Chains @hurstpublishers.bsky.social former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals the extraordinary length and scope of African slavery and how ingrained it is in many societies. iol.co.za/sunday-tribu...

What might the modern progressive learn from Jessica Mitford? This intriguing question is posed by Troublemaker, a new biography of the writer known to friends and family more simply as “Decca”. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/11/jess...

To the end of her life, Decca had the daunting blue gaze, pure upper-class accent and ruthless, exploitative charm of a true Mitford. Kaplan’s account is solid, even-handed and, in the end, impressive.' www.spectator.co.uk/article/jess...

'In this first-rate biography, professor Carla Kaplan re-examines the life of Jessica Mitford, a young woman born into wealth and privilege who traded her aristocratic position for communist politics.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social quillette.com/2025/11/25/r...

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

'peculiar, fascinating and comprehensive — a book that takes a single fish species and transforms it into a lens through which to view history, economics, culture, & natural science.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Central Europe Survives: A Battlefield of Ideas Still Unfolding Today @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.thecipherbrief.com/central-euro...

'No review can do this book justice. Anyone wanting to understand France’s role in Africa along with the background to the new wave of anti-French and anti-colonial feeling, especially in the Sahel, should give it a read.' liberationorg.co.uk/comment-anal... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

‘Transformed by the People’: Revolution and Realignment' 'The details of HTS governance in Idlib provided are fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in Syria.' www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @wsj.com

‘Transformed by the People’: Revolution and Realignment' 'The details of HTS governance in Idlib provided are fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in Syria.' www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @wsj.com

Inside China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia thediplomat.com/2025/11/insi...

‘A superb piece of scholarship that distils more than 1,000 tumultuous years [of Lithuania’s history] into a coherent narrative.’ — Irish Times @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Zhou Bo is a retired Senior Colonel of the PLA and author of 'Should the World Fear China?'(Hurst, 2025). time.com/7327487/trum...

There was a robust trade in live eels in pre-modern England, & I know you're wondering: "How do I ship live eels?" Not in barrels of water. They'll use up the oxygen & die. Nope. You pack them in layers of damp moss or hay, & off you go. They don't need to be in water. Wut? 1/3 🗃️🧪

'Now, Jukic writes that, in recent discussion, Ukraine has become an “archetypal Kunderian state” — a country whose heart belongs in the west but one stunted by an imperial Kremlin.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @ljukic.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6b1c...

www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/tasty-new-... 'Rigby believes our attitude to the fish might be a hangover from the darkest of days when badly processed herring was shipped to the Caribbean as cheap food for slaves on the plantations.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

An experiment: If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.

'This book comes at a crucial moment in Britain’s history. It redefines not only our past, but assembles the ingredients to construct a possible future from the country’s maligned and often misunderstood multicultural reality.’ — Johny Pitts, author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Nice review by John Delury in Global Asia of the recent @hurstpublishers.bsky.social biography of Kim-Il Sung, by Fyodor Tertitskiy.

IR Book of the Week! "So You Want to Own Greenland?" by Elizabeth Buchanan. Trump is only the latest leader to desire controlling the key arctic island. This book explores why and how, going forward, it will be central to the "Great Game" of arctic competition.

The Bagpipes: A Fresh Look at a Familiar Symbol bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/22/t...

The Bagpipes: A Fresh Look at a Familiar Symbol bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/22/t...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mlorimer.bsky.social and @mgmessmer.bsky.social on Trump's crackdown on the menace of late-night chat show hosts and the day's other stuff, plus @warmatters.bsky.social on his terrific new book "War In The Smartphone Age". monocle.com/radio/shows/...