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PhD in Political Thought, University of Cambridge
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/thomas-j-holland
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Princeton University Press
25 days ago
We’re delighted to see Dan Edelstein's The Revolution to Come reviewed in the latest issue of
@litreview.bsky.social
! Learn more about the "impressive range and subtlety" of this book here, plus save 30% with code PUP30:
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Richard Bourke - Passage to a Better World
Richard Bourke: Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
https://literaryreview.co.uk/19609-2
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Hugo Drochon
about 2 months ago
Publication day today in the US for Elites and Democracy!🎉 For once the
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marketing team had a good idea😜
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Elites and Democracy
Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181554/elites-and-democracy?fbclid=Iwb21leAPJ8VJjbGNrA8nxTmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmg6-awX_GyjXzXfVpMMX2U6RHtMvhuYmjVn4RQbRty-457jhnoM_dyx7yfi_aem_Qxd6kz-T5BQ1OaSdQ9H4Gw
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Tehila Sasson
3 months ago
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!
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milo edwards
6 months ago
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
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Joanne Freeman
6 months ago
Hey folks: For those who asked about the conversation sponsored by the Library of America on the importance of Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" in the present day, here you go:
youtu.be/Anuh_fWV4hQ?...
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Reading Democracy in America Now
YouTube video by Library of America
https://youtu.be/Anuh_fWV4hQ?feature=shared
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Robert Saunders
6 months ago
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.
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John Gallagher
6 months ago
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/melvyn-bragg-decides-to-step-down-from-presenting-in-our-time/
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Samuel Moyn
7 months ago
Just finished: “Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Hoard Power and Wealth - and What to Do About It,” coming early June 2026 [And you thought I was unpopular on this site before…]
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Jo Wolff
7 months ago
Apparently Victor Hugo had back problems and so for the fifteen years he lived in Guernsey he wrote at this little standing desk, changing the slant from time to time to bring him relief from pain.
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Past Present Future Podcast
8 months ago
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is one that started out as satire and ended as a political slogan. David talks to historian of ideas Ben Jackson about meritocracy and its origins in Michael Young’s book The Rise of the Meritocracy published in 1958. Find us at...🎧
ppfideas.com
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Duncan Bell
9 months ago
Richard Whatmore & Lasse Andersen, "John Pocock and the Jealousy of Trade" (2025) A fascinating essay on the impact of Istvan Hont on J. G. A. Pocock's work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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John Pocock and the Jealousy of Trade
At the end of The Machiavellian Moment, J. G. A. Pocock was unclear about what happened to the classical republican/civic humanist tradition. Significantly, he did not make the anticipated point, f...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2025.2494411?src=recsys#abstract
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Heron posing for a photo (iPhone shot)
10 months ago
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Vafa Ghazavi
10 months ago
If you’re interested in inequality and the future of democracy,
@drodrik.bsky.social
on
@ppfideas.bsky.social
with David Runciman is essential listening.
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Noam Maggor
10 months ago
📣
#BeyondNeoliberalism
— updated site now live 📣 Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more. Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
@hboushey.bsky.social
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@drodrik.bsky.social
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beyond-neoliberalism.org
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Robert Saunders
10 months ago
Likewise, if someone brings a loudspeaker to a beauty spot they're essentially claiming control over the whole area. They're decreeing that no one else is allowed to enjoy it in peace. We might accept that now & then, but there's a point at which liberals can intervene to roll back power over others
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Robert Saunders
10 months ago
Not necessarily. In essential shared public spaces - like buses or the tube - playing loud music is an exercise of power over others. It compels them to listen to it & means they're no longer free to sleep, relax or work. Liberal societies often limit one person's freedom to protect that of others.
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100 years before Piketty, the aptly named economist and Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money used newly available death duty data to map wealth inequality in the UK. Thought this visualisation was pretty striking Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
11 months ago
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Arbroath, Scotland 🏴 Pt. 2
11 months ago
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Joint Center for History and Economics
11 months ago
Please join us on Tues 8 April @ 12pm EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) when Maya Jasanoff (
@europeatharvard.bsky.social
) will speak about 'The Birth of the Family Tree'. Lunch will be served following the seminar! Click for further info, abstract and Zoom link:
histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jas...
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MAYA JASANOFF
The Birth of the Family Tree
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jasanoff.html
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Arbroath, Scotland 🏴
11 months ago
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100 years before Piketty, the aptly named economist and Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money used newly available death duty data to map wealth inequality in the UK. Thought this visualisation was pretty striking Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
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Matthew Holehouse
11 months ago
Robert Lighthizer, then USTR, is a good read for a Trump admin perspective on the talks. the tone of humouring an old friend with limited expectation of success
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WuTangIsForTheChildren
11 months ago
Bus stop outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London….Know your parasites!
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Introducing the new fragrance: Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
11 months ago
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Adam Tooze
12 months ago
It may be time to panic in the UK … perhaps !?
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Mark Elliott
12 months ago
A fantastic opportunity to work with Dr Niamh Gallagher, one of my colleagues at St Catharine's College
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Carol Atack
12 months ago
Very much enjoyed talking to
@polphilpod.bsky.social
about Plato’s figure of the tyrant in the Republic. Plato like all ancient Athenians worried endlessly about how democracy slides into tyranny & his psychological account of tyranny is deeply insightful.
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This was his best interview yet by miles - highly recommend!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0quh...
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Gary Stevenson on taxing the rich and why you're getting poorer | WTCTW podcast
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0quhLtBXijM&ab_channel=Channel4News
12 months ago
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Tom Clark
12 months ago
Welfare Vs Warfare? Rubbish! How Keynes can help us avoid a poisonous choice. (And this is NOT the free-spending Keynes you think you know)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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Rearmament doesn’t have to be on the backs of the poor
The PM and chancellor should ignore right-wing pundits and look back to Keynes in 1940 to see how to fund defence fairly
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economics/69477/rearmament-doesnt-have-to-be-on-the-backs-of-the-poor
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Dave Andress
12 months ago
People on benefits are already in deep poverty. The Labour Party should exist to help them to have better lives. Instead it’s determined to make their suffering worse.
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The New Liberal political theorist L. T. Hobhouse predicted the early 20th c. rise of suburbia and hostility of its middle class inhabitants towards substantive tax or social reform would become politically ‘a greater burden than the slum.’ Democracy and Reaction (1904)
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 year ago
#academicsky
#philsci
British Academy looking for clever stuff
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Massachusetts Historical Society
about 1 year ago
Our short-term fellowship applications are due by this Sat., 1 Mar. Apply today to compete for fellowships that support research in a variety of fields. Most fellowships carry a stipend of $3,000 for 4-weeks of research at the MHS. Learn more:
www.masshist.org/research/fel...
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Ted McCormick
about 1 year ago
in 8-10 years someone from Silicon Valley is going to invent the university, genuinely unaware that it's been done before
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John Maynard Keynes at work - from the Radical Modernity exhibition in London (paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell)
over 1 year ago
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Keynes on the corrosive effects of the hereditary principle upon society, whether aristocratic or capitalist
about 1 year ago
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Check out my partner’s sculptural installation, made with ‘found materials’ as she rushed to work this morning: ‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)
about 1 year ago
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‘Those politicians lamenting falling birth rates might worry less about the erosion of Judeo-Christian ethics and more about why young couples are struggling to buy a home or afford to have children.‘ 👏
www.ft.com/content/344e...
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The Maga-fied right is missing Britain’s real crisis
It’s not a terminal moral malaise that’s blighting the country, it’s an economic one
https://www.ft.com/content/344ed2ff-19ce-40c5-86df-7530f8766ea7?accessToken=zwAGLqaqyeGwkc80TtL_Gc5AxdOG33Uw-HZupw.MEUCIQDc2D62cak_RbXjnt49kQhNoWkr39wrqhsImlQ48bB1DwIgKBha5AW6X3LXcPENe33f9q8QqT241d4bkQ8k8egQWlY&sharetype=gift&token=f082f5ff-0b44-4440-8ee8-311e2f15d139
about 1 year ago
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Important intervention by Piketty on Trump and Europe - and a much needed alternative to the doom loop of the European press
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about 1 year ago
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They’re currently accepting abstract submissions for this excellent ‘Multidisciplinary Mill(s)’ conference at Somerville College, Oxford on 20th May, abstract deadline is 28th Feb.
library.some.ox.ac.uk/multidiscipl...
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Multidisciplinary Mill(s) – Somerville College Library
https://library.some.ox.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-mills/
about 1 year ago
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State of British housing update: Rogue greedy landlords are building a dodgy construction next to our garden for an extra few pounds of passive / unearned income and now there are rats kicking about outside our door
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgN...
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Return Of The Rat (Outtake)
YouTube video by Nirvana - Topic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgN2nbs37Q&pp=ygUZcmV0dXJuIG9mIHRoZSByYXQgbmlydmFuYQ%3D%3D
about 1 year ago
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They’re currently accepting abstract submissions for this excellent ‘Multidisciplinary Mill(s)’ conference at Somerville College, Oxford on 20th May, abstract deadline is 28th Feb.
library.some.ox.ac.uk/multidiscipl...
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Multidisciplinary Mill(s) – Somerville College Library
https://library.some.ox.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-mills/
about 1 year ago
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Alright everyone, it’s been a very tough decision to make, but I’ve decided I won’t be buying that Tesla Cybertruck as a selfless gesture of solidarity with our friends over the pond
about 1 year ago
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Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)
about 1 year ago
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‘Asset price inflation continues to destroy the social fabric of this country.’ There, I fixed the headline for you FT.
about 1 year ago
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enzo rossi
about 1 year ago
Political theory/philosophy job! Here is the third postdoc (36 months) on our Gerda Henkel Foundation project on anti-oligarchy. This one will be based at TU München, and supervised by my co-PI Manon Westphal.
www.hfp.tum.de/hfp/aktuelle...
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Postdoc Fellowship (36 months, starting 1 April 2025)
The Research Project “Contours of a Non-Oligarchic Democratic Future”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, invites applications for a Postdoc Fellowship (36 months, starting 1 April 2025)
https://www.hfp.tum.de/hfp/aktuelles/stellenangebote/article/postdoc-fellowship-36-months-starting-1-april-2025/
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Bodleian Libraries
about 1 year ago
We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information:
tinyurl.com/48uuw625
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Job Details
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=177483
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Past and Present
about 1 year ago
Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships
@ihr.bsky.social
close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Past & Present Fellowships
Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.
https://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/early-career-fellowships/past-present-fellowships
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Antoine Paccoud
about 1 year ago
New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by
@csllux.bsky.social
, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions!
jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
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Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01
Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01
https://jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur-Alzette-Research-Associate-%28Post-doc%2C-fm%29-in-the-history-of-property-inequalities-Ref-25-01-L-4366/1144615155/
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