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New Cambridge Element Origins of Colonialism by Tirthankar Roy is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/3FoDpL7 #cambridgeelements #history







#MapOnATuesday We’re heading back to the golden age of the tram with this Street-corner tramway plan and directory of the official and business centre of Birmingham published in 1908. Ref: MAP/206273 LibraryofBirmingham


🚨I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with Stanford University Press is out, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini ☮︎, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright




Watch Sophia Rosenfeld talk about her book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, in conversation with Jennifer Szalai and Nicolas Guilhot. youtube.com/watch?v=KI9azl…


One of the best scholarly books I've read in a very long time. You should absolutely get a copy and read it yourself UChicagoPress



A sad birthday for me today: the National Endowment for the Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities) has terminated our grant for publishing Ukrainian literature in English translation effective immediately. This was the first such federal grant we received for our publications in 40+ years. Per the



The next seminar is Justine Pick @[email protected] 'Forecasting the Future: Financing the Elan Valley Water Scheme 1893-1955 for #Birmingham's supply 📆 Thurs 15 May 🕰️ 7:00-8:00pm Online only All welcome Birmingham Archives & Collections College of Arts+Law Newcomen Midlands Midland History eventbrite.co.uk/e/forecasting-…


new podcast interview with asheeshksi.bsky.social on the early modern British state and its information empire UMass Amherst Department of History Yale University Press J. History of Ideas jhiblog.org/2025/04/09/the…

In an excerpt of Hayek's Bastards for Boston Review, I talk about the anxiety of neoliberals that the Cold War had actually been lost. It begins with Charles Murray talking about gender + race science at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting...in the Galápagos.🦎bostonreview.net/articles/free-…