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Modern British History Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2025: Helen McCarthy Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age and Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist!
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Modern British History Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2025: Helen McCarthy Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age and Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist!
@mbhjournal.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Solidarity of the Ruling Class A new book by a former <i>Shooting Times</i> editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough,…

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

Next week! Really looking forward to hearing from our excellent line-up of speakers. All welcome - free tickets are available on the link below.

Next week! Really looking forward to hearing from our excellent line-up of speakers. All welcome - free tickets are available on the link below.

We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!

The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...

Stefan Collini · Agent of Influence: Christopher Hill’s Interests Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual...

‘It must be doubted whether MI5 ever intended to provide invaluable assistance to future historians, but its obsessive logging of various suspects’ everyday doings has resulted in a small goldmine of sources in the National Archives.’

Stefan Collini on Christopher Hill
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A book with just the right ambition to provide a vision for a different future that yet misses the moment.

My review of Abundance for Foreign Policy.

Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.

Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.

Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

Strange new world | Andrew Orlowski | The Critic Magazine An impatient group of young, self-confident, AI-obsessed policy wonks is trying to re-shape Britain — inspired and funded by American tech billionaires.

A very funny takedown of the very weird and not a little disturbing Anglofuturism thing - pleased to be quoted in it. thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2...

Here's the line up for the IHR History of Political Ideas Early Careers seminar this term - it's going to be a good one! Sign up here if you want to come along: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/his... @ihr.bsky.social

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History” Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...

An excellent initiative.

"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."

Here's the line up for the IHR History of Political Ideas Early Careers seminar this term - it's going to be a good one! Sign up here if you want to come along: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/his... @ihr.bsky.social

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨

This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

The deadline for this is coming up soon! We've had some great abstracts so far and there's still time to submit yours!

The deadline for this is coming up soon! We've had some great abstracts so far and there's still time to submit yours!

The New Left In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together almost 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left

We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left.

This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...

Incredible East-West divide. The trend has been there for long, so it's not surprising - but still shocking.

Reminder that these protests work:

- Evidence from Greece:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

- Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-...

- Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Call for Papers University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025  The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally depicted through the lens of symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics: ma…

Last chance to send your abstract to the upcoming conference in Helsinki "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City" - send your paper proposal by 1 February! #CFP helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

An excellent new article by Max Fenner:

"Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964," Modern Intellectual History (2025)

@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Congrats!! (V keen to read this)

'Rebuilding a genuine civil society means constructing and supporting organisations deeply rooted in communities and built around people.' Enjoyed reading this on an otherwise very sad day.

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨

This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

Call for Papers: Global Degrowth - Eurac Research We invite authors from all disciplines, career stages, and backgrounds to contribute to a Special Issue exploring the global dimensions of degrowth!

Here's our Call for Papers on Global Degrowth: (Inter)dependencies, power, and justice - for the journal New Global Studies

Please share with interested persons. Edited with Jenny Ufer, Felix Windegger and Brototi Roy

www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Call for papers «Acronia» 4/2024

Decolonizing the History of Anarchism and Radical Movements

Deadline for submission of the abstract (not more than 1000-1500 words and a short bio of the author): February 15th, 2021. mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.ph...

Intrigued by the libertarianism results...

Which ideologies do Britons have a favourable view of?

Environmentalism: 64% favourable
Feminism: 56%
Liberalism: 41%
Socialism: 38%
Conservatism: 32%
Capitalism: 30%
Nationalism: 29%
Libertarianism: 24%
Populism: 13%
Communism: 10%
Anarchism: 8%
Fascism: 2%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Radical Histories - Part I Join the conversation

And Part I: go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV