Jono Jackson

Top Links 702 Corporate profits at record highs. The Autumn of the White Patriarch. The African King at Edward VII’s Coronation. Ruy Lopez variations. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

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08.04.2025 14:20 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Honoured and grateful to have my piece on Lewanika featured in Adam Tooze’s Chartbook Newsletter.

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08.04.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The African King at Edward VII’s Coronation

King Lewanika’s invitation to the coronation of #EdwardVII was intended to stabilise relations with the Barotse nation. Instead, it exposed the cracks in the #BritishEmpire.

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28.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I did a book.

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18.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to discussing Global Diplomatic History through the visit of King Lewanika of Barotseland to Britain in 1902 and a case study of African royal diplomacy in practice.

Online and at the History Faculty, Oxford. 2pm on 12 Feb.

10.02.2025 10:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Published 11 March 2025!

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23.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really looking forward to this hybrid event next week in Oxford at the African Studies Centre with some excellent papers from highly esteemed speakers!

Wednesday 29 January, 14:00 – 17:30

13 Bevington Road, OX2 or online.

See you there!

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22.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0