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New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture. Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords. Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
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20.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Edward Gibbon’s 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' was published 250 years ago. Its arguments remain as pertinent as ever.
Edward Gibbon’s empire | Sumantra Maitra
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Suez at 70.
The standard morality tale blames Eden’s deception. But the deeper lesson is about alliance asymmetry: Britain discovered it couldn’t rely on the “Special Relationship” to simulate being a great power.
My new essay for
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Nietzsche believed in slow reading: attentive, effortful, and transformative. This was the essence of his philosophy of reading against the rush of modern life. @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
29.01.2026 10:55 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A wonderfully productive day researching in the Wentworth Woodhouse archives, thanks to the remarkable staff and volunteers.
17.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can’t wait to start reading this !
12.01.2026 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Researching and writing my next article in the library of the Oxford and Cambridge Club. What a privilege.
11.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 17th-century German physician in Nagasaki noticed something familiar: Japan’s shogun-emperor dyarchy mirrored the pope-emperor relationship he knew from home.
My new essay for Engelsberg Ideas traces how different civilisations solved the same constitutional puzzles.
New Year’s gift: a first edition of Albemarle’s two-volume Memoirs of Ld Rockingham & his contemporaries. I can’t wait to get stuck into it.
02.01.2026 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A familiar affliction: study the eighteenth century long enough and people like Newcastle cease to be historical actors and become personalities, as Sir Lewis Namier observes here. You gossip about them, laugh at them, and, inconveniently, grow fond of them.
29.12.2025 18:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Young man dressed in a striped coat and waistcoat. Apple-green breeches. Vertically striped stockings. Accessories: hat, walking stick, breloque, shoes with decorated buckles. Woman dressed in a white redingote and apple-green petticoat with white silk fringe. On her head a cornet a la Paysanne, on top of which a 'chapeau au bateau renversé'. Fan in hand. This print is part of the 19th Cahier, 3rd year, from the series "Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises." The series consists of 172 fashion prints, published by Buisson, Paris, 20 November 1786 - 21 December 1789. Rijksmuseum. Object number P-P-2009-1668A
Fashion plate from 1788 showing a man dressed in a green, yellow and crimson striped coat, moiré waistcoat with wide stripes, apple green breeches and striped stockings. Woman dressed in a redingote of white Pékin with green Pékin petticoat, hat 'au bateau renversé' #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory
26.12.2025 19:29 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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But mainly posting on eighteenth-century British political, imperial, and intellectual history, Edmund Burke, Whig political culture, and classical reception.
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Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2025.
Books of the Year 2025 | Engelsberg Ideas
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A political lesson from Lord Rockingham | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social
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We rounded off the reporting period by welcoming a guest blog from @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social examining the importance horse-racing played, in particular at Ascot and Newmarket, in forging the first administration of the marquess of Rockingham...
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Painting of Edmund Burke National Portrait Gallery. NPG 655. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdmundBurke1771.jpg
In our latest issue, @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social takes a novel look at Edmund Burke's opposition to parliamentary reform, in terms of partisanship and the interplay between domestic and imperial politics.
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New on the Georgian Lords by @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social: how horse racing shaped the Rockingham administration...
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