Karl Ittmann

Regime change from the air has never worked and is unlikely to work in Iran. If that's the basis for the war it has already probably failed

Iran, while authoritarian, is not a strongman dictatorship. It has an elected parliament that is not a duma; it has an elected president; the clerical leader is elected by a specialized body. Decapitation is unlikely to bring it down

Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms we are attuned to the pressures to restrict and repress speech related to, for example, Israel, Palestine, US policy in the Middle East

Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

Marty Peretz attacked me as an intellectual lightweight and regretted that PBS interviewed me

Photograph of documents relating to women's suffrage, the First World War, and the Second World War. They include a Women's Social and Political Union letter, a photograph of munitions workers, and pamphlets on 'The position of women after the war', 'Women's freedom' and equal political rights.

We've been enjoying looking at the range of archives being used by students for their research

Themed searches of our catalogue can be a quick shortcut to find sources on popular subjects - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Questions of Race and Repair The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

How might the wrongs of slavery be properly acknowledged, and redressed in Britain? What could each of us do?

Catherine Hall considers both historical and contemporary questions of race and repair.

It’s publication week for Tales of Health, a book that brings a medical humanities framework to the Romantic genre of the National Tale and its questions of health and citizenship.

History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’
with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela
18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season.

Find more information at the link below!
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Martyrdom, Misrepresentation and the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Why has commemoration tended to deprive the Tolpuddle martyrs of their political acumen and capable militancy? To coincide with the annual Tolpuddle Martyr's Festival, Tom Scriven explores omissions from the 'martyrdom narrative' of the six…

OTD in 1834, six farm workers from Tolpuddle were arrested for forming a union. The story became a founding myth of the labour movement, but it often ignores the radical world in which they lived.

In this article from the archive, Tom Scriven revisits the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

The Seeds of Scotland’s Highland Clearances In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands began to exert greater control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. Cat Scothorne shows how these 'reforms' actually disrupted resilient ecological practices.

'Scotland’s reform-minded landlords, styling themselves as improvers, sought to reshape Highland society by controlling what their tenants planted and how they kept and processed it.'

Cat Scothorne on the tensions between capitalism and local ecological knowledge.

The gap between suspected AI essays and in class writing is a good place to start.

American Independence as a Supply Chain Crisis: The Case of Nova Scotia 1783-94 This post is a part of the 2025 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions. By …

Fun paper.
All major geopolitical events are, on one level, a supply chain crisis.

ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...

Born 23 Feb 1944, Johnny Winter was a US singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances and slide guitar playing. He also produced 3 Grammy Award–winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. #JohnnyWinter

The Arthur Scargill Archive Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.

The Arthur Scargill Archive. An essential resource for the study of the British labour movement. A collection of national significance including correspondence, subject files, transcripts of speeches, photographs & audio/visual material: sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

Catching up on this - so riveting!!

Excellent read

YouTube video by North American Conference on British Studies Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann

Recording of a discussion of my book Fueling Empire from yesterday.@thenacbs.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZX4...

YouTube video by North American Conference on British Studies Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann

Recording of a discussion of my book Fueling Empire from yesterday.@thenacbs.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZX4...

First heard about it as Susan Collins being a yes vote. Assume she will back down if the filibuster is removed.

National Union of Mineworkers' poster: NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS THE COAL BOARDS SCHEME WOULD RESULT IN MORE BLOOD ON BRITAIN’S COAL IT WOULD MEAN MORE DEATHS MORE SERIOUS INJURIES MORE PNEUMOCONIOSIS SUPPORT YOUR UNION VOTE NO TO THE COAL BOARDS SCHEME

Leaflet for the Draeger Self-Rescue Apparatus, sold by Richard Jacobson, London. It includes an image of a man demonstrating the mine safety equipment.

Front cover of 1985 National Coal Board pamphlet 'Down a modern coal mine', including images of mining technology and miners.

Front cover of programme for National Colliery Music Festival, held on 1 May 1948. It includes an image of a statue of a miner, with a silhouette of colliery buildings in the background.

Industrial health and welfare

The first documents in our new digitised collection are online!

It includes sources from the National Union of Mineworkers' archive relating to workplace dangers and campaigns to improve safety & welfare at work. More to come...

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1. Pointing out that the Iranian regime's actions are horrific does not in any way subtract from the horror of the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza, or from other atrocities. There are, unfortunately, plenty here who seem to believe we should be partisan in our denunciations. They are wrong. 🧵

As Paul Krugman and others have argued, actually tariffs differ wildly from announced levels. Seems like politic theater.

Norman L. Jones (1951-2026): A Remembrance "As a final word, it’s hard to think of anyone who wore his brilliance with such modesty, grace, and generosity, and who put so many others before himself."

Norman L. Jones, an accomplished historian of Tudor history, has passed away. In this remembrance, Robert Tittler and @susancogan.bsky.social reflect on his scholarship, life, and legacy.

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UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...

Now that Faculty Council has been dissolved and our administrators from the Dean level up have been replaced by political appointees, a free press is the only place UT Austin faculty have to speak up.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...

It only takes a minute -- "hey, my students really loved your book!" hit send -- but it makes all the difference in the world.

The cost of genocide: Israel’s war on Gaza by the numbers Billions of dollars have been spent, directly and indirectly, by Israel since starting its military operations in Gaza in October 2023.

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The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India

Join us next Tuesday, at the IHR, London or on Zoom for 'The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India'. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians

Exclusive: Dark Horse partners with Terry Moore for new imprint Dark Horse and Terry Moore have partnered for a new imprint to repackage and reprint all of his work, starting with Strangers in Paradise.

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