Clive Webb

Walking in West Sussex

I discuss what would have happened had the USA not entered the First World War and also the Allied offensive in North Africa during the Second World War in the new issue of History of War magazine.

SWORN ENEMIES TO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP REVOLUTION 250 Dr Sam Edwards’ timeline explores the ups and...

My latest here for Britain at War Magazine on 250 years of US-UK relations. Read it here (behind a paywall) or get a copy of the magazine at your local newsagent: www.keymilitary.com/article/swor...

I discuss what would have happened had the USA not entered the First World War and also the Allied offensive in North Africa during the Second World War in the new issue of History of War magazine.

Thank you very much, Matthew. Hope the coffee was good!

Vietdamned - Profile Books

My book, Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial, is in shops from today:
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...

On Giles Brown's Let's Talk - from 10.00CET - Stephen Jakobi with 'The Baby Farm Murderer: The Story of Amelia Dyer, the Victorian Serial Killer', and @clivewebb.bsky.social on 'Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial'

The Kennedy Curse A Wartime Tragedy in the Skies of Suffolk

My new Substack is out. A run through a bit of American history in the English countryside: runninghistorian.substack.com/p/the-kenned...

Picked myself up a copy of this today by @clivewebb.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck in!

Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820: From the Night Watch to Proactive Policing

Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

I am and you’re welcome. So sorry but hope it’s a smooth journey home.

The new issue of Shindig is out now!

I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.

British TV history: everything you wanted to know Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 26/01/2025 · 52m

Where I talk about ‘everything you wanted to know’ about British television history.

(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)

On @historyextra.bsky.social

Vietdamned - Profile Books

My book, Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial, is in shops from today:
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...

TSA 2025 — Transatlantic Studies Association TSA 2025

Excited to say that the details for this year's Transatlantic Studies Association conference are now confirmed. We're meeting in the beautiful city of Lisbon, over 14-16 July. Full details (inc. the cfp) available here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/tsa-2025

Joe Biden was right to pardon Marcus Garvey In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of working-c...

At last! Marcus Garvey is pardoned. My take in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on removing the stigma from Marcus Garvey's name. I hoped Obama would have done so but he bottled it. This week Joe Biden did the right thing!

www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...

Manchester University Press - Terror and terroir Terror and terroir - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Terror and terroir by Andrew W. M. Smith

My first book - Terror and terroir: the winegrowers of the Languedoc & modern France - is about what happens when a region of monoculture goes through an economic transition, & the intersections of regional, national, & European identities & structures

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/

The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.

The Knott A Run with a View

My latest Substack is now out. All about one of my favourite hill runs up near the Lancashire/Cumbria border. You can read it (free!) here: #running open.substack.com/pub/runningh...

The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.

Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips review – Windrush struggles This elegaic novel tracks a West Indian man’s life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection

Latest from me on @carylphillips.bsky.social powerful new novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

British Internment and the Internment of Britons This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the c…

Exciting times for scholars of #WW2 #internment British Internment & the Internment of Britons is now out in paperback! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Get yourself a copy at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-i...
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social

Vietdamned - Profile Books

I have a new book out on 6th February with Profile Books that tells the story of how Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals tried to hold the US government to account for war crimes in Vietnam.
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...

Pick up a multi-award-winning book if you are out Christmas shopping this weekend.

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs Five time socialist presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs picked by Reginald D Hunter.

I am one of the guests discussing American socialist leader Eugene Debs on Radio 4 at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights

New article co-written with Tom Davies in this month’s History Today.
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist....

Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights

New article co-written with Tom Davies in this month’s History Today.
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist....

The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History This article addresses the field of British political history's blind spot when it comes to race. Where modern British political historians are comfortable approaching politics in ‘high’ and ‘popular...

... racially minoritised people targeted by their politics as I explored briefly in a piece for the Political Quarterly. I'm also currently investigating the relationship between "extreme" & institutional racism in the context of the UK prison system c.1970s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’

The book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ on a bookstore shelf with lots of other Star Wars books.

The book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ on a bookstore shelf with lots of other books

The book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ on a bookstore shelf with lots of other books

I forgot to share on here because I’m bad at my job but ‘Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ was officially published in the UK on Thursday and is due out in the US on 9th June

You can find out more here: geni.us/SWRiseFallGa...

Barack Obama Barack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history. His articles, books, and speeches are replete…

If you're interested in a US President with a brain and a sense of decency, I wrote about one. Specifically Barack Obama's ideas about American history. See bloomsbury.com/uk/barack-ob...
(UK) or bloomsbury.com/us/barack-ob...
(US)