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Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–60, by Stacey Hynd Stacey Hynd has written a timely and insightful book that focuses on the British use of the death penalty as an institutionalised form of penal punishment

Opolot Okia reviews 'Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–60', by Stacey Hynd

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"Given the scope and richness of its coverage, Clay’s survey will remain a 'go-to book' for scholars of beekeeping in Russian and Soviet history for many years to come." The Russian Review

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The Secret Life of the Hotel by @ladyburglar.bsky.social reveals how Britain’s hotels changed the nature of sex, crime and civil rights, told through the voices of staff and guest.

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Victorian teetotalers, life insurance & health: Dr @jameskneale.bsky.social’s Temperance Lives shows how insurers shaped drinking habits 🏛️💼🍷.

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"McPhee's encyclopedic knowledge of France shines through the text, with vibrant details and entertaining anecdotes from the country's mountains to its plains to its seaside." American Historical Review

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📰 Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War America by Henry H. Prown explores how the Daily Worker shaped U.S. Bolshevism during the Great Depression under Soviet influence.

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"This invaluable act of historiographical transfer reshapes our understanding of far-right dynamics beyond the seemingly sharp caesura of 1989, offering new perspectives". American Historical Review

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A pile of hardback copies of my book Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918. The cover shows the second office of the UK Temperance & General Provident Institution at the City end of London Bridge, with the Thames behind it.

...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here:
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I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February...

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Temperance Lives This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918.James Kneal…

Edward Vivian is one of the lives featured in Temperance Lives, alongside thirteen other teetotalers, three drinkers, a group of towns, a bundle of insurance documents, and some buildings.
Ebook and (from the 11th December) hardback available here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc... 4/4

A page from from my book Temperance Lives, dominated by A. B. Hulme's portrait of Edward Vivan, showing him in later life, bald and bearded, sitting in a chair next to what look like red roses climbing up the doorway or arch behind him.

Another image from Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918, a colour (in the ebook) portrait of Edward Vivian, Torquay gentleman, banker, newspaper editor, balloonist, meteorologist; he explored Kent’s Cavern with Pengelly & Lyell... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 1/4

"[Mahaney's] book offers an audacious and original snapshot of feminism during the Spanish Transition, relating it, as its title indicates, with broader political processes."
American Historical Review

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🎭 Imperial Entertainers by Yu Jung Lee reveals how Korean women performers shaped identity and diplomacy across East Asia from WWII to the Cold War.

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Christopher Hemmig’s Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (4th ed.) offers a comprehensive guide to one of West Africa’s most complex nations.

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Southeast Asia in China by Ying-kit Chan & Chang-Yau Hoon, explores how Southeast Asian communities and ideas have historically and contemporarily shaped China, challenging the dominant narrative of China as the sole influencer in regional relations
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Banner for a book titled 'The Secret Life of the Hotel' by Eloise Moss. Coming in January 2026, published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Coming soon 🏨🛎️🔍

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels?

Explore a darker modern history of murder, swindles and scandals in The Secret Life of the Hotel by @ladyburglar.bsky.social.

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Regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw has redefined the way we look at this period of modern European history. The Nazi Dictatorship - 40th Anniversary Edition is out https://bit.ly/4n5Whi4
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Kathryn L. Mahaney's Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain examines how Spanish feminists reshaped democracy by turning to Europe when their own country wouldn’t listen.

Out now in paperback 👉 https://bit.ly/479Mx06

Now in paperback: Children’s Emotions in Europe, 150-1900 by Jeroen J. H. Dekker, is an exploration of the expression and regulation of childhood’s emotions in Europe from 1500 to 1900 through the eyes of famous and lesser-known artists.
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Warren Treadgold’s A Concise History of Byzantium returns in a 25th Anniversary Edition in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, with a new preface from the author.

‘No other book on Byzantium manages to pack so much useful information into so few pages.' https://bit.ly/48vtVdt

I’m so happy that it’s publication day for my monograph! As I’m on leave atm, there’s no book launch (yet…) but I’m celebrating with my little mascot who says it’s almost as good as their favourite Peekaboo Moon, which is towering praise from this fairly fierce book critic.

📖 @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social A Salon-in-Exile shows how Hortense Mancini’s 17th-century London salon became a hub for French exiles, turning the traditional French salon into a pan-European space of intellectual, literary & cultural exchange.

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📚 40 years since this classic work on Nazi Germany came out 🗃️ @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

#NaziGermany #IanKershaw #skystorians #academicsky

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"[Van der Putten] gives readers a clear, thought-provoking account of how a once-weak empire became a global power...Informs & provokes... For anyone looking for a broad, readable history of China's modern transformation". Indian Public Policy Review

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We hope you haven't missed that our holiday sale is live! 🎄🎁

Celebrate the season with exclusive deals on academic books across the store until midnight, December 7th.

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"This is an impressive first book exploring the history of human specimens in Australian medical and cultural history. It presents extensive research".
Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Book Prize

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Q&A with Elizabeth Goodenough and Marilynn S. Olson Goodenough     Elizabeth Goodenough and Marilynn S. Olson are the editors of the book What the Presidents Read: Childho...

Elizabeth Goodenough and Marilynn S. Olson, editors of What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites, discuss their inspiration for the book, what they hope readers will take away and more 👉 deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/q-wi...

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"In this stimulating monograph, John Morris explores the intersections between music and politics in 1930s Britain … It is packed with rich and colorful details and anecdotes." H-Net Reviews

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"An illuminating study of late colonial Mozambique … Araújo acknowledges that her narrative is shaped by FRELIMO's silence and the gaps in the archival records about Salazar, Caetano, and the various Portuguese security forces active in the north."
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Happy three month bookaversary!

"Falina should be praised for unlocking some of the key understudied aspects of Yugoslav history that have had long-lasting and wide-reaching consequences."
Slavonic & East European Review

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