@jrhentschke.bsky.social
X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
Benjamin Nathans
Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won the @aseees.bsky.social Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, honoring the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, & East European studies in the humanities and social sciences!
Explore here: hubs.ly/Q03LzMJ
When I order documents from various #c18th investigative commissions at the archives, I most often receive a modest assortment of protocols, petitions, and numerous letters. But occasionally, I get something like this. It’s only about 2300 pages (RA 236 F4-17).
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📣New HJ blog!
Joel Herman (@joelherman.bsky.social) explores how news both connected and divided people across the eighteenth-century British Empire📰
#History #Newspapers #Journalism #PublicSphere 18thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
@robdale.bsky.social interesting for colleagues, Rob?
01.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
25.09.2025 10:41 — 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1Congrats!!
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Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
18.09.2025 20:35 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Big day. Stepping down as Deputy Head of School after 13 years and as Director for Postgraduate Research after 10 years and looking forward to research leave. It has been a pleasure to work with colleagues and our community of UK/international students during an eventful, at times difficult decade.
28.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is the UK pub date for my book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalebooks.bsky.social)!
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Today is publication day for my new book,The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, a fresh and deeply researched history of global politics at mid-century. Get your copy now!
26.08.2025 12:03 — 👍 46 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1Horrible news, but symptomatic of the contempt for the Humanities.
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Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading
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They have arrived!
@lindaaburnett.bsky.social
@yalebooks.bsky.social
@18thcenturycam.bsky.social
@long18thsem.bsky.social
#Enlightenment
#18thCentury
#HistoryOfRace
#ColonialHistory
#Colonialism
Cover of Modern Peru: A New History edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara. The design features a bold orange background with large text in white and yellow. In the center is a halftone-style image in burnt orange showing groups of people gathered along a road, with soldiers or police standing in the foreground and crowds in the background. A multicolored border in blue, green, and orange surrounds the image, giving the cover a layered, graphic look.
"Modern Peru," edited by @paulodrinot.bsky.social & Alberto Vergara, offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/dOSbIpS #History #Peru
22.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Save 30% on #NewBook "After Caliban" by Erica James, which examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. buff.ly/YJkZzd9
22.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Wonderful path in the NE!
18.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the age of social media, it should be possible to connect the two childhood friends who must now be in her 40s. Do RT widely. The museum now also includes stories and belongings of Ukrainian children.
08.08.2025 22:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just visited the unique and moving War Children Museum in Sarajevo, which records the memory of kids who lived through the siege of the city. Leyla, then 11, has failed to get in touch with her friend Astrid, living, in 1994, at 3 Warren Hall Court, Broughton Chester CH4 0SD...
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The cover of Black Disability Politics by Sam Schalk
The cover of Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
The cover of Health Equity in Brazil by Kia Lilly Caldwell
The cover of Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
It’s Juneteenth so this is a reminder to read books from members of the Black/African Disapora, from fiction (like the Legendborn series), historical and beyond.
Here are a few recs that I highlighted in Feb.
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See you tomorrow 👋🏾
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