Josephine Quinn

‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature

If it was four MPs and six factions I’d be impressed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apparently the number of houses a person can have before admitting that they're not actually hard-done by is n+1: buried near the end of this piece, we discover our fearful 1930s house-owner owns *another* house as well from which they receive a rental income.

🏺🧪

Ancient wolves on remote Baltic Sea island reveal link to prehistoric humans Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans.

Another example of what we call "hunter- gatherers" being much more: rather landscape and #biodiversity managers

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Doggos, delineated

This is great fun.

(Nigel Biggar does not come out of it especially well.)

Paroles d'histoire - 408. L'Antiquité au pluriel, avec Josephine Quinn (en anglais) Listen to Paroles d'histoire - 408. L'Antiquité au pluriel, avec Josephine Quinn (en anglais) by Paroles d'histoire on Podcast Addict. L’invitée : Josephine Quinn, professeure d’histoire antique...

Listening to @andreloez.bsky.social @josephinequinn.bsky.social [Paroles d'histoire] 408. L'Antiquité au pluriel, avec Josephine Quinn (en anglais) #parolesDhistoire
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No apology required, only thanks!

En français aussi! www.seuil.com/ouvrage/et-l...

On the train south, looking forward to talking about the World and the West at Southampton and catching up with @cazemiera.bsky.social

New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature

If we're to have forest towns between Oxford & Cambridge we should also have tapir, who are forest animals.

Official advice on keeping tapir in N. Ireland is here--I don't think there is yet a similar leaflet for England, let alone the Oxford-Cambridge corridor:
www.daera-ni.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn: 9780593729809 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global....

Now available in the US for all your weekend paperback needs...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736806...

I am excited about this

The amazing Paul Kosmin will deliver the Corbett Lecture at the Cambridge Classics Faculty on November 13 at 5pm on "The Rain of Kings". Reception to follow: all very welcome!
www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/spe...

Thanks
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
for the brilliant book that helped inform this: How the World Made the West. If you haven't read it, now's a great time to prepare your arguments against #CivilisationalThinking
Full speech here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...

Thanks very much - though I half-wish this topic hadn’t become so timely!

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘Alongside 44 historical buildings and seven archaeological sites, all three depositories of historical and archaeological material in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

November 6, 2025 Issue Table of Contents

Our 11/6 issue is now online, with Ben Lerner on the heart, Mark Lilla on MAGA nation, Cora Currier on the “war on terror,” @josephinequinn.bsky.social on St. Augustine, Nitin Ahuja on the science of death, Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin’s loves, and much more.

That’s another chapter in the bag!

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thankyou!

How the World Made the West: A 4000-year History is a Kindle Daily Deal today - only! - for £2.99. Mixed feelings obvs, but that's less than 10p a century... www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Ma...

So glad to see this x

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

Habsburgs in space!

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s easy to dismiss the idea of Greek and Roman roots to the modern west as old-fashioned, and you certainly won’t find it in serious modern scholarship, or even in standard textbooks. But it’s still around, it’s getting more popular, and it’s part of a bigger problem. Civilizational thinking in beds, an assumption of enduring and meaningful difference between human societies that does real damage. People die at the hands of zealots for a white West, while different attitudes expressed in some European countries to refugees fleeing wars in Syria, and Ukraine demonstrate the power of civilizational exceptionalism to erase human suffering.

Thanks to @empirepoduk.bsky.social for introducing me to How the World Made the West (2024) by @josephinequinn.bsky.social. It’s the perfect book for this moment.

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...