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The Imperial & Global Forum, Centre for Imperial & Global #History @ExeterClio. Blogging about all things imperial & global, past and present. @MWPalen, Editor
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Anytown Joins Lobby For Fairer Deal For World’s Poor”: Mass Lobbies Against World Poverty in Thatcher’s Britain https://t.co/gRp6KtJ2a0
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Richard ToyeUniversity of Exeter This post is based on a paper delivered at the recent CIGH workshop on ‘New Approaches to Imperial and Post-Imperial Politics’. The origins of this post lie in some…
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The 1981 & 1985 mass lobbies represent a pragmatic & arguably effective effort by #NGOs, churches, & concerned citizens to challenge the government’s #neoliberal agenda. Just how effective were these efforts? https://t.co/aUC4AfmjDX with @ExeterCIGH. #Twitterstorians #History
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Richard ToyeUniversity of Exeter This post is based on a paper delivered at the recent CIGH workshop on ‘New Approaches to Imperial and Post-Imperial Politics’. The origins of this post lie in some…
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News! I am delighted to have been promoted to Book Reviews Editor @Global_IH. I will commission, co-ordinate, & edit reviews, review articles, book forum special issues, & more. If you are interested in reviewing a title, do contact me at my GIH email: https://t.co/sMDc9yRCxO
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The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today! Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
RJISSF Roundtable 16-11: Jonathan Hunt’s The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam “Hunt also explores the way in which the changed international climate in the era of decolonization provided openings and opportunities for smaller
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“possibly the best single-volume history on the subject.” 🥳👇👇
The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today! Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
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Professor @RichardToye from @exeterclio appears in this new documentary about #Churchill, showing on @netflix next month https://t.co/BiKFAktEwN
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1/5 @RobertJenrick's argument that descendants of the enslaved and colonised should be grateful is a work of breathtaking doublethink. https://t.co/IzseE1DJGk
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After 48 hours of pressure to 'start a conversation' on paying reparations to Commonwealth countries for the slave trade, he U-turned on his position and capitulated.
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I was delighted to be interviewed as part of this upcoming 'Churchill At War' documentary for Netflix. All four parts of Churchill at War premiere on Netflix on December 4 and you can view the trailer at https://t.co/y5R6QDzKrz.
#Churchill #NetflixDoc #WinstonChurchill
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Anytown Joins Lobby For Fairer Deal For World’s Poor”: Mass Lobbies Against World Poverty in Thatcher’s Britain https://t.co/gRp6KtJ2a0
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Richard ToyeUniversity of Exeter This post is based on a paper delivered at the recent CIGH workshop on ‘New Approaches to Imperial and Post-Imperial Politics’. The origins of this post lie in some…
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#GlobalHistory #Twitterstorians I’m delighted to officially announce - with my co-editor @CianTMcMahon - the publication of a double SPECIAL ISSUE of @JournlAmEthHist: 🌎’Globalizing Irish America’🌍 This issue consists of 2 conceptual themes #GlobalNetworks #GlobalCities
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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History https://t.co/mkSh4sGiHm via @ExeterCIGH
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Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832. Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exet…
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From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. https://t.co/mkSh4sGiHm with @ExeterCIGH. #Imperialism #ImperialHistory #BritishHistory #Empire
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Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832. Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exet…
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From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. https://t.co/fGg07Ae58a
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Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832. Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exet…
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I am a historian based in London and am available for freelance research work. If there are any documents you would like to consult in London archives but unable to visit, I am happy to photograph or transcribe them. Please contact me if you’re looking for a research assistant
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Very happy to have recorded this podcast with @mattpdawson for @newbooksnetwork. We talk about my book Making the Revolution Global, discussing Black radicals like George Padmore and C.L.R. James and their relationship with the British socialist movement https://t.co/9clh3Vw7M8
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New free online course: Masterclass PhD application. After this short course you should be able to: https://t.co/rBJION8ehF.
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What you are trying to avoid is a situation where the person reading the chapter gets to the end, reads your conclusion, and thinks, “Oh, so that’s what they were trying to tell me! Why didn’t they mention it earlier?” 👉 https://t.co/WpNaLjBiTy.
#PHD #PHDChat #PHDLife
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We are not going to worry for the moment about style. We are just going to specify which elements are needed in a conclusion and go through some quite mechanical formulations for expressing them.
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From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. https://t.co/fGg07Ae58a
imperialglobalexeter.com
Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832. Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exet…
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The deployment of 10,000 North Korean troops to Russia is an embarrassing comedown for Moscow, bad news for Ukraine, and a very scary development for South Korea and the rest of the world, FP’s @KFJ_FP writes.
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Questions abound about the combat quality of Pyongyang’s troops, but they could bail out Moscow and end up alarming Seoul.
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