James Fisher
@JamDanFish
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My book 'The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power & Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800' is now out in PAPERBACK at a more affordable priceš You can get 20% discount using code HIST2124 from https://t.co/GZdhDz4jkt
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You can read my review of Steve Hindle's 'Social Topography of a Rural Community' (2022), which reconstructs a late C17th village in unprecedented detail. Free eprint here: https://t.co/qzPrv4SfmG
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Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2025)
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1/5 A groundbreaking @amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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I will actually start posting on bsky soon, which is genuinely looking promising
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Palestinian lives are an inconvenient truth for this miserable government. We donāt matter. Only Israeli security matters and only Israel has the right to self-defence - such is the inequality built into the current world order.
"We stand with Israel, and recognise her right to self defence in the face of this aggression." UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is addressing the British public after Iran launched missiles towards Israel. https://t.co/dbbaci2jmM šŗ Sky 501
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About an hour after delivering speech at UN that started with āIsrael seeks peace, it yearns for peaceā¦ā Israel launches one of largest attacks on southern Beirut suburb
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I'm now old enough to have lived in a period subject to fascistic nostalgia and it's more absurd than I could have imagined
The Oasis tour isnāt just about their music. Itās about the height of Britain. Itās about the nostalgia of remembering how amazing Britain was. If you didnāt live it youāll never understand it and it canāt be explained. A time when you could go down the pub, interact with
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Why Keir Starmer has got it wrong and will not stop the boats š Smugglers are not the cause of immigration.
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Jeff Buckley's Grace turns 30 today If all he ever gave us was āHallelujah,ā Buckley would still be hailed as tremendously influentialābut thereās so much more to Grace. See where it falls on our list of the best albums of the 1990s. š: https://t.co/ymcvmNKeCb
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Allegations of widespread torture and sexual abuse have been reported by Palestinian detainees - held by Israeli forces. The Israeli army and prison service deny abuse systematic and say wrongdoing is being investigated. Watch part one of two. 1/3
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Itās release day for READING PRACTICE! Iām so proud of this book & so grateful to all who helped along the way to its publication. FWIW, the paperback price is very reasonableājust one of many reasons Iām so glad to have published with @UChicagoPress. https://t.co/P53F2IGkQx
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Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Ā Reading...
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Remember those words scrawled on the wall ā "FUCK PAKIS" ā whenever a pundit or a journalist tries to make out that this is all a misguided expression of legitimate concerns about immigration.
Aftermath of violence in Tamworth shows how a mob smashed their way into a hotel used by asylum seekers, tried to set fire to it with them and staff inside. Petrol bombs, fireworks, bricks and other missiles were thrown at police. The building is covered in racist graffiti. @GMB
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Postdoc opportunities at Bham (but a tight deadline of 23 August). Feel free to contact me or my History colleagues ...
Apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the College of Arts and Law! Complete research and build your profile in arts, humanities, and social sciences. Apply by 23 Aug 2024. Details: https://t.co/bc61q2TUK9
#Research #Postdoc #Academia #UoBArtsLaw
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What do History students think of GenAI? During 2023-24 @NevilleMorley has surveyed students @exeterclio on their understanding and attitudes to AI for reading and research. His finding are now available on the RHS blog https://t.co/hjEBPuwybx
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Some of us rage about this happening day after day for 9 months because we see people who look like this, sound like this, dress like this as human. Itās an inescapable realization that others around us, simply do not. Every day a brutal lesson about race.
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šš®šŗš²š š. š¦š°š¼šš passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.š
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Last week I talked to @NewBooksNetwork about how the rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain C16-18th was based on the appropriation of the customary knowledge possessed by common farmers and farm workers Available to listen on your fave podcast app etc
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My book 'The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power & Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800' is now out in PAPERBACK at a more affordable priceš You can get 20% discount using code HIST2124 from https://t.co/GZdhDz4jkt
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