#Xodus. See you where the sky is blue. 🦋

Happy Diwali! 🪔🌼🌸✨

The first Franco-Algerian war, starting in 1830, with its razzias and enfumades, and the resistance of the extraordinary Abd el Kader: #frenchpodcast with Alain Ruscio.

A podcast giving an overview of the Scramble for Africa, leading up to and following the 1884-5 meeting of European 'great powers' to divvy up the continent between them, with no Africans present or consulted.

In the early 19thC ragpickers collected discarded cloth (to make paper) and bones (to filter and whiten sugar) from the abandoned refuse of Paris. #frenchpodcast with Antoine Compagnon

Black History Month dinner in hall

Views from my office windows.

Hello ⁦@BadlyParkedOx⁩ this van isn’t actually parked - it drove rather fast the wrong way along Little Clarendon street and then got stuck temporarily. 🙄

Larry for Chancellor of the University of Oxford?

My article on Flaubert and kitsch has come out in @NewLitHist https://t.co/cVY9qlpoqq so I'm allowing myself a moment of nostalgia for the maddest (but also tastiest) research project of my career: Making Madame Bovary's Wedding Cake. With thanks to @TORCHOxford.

#Frenchpodcast on the chevalier/e d’Éon, brilliant 18thC spy, diplomat, military officer and sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, according to the unambiguous clothing of the times.

Delighted to have published this article on Flaubert and kitsch in @NewLitHist and I can warmly recommend their publication process and editorial team!

Interesting podcast on charisma, and how it’s easier to have it if you’re tall, male and aristocratic. Just in case we needed reminding.

Why did no one tell me about Viking sorceresses when I was a child? My whole career trajectory might have been different. Great podcast.

Ever wondered why the Scots played such an important part in the British empire? This is much clearer to me after listening to these two great @EmpirePodUK podcasts.

On inheritocracy. A podcast. Something to think about as I pay my sons their monthly allowance for university study…

Oh no, so sad - one of the living legends of British acting.

I have only now seen that Fredric Jameson has just died. One of the rare thinkers with whom I have often felt that I was having an ongoing conversation. Always historicise! Vale Jameson.

Following a short trip to Berlin I listened to this great counter-factual podcast. Could German reunification have been handled differently - perhaps less as a 'fall' and more as a process of harmonisation? Did it happen the way it did because of a bureaucratic error?

From fashion photographer to surrealism and then war photographer documenting Dachau: Lee Miller in this ⁦@TheRestHistory⁩ pod. I want to see the film with Kate Winslett now!