Very excited to share that my book "Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830" has been accepted and will be coming out in Cambridge University Press's Eighteenth-Century Elements series.

#ECHR When you hear a politician denouncing the ECHR you can be sure it's YOUR rights they are aiming at.

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UK immigration: why public opinion is at odds with reality https://t.co/38dybdgWXs via @ft

@DavidGHFrost @FT The unelected bureaucrat offers his opinion. He can, however be flexible in his beliefs, dependant on what’s in it for him. Sit down, you and others in the Tory party have done more than enough damage.

Very disappointing that in closing down MPs' 2nd jobs, Starmer isn't banning the hosting of TV & radio shows Lines should be clear. Elected representatives represent, broadcasters and journalists interrogate, inform and hold those in office to account Media bosses should not be

#DavidHume #CrueltyInWar #TreatiseOfHumanNature Andrew Lincoln, 'Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1829' (CUP)

#AdamSmith #InstrumentsOfWar #TheoryOfMoralSentiments Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1820 (Cambridge University Press)

#LunaticWokeVirus I wonder what Braverman would make of the sermon on the mount? It doesn't sound as if she's heard of it.

This book is being launched today at the @long18thsem! Edited by @alicemarples @RuthMLarsen and myself, it will shortly be out in hard copy and OA with @UoLPress. If you'd like to come along online or in person, sign up here: https://t.co/Ivu7gEfTzS

Trump in 2016: “She shouldn’t be allowed to run...If she wins, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and, ultimately, a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt.”

If calm, measured and respectful people like Andy Street were the face of the Tory party, rather than the dividers and haters like Susan Hall, Jonathan Gullis and Suella Braverman they wouldn’t be in the mess they are now.

#War #AdamSmith How did Adam Smith try to make his 'impartial spectator' relevant to the war-zone? And why did he eventually change his mind about its relevance?

#War #defeat #hero How did Colonel James Gardiner, abandoned by his own men, and killed in the ignominious defeat of the British army by Jacobites at Prestonpans, become a celebrated military hero in eighteenth-century Britain?

#Gibraltar How did this piece of the Spanish mainland, captured on behalf of an Austrian contender for the Spanish throne, become a symbol of British liberty and independence?

#Gibraltar How did this piece of the Spanish mainland, captured on behalf of an Austrian contender for the Spanish throne, become a symbol of British liberty and independence?

#Peace #Empire How did the first organized peace movements in Britain relate to the expansion of empire? Andrew Lincoln, 'Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1820' (Cambridge U.P).

Is it fair to criticise Keir Starmer for representing terrorists? Ten things you should know.

#DanielDefoe #HenryFielding #SamuelRichardson #LaurenceSterne #SamuelJacksonPratt #CharlotteSmith #JaneAusten How did novelists in eighteenth-century Britain respond to the challenge of war? Andrew Lincoln, 'Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1820', CUP