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Robert Peckham

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Writer and historian. FRHistS. Author of ‘FEAR: An Alternative History of the World’ (Profile, 2023) + ‘Epidemics in Modern Asia’ (CUP, 2016).

New York via Hong Kong
Joined October 2013
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Robert Peckham
1 year
“Remarkable” “Brilliant” “Timely”: thank you @PD_Smith for the generous review of #FearTheBook in @guardian
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Robert Peckham
3 months
Enjoyed reading Michael Bresalier’s ‘Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950.’ Review just out in @IsisJournal.
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Robert Peckham
3 months
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81 | Brazil | The Guardian
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Brazilian photographer’s work highlighted injustice and introduced rainforest to the world
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Robert Peckham
3 months
Just received the Japanese edition of #FearTheBook published by Tokyodo Shuppan. Many thanks to everyone who made this happen. Living in Tokyo was a formative experience, and it’s good to know that my book now lives there, too.
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Robert Peckham
4 months
RT @parisreview: We at the Review mourn the loss of Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his….
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Quoting Neruda: “I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.”
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Robert Peckham
6 months
RT @EspacioFTef: ¡Nos unimos una vez más a la programación del @forodelacultura, que este 2025 pone el foco en el miedo y sus entresijos! 😱….
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Robert Peckham
6 months
RT @el_paisus: 💬 P. Usted defiende que también hay algo esperanzador y positivo en el miedo. R. El miedo también da claridad. Nos recuerda….
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El ensayista británico afirma que la gente prefiere que otros decidan por ellos. Sostiene que los temores que asociamos a la pandemia hoy se han diluido en otros nuevos
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Robert Peckham
6 months
RT @anavidalegea: Ya lo dice el historiador británico @RSPeckham: La libertad da miedo. Y dejar que otros decidan por nosotros tiene sus co….
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El ensayista británico afirma que la gente prefiere que otros decidan por ellos. Sostiene que los temores que asociamos a la pandemia hoy se han diluido en otros nuevos
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Robert Peckham
8 months
RT @forodelacultura: 😌 ¡Qué mejor regalo de Reyes adelantado que el cartel completo con los ponentes internacionales del #ForodelaCultura25….
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Robert Peckham
8 months
RT @forodelacultura: 📖 Son muchos los ponentes de esta nueva edición del Foro de la Cultura los que pueden presumir de haber escrito libros….
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Robert Peckham
9 months
RT @ABC_Cultural: 'Miedo', de Robert Peckham: el terror puesto al día El historiador británico estudia cómo en gene….
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El historiador británico estudia cómo en general el temor es una manera de coacción para dictadores, tiranos y autócratas
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Robert Peckham
9 months
RT @Histmagorg: Robert Peckham w książce „Strach. Inna historia świata” śledzi historię strachu. W jaki sposób strach i panika uczyniły nas….
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Robert Peckham w książce „Strach. Inna historia świata” śledzi historię strachu. W jaki sposób strach i panika uczyniły nas tym, kim jesteśmy? I czy s
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Robert Peckham
9 months
RT @limlouisa: As a generation of Hong Kong’s brightest and best start a collective 45 years behind bars, HK cartoonist summed it up best.….
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Robert Peckham
9 months
RT @Bairuiwen: The new issue of Granta on China is now out! I contributed a translation of an unpublished short story by Yu Hua, which mark….
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‘My fifty-two-year-old heart beat like a twenty-year-old. Sun Qiang’s camera was only ever directed at Mianyang and various celebrities, but now it was pointed at her and me.’
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Robert Peckham
10 months
RT @BibliotequesLH: A través de relats de la gent i de moments que han donat forma a la història, es veu com el temor ens ha fet ser qui so….
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Robert Peckham
10 months
Great looking conference on fear @uniofwarwick Fear is so universally invoked and yet still so little studied. @multistorey #fear.
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Mark Storey
11 months
‘Fear Studies in an Age of Fear’.A one-day conference @uniofwarwick .31 January 2025. Deadline for proposals **25 October**.Full details can be found here:
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Robert Peckham
10 months
Great to see a preview of the cover of the Polish edition of #FearTheBook which is being published by Znak and is available for preorder. And many thanks to the translator, Aleksandra Ożarowska!
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Robert Peckham
10 months
China’s passport collection drive as part of a “personal travel abroad management” effort in ⁦⁦@FT
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Authorities make travelling abroad difficult for growing number of public sector employees
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