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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 10h

It might have been (slightly) interesting if it had stretched back to Heath

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 21h

Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors

events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 18h

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Sean Irving @seanirving.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to have another piece out on the history of economic republicanism! In the 19th century, republican ideas were mobilised to argue for popular economic self-government, ideas that still have much to offer in our own age of oligarchy.

read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 3d

Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

A Cultural History of Higher Learning

How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…

www.bloomsbury.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 5d

I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 5d

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 4d

Ha ha ... indeed, he crops up in so many places

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 4d

forgot to tag @princetonupress.bsky.social

Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 4d

My almost-published book on Bryce is reviewed in distinguished company by Greg Conti here doi.org/10.1080/0191...

Worlds of Liberalism

This essay analyses two outstanding recent books on the history of British Liberalism: H.S. Jones's “Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect” and Jonathan Parry's “Liberalism.” The...

doi.org

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 5d

Shabana Mahmood has deported them back to Vega

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 9d

It's genuinely important

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 9d

and places to eat

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 10d

How is it possible to fall short of the standards of the Conservative Party?

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 10d

Sartor Resartus

Le Monde en Feed - non-officiel @lemonde.skyfleet.blue · 10d

Taylor Swift dévoile « The Life of a Showgirl », son douzième album

www.lemonde.fr

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 13d

A symposium on Georgios Varouxakis, The West: A History of an Idea

Date: 24 Oct • 15:00

Location: 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposiu...

A symposium on Georgios Varouxakis, The West: A History of an Idea

Georgios Varouxakis Symposium

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 16d

'We apologise for the late arrival of the 1931 Quinta do Noval'

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 21d

I've heard we do some great work on medieval divination. But everything else, yes

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 21d

'hard-won race-based rights'

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 22d

I've never heard him say anything about terrorism or show any interest in or knowledge of the subject. He can always be relied on for a far right talking-point about 'transgenderism', however

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 26d

Lincoln!

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 26d

The things that don't get funded won't be internationally competitive. So we'll know the right decision was made

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · Sep 13

First historian who claims Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth were radicalized at university will get the Presidential Medal for Freedom (and possibly prime time interview on CBS).

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · Sep 13

Not in his political lifetime, we can agree. Maybe next week, though?

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · Sep 12

The vice-chancellors' shop steward

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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · Sep 11

I had the pleasure to attend this wonderful new book by the inimitable @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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