Andrew Popp
@andrewpopp.bsky.social
Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Searching for the romance of London in Acton Town.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Searching for the romance of London in Acton Town.
Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
This is just awful, awful news.
We are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Shakila Jacob. Prof. Jacob was a pioneer in international business history, bringing vital and much needed postcolonial perspectives to the discipline. She will be very sorely missed by many.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is just awful, awful news.
I have swapped stoney verticalities for liquid horizontals.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I have swapped stoney verticalities for liquid horizontals.
Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled
This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.
Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism
Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees
This is truly, wilfully abhorrent.
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US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
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November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees
I sway outside myself
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,
Theodore Roethke, The Rose
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,
Theodore Roethke, The Rose
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I sway outside myself
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,
Theodore Roethke, The Rose
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,
Theodore Roethke, The Rose
Danish election poster pulling no punches.
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Danish election poster pulling no punches.
Absolutely fabulous new article from @llchristyll.bsky.social on what crystallised in Copenhagen in 1970.
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Absolutely fabulous new article from @llchristyll.bsky.social on what crystallised in Copenhagen in 1970.
This is truly, wilfully abhorrent.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is truly, wilfully abhorrent.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Who amongst us has not speculated upon what sour cola potato chips would taste like?
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Who amongst us has not speculated upon what sour cola potato chips would taste like?
Having just finished Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent "Kairos," I enjoyed this greatly. How we & things & time all get inscribed into each other and how, in time, we & things & time can all get lost to one another. She writes with great historical consciousness.
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‘They disappeared when the wall came down’: German author Jenny Erpenbeck on the objects that contain vast histories
From the drip catchers of German coffee pots to the typewriter she used for her first works, the International Booker prize-winning writer reflects on the hidden significance of everyday items
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October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Having just finished Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent "Kairos," I enjoyed this greatly. How we & things & time all get inscribed into each other and how, in time, we & things & time can all get lost to one another. She writes with great historical consciousness.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
OTD in 1762 Jos Wedgwood wrote to Thomas Bentley about all that he hoped for in their future friendship, including, beautifully "to help me form a probable conjecture of things beyond our kenn." In 1768, they went on to form on of the most brilliant partnerships of the Industrial Revolution.
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
OTD in 1762 Jos Wedgwood wrote to Thomas Bentley about all that he hoped for in their future friendship, including, beautifully "to help me form a probable conjecture of things beyond our kenn." In 1768, they went on to form on of the most brilliant partnerships of the Industrial Revolution.
Read all about it! Swedish Cold War exposé!
Hot off the press! In "The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War" Rikard Westerbeg shines a light on secret collaboration between the Wallenbergs and Sweden's Cold War intelligence establishment. OA of course! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War
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October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Read all about it! Swedish Cold War exposé!
I don't form a culturally coherent group even when it's just me an no-one else.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I don't form a culturally coherent group even when it's just me an no-one else.
Reposted by Andrew Popp
#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...
October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...
Really looking forward to this, experiencing an author for the first time.
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Really looking forward to this, experiencing an author for the first time.
It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism.
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Befriending the Dead: History, Friendship, and Talking Across Time
Abstract. People in Britain are lonely; Britain is also one of the most age-segregated countries in the world. These realities create generational antagoni
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October 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism.
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Really looking forward to making something from this definitely not at all terrifying cook book.
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Really looking forward to making something from this definitely not at all terrifying cook book.
Wonderful new paper from Amrita Roy on "Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India" in @entandsoc.bsky.social
"How has caste influenced entrepreneurship in India in the past and how does it do so in the present?" Amrita Roy sets out to answer this vital question with a fantastic new paper in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Get it Open Access here, one click away.
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Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India
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October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wonderful new paper from Amrita Roy on "Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India" in @entandsoc.bsky.social
I guess I should get a move on and publish that essay on what kinds of knowledge were *really* useful to C18th entrepreneurs (and where did they get it from).
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I guess I should get a move on and publish that essay on what kinds of knowledge were *really* useful to C18th entrepreneurs (and where did they get it from).