Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
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‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: classical jurisprudence, politics, and patriarchy in A Family Affair
This article examines the treatment of questions of jurisprudence, and its social and political connotations, in Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the New Deal, with...
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Really pleased that my new article, ‘‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: Classical Jurisprudence, Politics, and Patriarchy in A Family Affair’ is now out in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. A short 🧵about it.
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
#filmsky #lawsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
Rain.
Name your fav song by The Beatles.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Rain.
I do wonder how much the 2000 fuel protests - which I think were the only time Labour were behind the Tories in the polls that entire first term? - have been a bit memory holed.
Indeed. Do people not remember the fuel protests here in the UK? Or just over the Channel? I'm not saying it has been the right decision but it should be quite obvious that the problem is 'motorists get angry'.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I do wonder how much the 2000 fuel protests - which I think were the only time Labour were behind the Tories in the polls that entire first term? - have been a bit memory holed.
There are a lot of places in this world that I have never been to, whose names I cannot but sing in the style of famous songs that mention them. West Virginia to the tune of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’, Tucson, Arizona to the tune of ‘Get Back’, etc.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
There are a lot of places in this world that I have never been to, whose names I cannot but sing in the style of famous songs that mention them. West Virginia to the tune of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’, Tucson, Arizona to the tune of ‘Get Back’, etc.
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...
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Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
👥 Associate Editors introductions: Andrew Frayn
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
People shocked by the OBR leaking the budget less than an hour early would have their minds blown by First Look Hollyoaks.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
People shocked by the OBR leaking the budget less than an hour early would have their minds blown by First Look Hollyoaks.
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Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time
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New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.
England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
OBR document apparently also said Ødergaard makes the bench tonight, but Gyökeres and Havertz still a little short.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
OBR document apparently also said Ødergaard makes the bench tonight, but Gyökeres and Havertz still a little short.
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Russia’s demographic crisis deepens, and, yet again, the answer is to regulate women’s behaviors rather than further incentivize not just birth, but parenthood, focus on the male behaviors that have been leading to their early death, or most pressingly, end the war. (1/4)
Matviyenko Urges Russians to Rethink Their Views on Early Parenthood as Demographic Crisis Deepens - The Moscow Times
Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said in an interview published Tuesday that Russians need to rethink their attitudes toward early parenthood, reframing it as the “norm” amid government...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Russia’s demographic crisis deepens, and, yet again, the answer is to regulate women’s behaviors rather than further incentivize not just birth, but parenthood, focus on the male behaviors that have been leading to their early death, or most pressingly, end the war. (1/4)
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Incredibly sad and unbecoming when you have to briefly use microsoft edge for something and it asks to be made your default browser. Have a little self respect.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Incredibly sad and unbecoming when you have to briefly use microsoft edge for something and it asks to be made your default browser. Have a little self respect.
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New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Ronaldo is the perfect ambassador for the coming World Cup. An avatar for greed, selfishness, ego, corruption, toxic masculinity, and lack of consequences for one’s actions.
Cristiano Ronaldo has magically had his ban reduced so he can start the World Cup. There is no precedent...but then he met the President. How depressing...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup reprieve stinks
Portugal star’s magic non-ban is depressingly inevitable
inews.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ronaldo is the perfect ambassador for the coming World Cup. An avatar for greed, selfishness, ego, corruption, toxic masculinity, and lack of consequences for one’s actions.
OH to 5yo this morning (warningly, as he refused to cooperate in getting dressed for school): “Do I need to tell Santa about you?”
8yo (deadpan, without looking up from her book): “I think he probably already knows.”
8yo (deadpan, without looking up from her book): “I think he probably already knows.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
OH to 5yo this morning (warningly, as he refused to cooperate in getting dressed for school): “Do I need to tell Santa about you?”
8yo (deadpan, without looking up from her book): “I think he probably already knows.”
8yo (deadpan, without looking up from her book): “I think he probably already knows.”
Players don’t whack their own teammates enough these days.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Players don’t whack their own teammates enough these days.
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I enjoyed a rare privilege today: seeing one of my new journal articles in print.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I enjoyed a rare privilege today: seeing one of my new journal articles in print.
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Episode 42 of ALILI is a return to the Germanic languages, but with a new guest: Old Norse specialist Jackson Crawford (@norsebysw.bsky.social) of YouTube fame introduces the language and discusses his translations of the Poetic Edda.
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Episode 42 of ALILI is a return to the Germanic languages, but with a new guest: Old Norse specialist Jackson Crawford (@norsebysw.bsky.social) of YouTube fame introduces the language and discusses his translations of the Poetic Edda.
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately?
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately?
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
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Once more before Sunday ends, here's today's #ScholarSunday thread. Please share widely to get all this great public scholarship out there, & thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Once more before Sunday ends, here's today's #ScholarSunday thread. Please share widely to get all this great public scholarship out there, & thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
Or when the Mail published the story about his dad, a Jewish refugee who served in the Royal Navy during WW2, entitled ‘The Man Who Hated Britain’.
You know the bacon sandwich thing. There was a weird sort of antisemitic subtext to that right?
Miliband as next PM continues to be really under-priced
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Or when the Mail published the story about his dad, a Jewish refugee who served in the Royal Navy during WW2, entitled ‘The Man Who Hated Britain’.
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I'm looking for readings for well prepared first year university students on international socialism and/or anarchism before 1914. Please and thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm looking for readings for well prepared first year university students on international socialism and/or anarchism before 1914. Please and thank you!
Different strokes for different folks so create the opportunities and freedoms for people to choose the working environments in which they’re happiest and most productive.
Makes *some* of us happier.
Sure it helps if you have a nice house and reasons to be stuck home. Some of us need a mix or balance of things: and the removal of proper work spaces is not okay.
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk/21-11-2025/1...
Sure it helps if you have a nice house and reasons to be stuck home. Some of us need a mix or balance of things: and the removal of proper work spaces is not okay.
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk/21-11-2025/1...
Researchers studying remote work for four years reach a blunt conclusion “Home working makes us happier” and bosses hate it
Not in a shiny-inspirational-poster way, but in the Thursday afternoon way that decides whether you have enough patience left for life. The first morning
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Different strokes for different folks so create the opportunities and freedoms for people to choose the working environments in which they’re happiest and most productive.