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Will Clement
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Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him

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It’s giving Roy “Liverpool arent too big for relegation battle” Hodgson vibes
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
100% unrepentantly hostile here too, which has paid off in terms of people who know me well not bringing it up
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Or that making this distinction will be able to satisfy both those whose votes they are uselessly chasing (and will never get) as well as those who are horrified by the policy and who won't support it in any form.

Repeatedly demonstrating how to alienate everyone with each policy decision
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If only we had a real photo or artwork that depicted real miners in County Durham
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
How about "Its my party and I'll cry if I want to" as a new unity party for the disaffected left?
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No worries, happy to help! Arthur Asseraf's Electric News might also be useful too
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Then, also maybe either of these:
- Julian Wright and Allegra Fryxell (eds.), Time on a Human Scale: Experiencing the Present in Europe, 1860-1930 (2021)
- Oliver Zimmer, ‘One clock fits all? Time and imagined communities in nineteenth-century Germany’, Central European History, 53:1 (2020)
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The focus is more on middle-class individuals for the most part (plus German — not sure if you wanted British only) but Jean-Michel Johnston’s Networks of Modernity is brilliant on this for the telegraph system www.hist.cam.ac.uk/networks-mod....
Networks of Modernity | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
www.hist.cam.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Our timetables definitely in sync — taking my L3s to the John Rylands tomorrow to see their French collections, which includes some of the willow tree Napoleon was buried under. As you say, this job is still great (sometimes)
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“Sure the cost of living is increasing, but also this means less of a scramble for parking spaces at Waitrose”
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Congratulations, Doctor!
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is definitely an idea that they should have left back on the drawing board
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ha yes we have this with our six year old too. Her legs hurt because of all the gross burps, we have been told
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM