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Douglas M. Peers FRHS is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the British Empire. He is a… more

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Balfour to Blair www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair
By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...
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"Warrior ethos." What bullshit. We don't have, nor do we want warriors. We have & want soldiers, members of disciplined teams, not individuals who do their own thing. I have a five paragraph vivisection of this in the forthcoming OUP Handbook of American Military History.
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Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

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Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation
The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...
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Great piece by an old friend and colleague.
Donald Trump’s penchant for bullshit explains MAGA anger about the Epstein files theconversation.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s penchant for bullshit explains MAGA anger about the Epstein files
Donald Trump’s supporters perceive, perhaps for the first time, that they are now targets of his political bullshit about Jeffrey Epstein rather than amused witnesses to it. And they don’t like it
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Reposted by Douglas M. Peers, Sara M. Butler, Talia Schaffer

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Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.

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Full-time Academic positions
Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...
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by Douglas M. Peers

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History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy | Common Dreams
As the accumulation of executive orders since Trump’s inauguration manifestly shows, the fate of history in America is a bellwether for the future of democracy itself.
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It is only Monday and already I am identifying with this great blue heron having a bad hair day surrounded by turkey vultures
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to Palestine Football Association
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
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This is not good and, sadly, resonates with my experiences as a non-white person attending at the past too. I don't do large beer festivals and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon

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It’s a nice day for a beer festival (if you’re a man)
Yesterday, I attended The Great British Beer Festival for the first time in a few years. Mainly because it was in Birmingham and I wanted to show up and support my community – it’s the first …
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JOB: Associate or Full Professor, Palestinian Literature & Culture, University of Toronto
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by Douglas M. Peers

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Kicked off our annual #Stratfest season with Macbeth. Absolutely amazing performance - original, visually stunning, and powerfully acted. Ranks among my favourites over the past 15 years. Looking forward to what other treats lie ahead

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Congratulations to our Fellow, Professor Joya Chatterji, for winning this year’s Wolfson History Prize with her book, Shadows at Noon!

Fantastic to see Nandini Das, the 2023 winner of our Book Prize for Courting India, shortlisted for the Prize also!
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
Book cover of 'Shadows at Noon' by Joya Chatterji featuring a child in a market setting.
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As would “thusly”.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · Feb 25
If English professors really had the power to indoctrinate their students, the word “utilize” would have long ago been banished to the most circumlocutory ring of hell.
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RIP to Dr. Marika Sherwood: a huge inspiration among historians and activists, and a founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association. Without her tireless contributions over the past few decades, the field of Black British History would look very different today. We owe her so much 🖤✊🏽
Marika Sherwood with Hakim Adi
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Observed a Spotted sandpiper, an Eastern Kingbird, and a Red-Eyed Vireo on our evening walks this week

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Our resident ospreys look like they have two juveniles under wing
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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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I wonder whether Biggar, Ferguson and Co can fully appreciate the irony of what has become of this one-time symbol of empire
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The Pentagon ordered a diversionary flight of B-2 bombers as misdirection, per NYT, because they were afraid Trump was giving the attack away to Iran via his social media posts
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Misogyny has become a political strategy — here’s how the pandemic helped make it happen
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Misogyny has become a political strategy — here’s how the pandemic helped make it happen
Online misogyny isn’t just fringe — it’s baked into the architecture of the internet itself and, increasingly, serves as a powerful political tool.
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This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.

Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.

Hacks. They should be ashamed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
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My second piece for the Guardian in a month! As promised, I wrote about Bill C-2 the border bill and how it’s MAGA-inspired
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Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? | Erica Ifill
If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill
www.theguardian.com
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Hot off the press! See our recent article 'Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings' by Robert Travers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Corruption scandals have long been viewed as crucial to the making of the British Empire in India in the late eighteenth century. But histories of these scandals have mainly focused on metropolitan...
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Sad news: I have heard that Professor Brian Bond died yesterday. He was 89. I last saw him three weeks ago. Brian was an immensely significant figure in British military history. He supervised my PhD (and 50 others) and I owe him a great deal. RIP.
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by Douglas M. Peers, Cathryn Costello, Toni Haastrup , and 3 more

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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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by Douglas M. Peers

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While I did not see any warblers today, I was treated before the skies opened up to a great crested flycatcher, swamp sparrow, and a wood thrush high in a tree #birds
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A great walk for a great cause. Sashbear is for anyone seeking resources to help loved ones deal with borderline personality disorder, emotional dysregulation, and suicidality
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