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How did human remains shape medical knowledge in Australia and beyond?
Eugenia Pacitti’s The Body Collected in Australia explores anatomy museums, dissecting rooms, and the colonial networks of biomedical science.
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Eugenia Pacitti’s The Body Collected in Australia explores anatomy museums, dissecting rooms, and the colonial networks of biomedical science.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
How did human remains shape medical knowledge in Australia and beyond?
Eugenia Pacitti’s The Body Collected in Australia explores anatomy museums, dissecting rooms, and the colonial networks of biomedical science.
📖 https://bit.ly/4nwf0Uo
Eugenia Pacitti’s The Body Collected in Australia explores anatomy museums, dissecting rooms, and the colonial networks of biomedical science.
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@professorwatson.bsky.social’s author talk discussing his book “Rebel at the Gates” aired last weekend on C-SPAN.
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Robert Watson, "Rebels at the Gates"
Author Robert Watson talks about the Civil War during the summer of 1864, and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@professorwatson.bsky.social’s author talk discussing his book “Rebel at the Gates” aired last weekend on C-SPAN.
Watch here: https://bit.ly/3LF525o
📚💙 #HistorySky @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Watch here: https://bit.ly/3LF525o
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How did emotions fuel revolution in 1950s Egypt?
Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah’s Revolutionary Emotions in Cold War Egypt uncovers how moral storytelling, from Islamic parables to communist myths, mobilized anti-colonial resistance.
Now in paperback! https://bit.ly/4ppbTzm
Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah’s Revolutionary Emotions in Cold War Egypt uncovers how moral storytelling, from Islamic parables to communist myths, mobilized anti-colonial resistance.
Now in paperback! https://bit.ly/4ppbTzm
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How did emotions fuel revolution in 1950s Egypt?
Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah’s Revolutionary Emotions in Cold War Egypt uncovers how moral storytelling, from Islamic parables to communist myths, mobilized anti-colonial resistance.
Now in paperback! https://bit.ly/4ppbTzm
Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah’s Revolutionary Emotions in Cold War Egypt uncovers how moral storytelling, from Islamic parables to communist myths, mobilized anti-colonial resistance.
Now in paperback! https://bit.ly/4ppbTzm
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If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
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Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
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November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
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Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
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📘New Paperback: Esther Elizabeth Adaire’s Neo-Nazi Postmodern traces the evolution of Germany’s far-right from reunification to the present, exposing how intellectuals, fringe parties & neo-Nazis coalesced to undermine truth and memory.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📘New Paperback: Esther Elizabeth Adaire’s Neo-Nazi Postmodern traces the evolution of Germany’s far-right from reunification to the present, exposing how intellectuals, fringe parties & neo-Nazis coalesced to undermine truth and memory.
https://bit.ly/4nw58dq
https://bit.ly/4nw58dq
Now in paperback: Alun Williams’ Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain explores how biblical rhetoric shaped historical writing in León-Castile during the 12th–13th centuries. A vital contribution to medieval Iberian and historiographical studies. https://bit.ly/4gsq9Du
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Now in paperback: Alun Williams’ Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain explores how biblical rhetoric shaped historical writing in León-Castile during the 12th–13th centuries. A vital contribution to medieval Iberian and historiographical studies. https://bit.ly/4gsq9Du
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How have minorities shaped—and been shaped by—global history?
This volume explores exclusion, integration, and identity across Imperial Russia, Korea, China, Africa & beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/41UpuVl
How have minorities shaped—and been shaped by—global history?
This volume explores exclusion, integration, and identity across Imperial Russia, Korea, China, Africa & beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/41UpuVl
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Now in Paperback 📖
How have minorities shaped—and been shaped by—global history?
This volume explores exclusion, integration, and identity across Imperial Russia, Korea, China, Africa & beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/41UpuVl
How have minorities shaped—and been shaped by—global history?
This volume explores exclusion, integration, and identity across Imperial Russia, Korea, China, Africa & beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/41UpuVl
Steven Zdatny’s A History of Hygiene in Modern France explores how cleanliness reshaped bodies, homes, and public life in the 19th & 20th centuries.
A compelling study of modernization, and the politics of the everyday.
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A compelling study of modernization, and the politics of the everyday.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Steven Zdatny’s A History of Hygiene in Modern France explores how cleanliness reshaped bodies, homes, and public life in the 19th & 20th centuries.
A compelling study of modernization, and the politics of the everyday.
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A compelling study of modernization, and the politics of the everyday.
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Decades after his father’s disappearance and the fall of the Soviet Union, Peter Buck Feller goes on a journey to reclaim his father’s story in “The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller.”
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October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Decades after his father’s disappearance and the fall of the Soviet Union, Peter Buck Feller goes on a journey to reclaim his father’s story in “The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller.”
https://bit.ly/3WofvVc
📚💙 #HistorySky @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3WofvVc
📚💙 #HistorySky @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Uncover the rich symbolism of Holy Week in Sonora, Mexico.
The Fariseos Folk Tradition by Guillermo Núñez Noriega, edited by Norma Elia Cantú, offers a powerful look at masculinity, morality & ritual through folklore and performance theory.
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The Fariseos Folk Tradition by Guillermo Núñez Noriega, edited by Norma Elia Cantú, offers a powerful look at masculinity, morality & ritual through folklore and performance theory.
📘 Order now: https://bit.ly/46jY4cP
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Uncover the rich symbolism of Holy Week in Sonora, Mexico.
The Fariseos Folk Tradition by Guillermo Núñez Noriega, edited by Norma Elia Cantú, offers a powerful look at masculinity, morality & ritual through folklore and performance theory.
📘 Order now: https://bit.ly/46jY4cP
The Fariseos Folk Tradition by Guillermo Núñez Noriega, edited by Norma Elia Cantú, offers a powerful look at masculinity, morality & ritual through folklore and performance theory.
📘 Order now: https://bit.ly/46jY4cP
Waitman Wade Beorn’s The Holocaust in Eastern Europe offers a deeply researched account of genocide at its geographic and ideological epicenter, exploring ghettoization, collaboration, resistance, and the experiences of both Jewish and non-Jewish victims. https://bit.ly/48jdGjj
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Waitman Wade Beorn’s The Holocaust in Eastern Europe offers a deeply researched account of genocide at its geographic and ideological epicenter, exploring ghettoization, collaboration, resistance, and the experiences of both Jewish and non-Jewish victims. https://bit.ly/48jdGjj
Empires of Violence by Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn & Lyndall Ryan examine Indigenous resistance, imperial warfare, and the racial logic of violence in a revolutionary age.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Empires of Violence by Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn & Lyndall Ryan examine Indigenous resistance, imperial warfare, and the racial logic of violence in a revolutionary age.
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Explore the untold intellectual history of Europe’s Cold War through the eyes of Jean-Paul Sartre. Nancy Jachec’s Italy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Europe's Cold War dives deep into Sartre’s ties to Italy’s leftist culture and politics.
📚 🔗 Available now https://bit.ly/4mji71c
📚 🔗 Available now https://bit.ly/4mji71c
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Explore the untold intellectual history of Europe’s Cold War through the eyes of Jean-Paul Sartre. Nancy Jachec’s Italy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Europe's Cold War dives deep into Sartre’s ties to Italy’s leftist culture and politics.
📚 🔗 Available now https://bit.ly/4mji71c
📚 🔗 Available now https://bit.ly/4mji71c
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A shout out to the SAAH team @archanchistleic.bsky.social, the colleagues that contributed to it and our publisher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social. Our volume (a result of our work in the department) just received its first official Review (by BMCR), and a good one: tinyurl.com/44h9xrjx
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October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A shout out to the SAAH team @archanchistleic.bsky.social, the colleagues that contributed to it and our publisher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social. Our volume (a result of our work in the department) just received its first official Review (by BMCR), and a good one: tinyurl.com/44h9xrjx
Honour Black history every month with our curated collection of inspiring stories, essential histories and powerful voices from across the UK and beyond. https://bit.ly/4poaSHJ
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Honour Black history every month with our curated collection of inspiring stories, essential histories and powerful voices from across the UK and beyond. https://bit.ly/4poaSHJ
The New Approaches to International History series incorporates new developments in the field, such as the cultural turn and transnationalism, as well as the classical high politics of state-centric policymaking and diplomatic relations. https://bit.ly/4o4OOk2
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The New Approaches to International History series incorporates new developments in the field, such as the cultural turn and transnationalism, as well as the classical high politics of state-centric policymaking and diplomatic relations. https://bit.ly/4o4OOk2
The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944 provides a chance to explore a crucial summer for the Kennedy family, before their story entered into public mythology and captured wider national and international attention.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944 provides a chance to explore a crucial summer for the Kennedy family, before their story entered into public mythology and captured wider national and international attention.
Get your copy! https://bit.ly/4nC2AdI
Get your copy! https://bit.ly/4nC2AdI
Paul Baxa’s Fascism in Europe and Beyond offers a sweeping historiographical and cultural analysis of fascism from its fin-de-siècle origins to its modern re-emergence, covering Europe, imperial Japan, and Cold War America.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4n7JjBc
🔗 https://bit.ly/4n7JjBc
October 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Paul Baxa’s Fascism in Europe and Beyond offers a sweeping historiographical and cultural analysis of fascism from its fin-de-siècle origins to its modern re-emergence, covering Europe, imperial Japan, and Cold War America.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4n7JjBc
🔗 https://bit.ly/4n7JjBc
Philip Jenkins’ A History of the United States offers a comprehensive and critically updated narrative of American history. This 6th edition integrates new scholarship on race, gender, and environmental history, making it an essential resource.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3IkSDm1
🔗 https://bit.ly/3IkSDm1
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Philip Jenkins’ A History of the United States offers a comprehensive and critically updated narrative of American history. This 6th edition integrates new scholarship on race, gender, and environmental history, making it an essential resource.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3IkSDm1
🔗 https://bit.ly/3IkSDm1
How did images shape empire?
Valerie A. Kivelson’s Images and the Making of the Russian Empire explores how visual culture helped build—and resist—imperial power in Muscovy.
📚 Richly illustrated with 120 rare visuals.
🔗 Discover the book https://bit.ly/41OGWuw
Valerie A. Kivelson’s Images and the Making of the Russian Empire explores how visual culture helped build—and resist—imperial power in Muscovy.
📚 Richly illustrated with 120 rare visuals.
🔗 Discover the book https://bit.ly/41OGWuw
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
How did images shape empire?
Valerie A. Kivelson’s Images and the Making of the Russian Empire explores how visual culture helped build—and resist—imperial power in Muscovy.
📚 Richly illustrated with 120 rare visuals.
🔗 Discover the book https://bit.ly/41OGWuw
Valerie A. Kivelson’s Images and the Making of the Russian Empire explores how visual culture helped build—and resist—imperial power in Muscovy.
📚 Richly illustrated with 120 rare visuals.
🔗 Discover the book https://bit.ly/41OGWuw
Out now https://bit.ly/3Innr5v
From battlefields to hospital wards, Well-being Past and Present edited by Siobhan Hyland, Paul Jackson & Mark Rothery explores how Britain’s concept of well-being has evolved across time and place.
From battlefields to hospital wards, Well-being Past and Present edited by Siobhan Hyland, Paul Jackson & Mark Rothery explores how Britain’s concept of well-being has evolved across time and place.
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Out now https://bit.ly/3Innr5v
From battlefields to hospital wards, Well-being Past and Present edited by Siobhan Hyland, Paul Jackson & Mark Rothery explores how Britain’s concept of well-being has evolved across time and place.
From battlefields to hospital wards, Well-being Past and Present edited by Siobhan Hyland, Paul Jackson & Mark Rothery explores how Britain’s concept of well-being has evolved across time and place.
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James M Robertson reviews 'Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity', by Marina Falina
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Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity, by Marina Falina
Scholarship on inter-war Yugoslavia has largely collapsed the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church into a broader narrative about the competition of riva
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October 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
James M Robertson reviews 'Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity', by Marina Falina
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Joseph S Meisel reviews 'Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship', by Anne B. Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social
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Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship, by Anne B. Rodrick
Anne Rodrick’s monograph anatomises the workings of ‘knowledge-based culture’ by examining the institutions that offered lectures for a broad public on lit
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October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Joseph S Meisel reviews 'Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship', by Anne B. Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social
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Ana Echevarria reviews 'Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile', by Alun Williams
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Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile, by Alun Williams
This study focuses on the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iberian chronicles and the way in which their authors used epic modes, biblical narrative and exe
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October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ana Echevarria reviews 'Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile', by Alun Williams
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