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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
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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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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Dec 8
New piece on ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, the biopic about Bruce Springsteen making his 1982 album Nebraska amid his own worsening mental health crisis, and how it frames that album in relation to his life and career. A 🧵 on my take on the film.

#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
This biopic frames the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska in the context of his own psychological turmoil, at the omission of the broader social and political strife it also channelled.
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Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!
andrewseaton.bsky.social Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 4d
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.

A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below, please share.
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
February 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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I've got an article for that! This 2020 article from @conteurohistory.bsky.social explored the process as it was practiced in the south: ‘Uprooting identity: European Integration, political realignment, and the wine of the Languedoc (1984-2014)’

doi.org/10.1017/S096...

#skystorians 🗃️
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
The Starmer ultraloyalism you occasionally encounter on here may be the hollowest type of political fandom I’ve ever seen. He hasn’t pursued the politics they claim to identify with at all. Be like if Johnson had ducked triggering Article 50 and Brexiteers still hero-worshipped him regardless.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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A sad sight.
Arsenal banner being held up by fans saying ‘SIR KEIR THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES BUT IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE’
February 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Today I'll be looking at women's activism with my Postcolonial London class, marking some of their essays, doing a bit of peer reviewing, and hopefully finishing a post for my newsletter on refugee narratives.
February 9, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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'The "Axis Of Evil" (2002) [Part 1]', w/ @jodyavirgan.com, @pastpunditry.bsky.social & @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, on @thisdaypod.com.
The "Axis Of Evil" (2002) [Part 1]
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February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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'Kung Fu Panda (2008)' w/ Christopher Holliday, Alexander Sergeant & @johnyorkestory.bsky.social on 'Fantasy/Animation' podcast.
Kung Fu Panda (2008) (with John Yorke)
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February 9, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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'1,000 Days of War in Sudan', w/ Kwangu Liwewe Agyei, @ikushkush.bsky.social & @mutasima.bsky.social on @newlinesmag.bsky.social's 'The Lede' podcast.
1,000 Days of War in Sudan
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February 9, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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'The Donroe Doctrine', on the Know Your Enemy podcast, w/ @samadlerbell.bsky.social, @mattsitman.bsky.social, and guests David Adler & Matt Kirkegaard of @progintl.bsky.social.
The Donroe Doctrine (w/ David Adler & Matt Kirkegaard)
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February 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵

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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
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February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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I don't disagree with this, I just do also think that Thatcher, Blair and Johnson showed that it is possible to get the other lot's voters without demoralising your base so much that you only get 34 per cent, and that the first two did so in a way that meant they could govern effectively.
jamesomalley.co.uk James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23h
I don't disagree with this per-se (it wasn't just McSweeney!), but I do think it was pretty important that McSweeney and Starmer successfully repositioned Labour – with all of the pain that entailed – so they could capture as many seats as they did.
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23h
I do wonder about anyone who thinks McSweeney single-handedly won Labour its majority. They do realise they were up against a catastrophically unpopular government? The 2024 result was very much an underperformance against the fundamentals.
February 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Half time adverts are like

‘“You are pathetic, weak humans, soon we will replace you all!”

Skynet…official genocidal sentient computer network partner of Liverpool FC.’
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Glory, glory
Lay it all on me
Morgan McSweeney
Morgan resigning
February 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
it would be great if Jeffries did a "you aren't even on my level, I'll let my junior congressmen ride on you bitches too" thing a la

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Check this out, you motherfuckers know what time it is (Take money) / I don't even know why I'm on this track (Take money) / Y'all niggas ain't even on my level, I'ma let my lil' homies ride (Take mon...
2Pac sets up the rest of the song as a warm up exercise for his little homies: The Outlawz. Bad Boy (Biggie, Puff, and co.) aren’t on Pac’s level, so Pac lets his boys do the job.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew"
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING:

New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:

"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
February 7, 2026 at 10:44 AM
drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
This really made me reflect upon what it means to consider the League of Nations as precursor to the post-WW2 international order. Their discussion of the League's role in Greek/Turkish population exchanges after WW1 in particular had me pondering comparisons/contrasts with the UN's role in Cyprus.
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
I really loved this piece by @willpooley.bsky.social - both for its exploration of failure as a category of historical analysis, but also for its (sadly far too resonant) exploration of failure and its limitations as a framework for reflecting upon working in academia.
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Kay Dickinson interviewed by @bradleymorgan.bsky.social about her book, 'Fernando: A Song by ABBA', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Kay Dickinson, "Fernando: A Song by ABBA" (Duke UP, 2025)
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February 7, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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'Ugandans want change' - @cathkemi.bsky.social interviewing @nickopiyo.bsky.social for 'The Interview' on the BBC World Service.
Nicholas Opiyo, human rights lawyer: Ugandans want change
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February 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Lucas Tse interviewing @joemaiolo.bsky.social & Laura Robson about their book 'The League of Nations', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Joseph Maiolo and Laura Robson, "The League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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February 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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'How Liberal Democratic Countries will cooperate without the US', by @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social.
How Liberal Democratic Countries will cooperate without the US
I sometimes get things right and sometimes wrong, but I cannot remember one of my posts being proved right within two days of publication....
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February 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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'The Origins of Culture Wars', by Robert D. Priest for @historyworkshop.org.uk.
The Origins of Culture Wars
How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth century Germany? Robert D. Priest explores.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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'Six Axioms of Failure', by @willpooley.bsky.social.
Six Axioms of Failure
In his history of the forest of the Landes, Jacques Sargos tells a story about utopian canal projects. The region of southwestern France known as the Landes, or moorlands of Gascony, was considered…
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February 7, 2026 at 12:21 PM