Edd Mair
@edwardmair.bsky.social
Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
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📢 New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS drops this Thursday - Nathan Bedford Forrest and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan.
Spoiler: they were a shitshow.
Links to podcast in bio 🎧
@edwardmair.bsky.social
#history #america
Spoiler: they were a shitshow.
Links to podcast in bio 🎧
@edwardmair.bsky.social
#history #america
February 17, 2026 at 7:39 AM
📢 New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS drops this Thursday - Nathan Bedford Forrest and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan.
Spoiler: they were a shitshow.
Links to podcast in bio 🎧
@edwardmair.bsky.social
#history #america
Spoiler: they were a shitshow.
Links to podcast in bio 🎧
@edwardmair.bsky.social
#history #america
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CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
Any UK secondary school History teachers who may follow me on here: I will be organising the annual KCL History Teachers' Network conference that will take place this Summer. Get in touch if you want to be looped in! #EduSky
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Any UK secondary school History teachers who may follow me on here: I will be organising the annual KCL History Teachers' Network conference that will take place this Summer. Get in touch if you want to be looped in! #EduSky
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This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.
When we already knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein, he was given: a cushy Times Radio show, influence over Starmer's Labour Party, the ambassadorship to the US - to name a few things.
People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.
People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.
Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 8:47 AM
When we already knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein, he was given: a cushy Times Radio show, influence over Starmer's Labour Party, the ambassadorship to the US - to name a few things.
People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.
People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.
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Hello and welcome to the Sky News Shit-Hot Political Accountability Hour with me, literally Peter Mandelson’s best friend. Sadly there was nobody less obviously compromised who could host a current affairs show
February 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Hello and welcome to the Sky News Shit-Hot Political Accountability Hour with me, literally Peter Mandelson’s best friend. Sadly there was nobody less obviously compromised who could host a current affairs show
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Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...
Lecturer in Early Medieval History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Medieval History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...
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I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
Perhaps the only thing that can save UK universities: protect jobs or risk more weirdo academics running in by-elections.
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Perhaps the only thing that can save UK universities: protect jobs or risk more weirdo academics running in by-elections.
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond!
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919
This four-volume collection brings together a diverse array of primary sources that help contextualise the impacts of American imperialism across the long nineteenth century. These fascinating volumes...
www.routledge.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond!
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Three years of work is all worth it for the excitement of getting your book in the post.
December 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Three years of work is all worth it for the excitement of getting your book in the post.
I can say with absolute certainty* that this was the best play on American history I’ve ever seen.
*I’ve still not seen Hamilton.
*I’ve still not seen Hamilton.
December 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I can say with absolute certainty* that this was the best play on American history I’ve ever seen.
*I’ve still not seen Hamilton.
*I’ve still not seen Hamilton.
I remember seeing some self-described progressives amplifying this MP as an important voice. You'll be surprised to hear that all of them are silent on this.
once again asking what would be different if we had a Reform government
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I remember seeing some self-described progressives amplifying this MP as an important voice. You'll be surprised to hear that all of them are silent on this.
My review of Kathleen Brown's 'Undoing Slavery' is available in the latest issue of Early American Literature (Spoiler: it's good)!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
Project MUSE - <i>Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition</i> by Kathleen M. Brown (review)
muse.jhu.edu
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My review of Kathleen Brown's 'Undoing Slavery' is available in the latest issue of Early American Literature (Spoiler: it's good)!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
‘I Felt All This’
Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
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1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“Their place in history is settled.” These dipshits have absolutely no idea how history works.
(And the vast majority of ‘history’, as @karl-jacoby.bsky.social explains here, has been pretty clear-eyes that Wounded Knee was a massacre anyway.)
(And the vast majority of ‘history’, as @karl-jacoby.bsky.social explains here, has been pretty clear-eyes that Wounded Knee was a massacre anyway.)
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Their place in history is settled.” These dipshits have absolutely no idea how history works.
(And the vast majority of ‘history’, as @karl-jacoby.bsky.social explains here, has been pretty clear-eyes that Wounded Knee was a massacre anyway.)
(And the vast majority of ‘history’, as @karl-jacoby.bsky.social explains here, has been pretty clear-eyes that Wounded Knee was a massacre anyway.)
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We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 at University of Cambridge
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...
Evergreen. theonion.com/left-wing-gr...
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrat...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Evergreen. theonion.com/left-wing-gr...
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In 2014, I wrote an article about the Scourged Back photo for @anchistjournal.bsky.social which has generated more public interest than nearly anything I've written. The erasure of this image, which remains as powerful today and when it was taken, horrifies me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In 2014, I wrote an article about the Scourged Back photo for @anchistjournal.bsky.social which has generated more public interest than nearly anything I've written. The erasure of this image, which remains as powerful today and when it was taken, horrifies me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Both happy and relieved to say I’ll be lecturing at @kingshistory.bsky.social for the next academic year!
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Both happy and relieved to say I’ll be lecturing at @kingshistory.bsky.social for the next academic year!