Dr Emily Jones
@jonesemily.bsky.social
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition forthcoming with Princeton UP!
And I won!! Sadly this was 2005.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And I won!! Sadly this was 2005.
It exists! Still pondering the cover but... it exists! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Disraeli Myth
Tracing the multifaceted construction and deployment of the Disraeli myth and its legacy in Conservative (and conservative) politics
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October 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It exists! Still pondering the cover but... it exists! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
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October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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'Churchill, you may recall, received the Nobel prize in literature and wrote in four volumes A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Though, if Badenoch had her way, not the English-studying peoples.' observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer
Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate
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October 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
'Churchill, you may recall, received the Nobel prize in literature and wrote in four volumes A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Though, if Badenoch had her way, not the English-studying peoples.' observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
Seen as we are 'battling for souls' again, I still think this (that I wrote in 2021) holds up pretty well www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The battle for the soul of conservatism
Edmund Fawcett’s book traces the evolution of an often-contested ideology.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Seen as we are 'battling for souls' again, I still think this (that I wrote in 2021) holds up pretty well www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The political culture has of course changed @lewisgoodall.com @newsagents.bsky.social - interview a historian and we will be able to tell you all about it!
September 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The political culture has of course changed @lewisgoodall.com @newsagents.bsky.social - interview a historian and we will be able to tell you all about it!
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Call for book proposals!
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The content we need. Although I now have the theme tune stuck in my head...
My new piece on Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service, and the neoliberalisation of Britain’s postal service. A little 🧵 on how this theme plays out in the show…
#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #socsky
#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #socsky
Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service (2008–2017)
The BBC’s readaptation of the adventures of Britain’s most famous fictional postman mirrored many concurrent neoliberal transformations of its postal service.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The content we need. Although I now have the theme tune stuck in my head...
'She believed that her husband was one of those men whose memoirs should be written when they died.' Still finding this #Middlemarch re-read very amusing.
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
'She believed that her husband was one of those men whose memoirs should be written when they died.' Still finding this #Middlemarch re-read very amusing.
'Make It Happen looks at the financial crash of 2008 through the lens of 18th-century economist Adam Smith’s theories, pitting capitalism against morality.' Perhaps there is hope for a Burke play yet observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
James Graham: ‘Britain is not sure what its next story is’
The Dear England playwright is turning his attention to Scotland for a satire starring Succession’s Brian Cox
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August 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
'Make It Happen looks at the financial crash of 2008 through the lens of 18th-century economist Adam Smith’s theories, pitting capitalism against morality.' Perhaps there is hope for a Burke play yet observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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“It matters that we understand the past and its complexities, […] because it helps us think critically, understand better, recognize complexity. …The inability or unwillingness of so many people around the world to recognize complexity is a really worrying trend.”
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...
At a time of crisis for the profession, a unique collection of interviews demonstrates the importance of history. - History & Policy
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK, the Institute of Historical Research has made available a unique archive of interviews with some of the profession's leading post-war Bri...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“It matters that we understand the past and its complexities, […] because it helps us think critically, understand better, recognize complexity. …The inability or unwillingness of so many people around the world to recognize complexity is a really worrying trend.”
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History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
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July 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
FYI if any growth is recorded for the month of July I can confirm that it has been driven entirely by the sale of Oasis tshirts and bucket hats in Manchester.
July 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
FYI if any growth is recorded for the month of July I can confirm that it has been driven entirely by the sale of Oasis tshirts and bucket hats in Manchester.
Another great thing about being a historian is that when I hear about a man spontaneously taking his trousers off at work my mind automatically goes to John Stuart Mill.
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Another great thing about being a historian is that when I hear about a man spontaneously taking his trousers off at work my mind automatically goes to John Stuart Mill.
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This, this, a thousand times this. Past students of mine will recognize something similar as one of my very favourite rants.
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)
Welsh group makes 264 sashes for female MPs to mark women's vote
Each MP received a sash to mark 97 years of women being given the right to vote.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This, this, a thousand times this. Past students of mine will recognize something similar as one of my very favourite rants.
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
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A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
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June 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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@lauracforster.bsky.social presenting her wonderful book ‘The Paris Commune in Britain’ yesterday at the Bread & Roses, under the good auspices of John Burns himself.
A warmly recommended read, highlighting everyday sociabilities and personal networks in political memory and movement construction.
A warmly recommended read, highlighting everyday sociabilities and personal networks in political memory and movement construction.
June 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
@lauracforster.bsky.social presenting her wonderful book ‘The Paris Commune in Britain’ yesterday at the Bread & Roses, under the good auspices of John Burns himself.
A warmly recommended read, highlighting everyday sociabilities and personal networks in political memory and movement construction.
A warmly recommended read, highlighting everyday sociabilities and personal networks in political memory and movement construction.
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If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
May 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
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Booking is also open for the Society's 2025 Prothero Lecture, on Weds 2 July, with Prof Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome.
#Skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome.
#Skystorians
Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective
Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.
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May 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Booking is also open for the Society's 2025 Prothero Lecture, on Weds 2 July, with Prof Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome.
#Skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome.
#Skystorians
Pass me a hat. Lots of gutted people in the friends and family WhatsApp chats today.
Speaking as a native of this constituency I would eat the proverbial hat if this happens but you never know!
Here's the Runcorn and Helsby result last time. Reform UK need a big swing to take it, but it's by no means beyond them - which would power them to new polling heights, like the SDP in the early 80s.
May 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Pass me a hat. Lots of gutted people in the friends and family WhatsApp chats today.
Big day for Frodsham today. Mum's horrible neighbours have a Reform placard out the front. Will the 'Mickle Tickle' Conservatives also switch allegiance? Will Runcorn in fact go Green?? Am available for interviews seeking well informed local flavour 🤣
May 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Big day for Frodsham today. Mum's horrible neighbours have a Reform placard out the front. Will the 'Mickle Tickle' Conservatives also switch allegiance? Will Runcorn in fact go Green?? Am available for interviews seeking well informed local flavour 🤣
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A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.
'While the details of Santini’s case remain unclear, it has raised the issue of how journalists verify the credentials of sources in the AI age.' Hoping this is classic British understatement.
NEW: She’s one of the most widely quoted psychologists, but her pronouncements have begun disappearing from the internet.
Could her persona be an elaborate hoax?
As AI progresses, journalists face a “wake up call” over checking their sources.
This story follows top @pressgazette.co.uk work:
Could her persona be an elaborate hoax?
As AI progresses, journalists face a “wake up call” over checking their sources.
This story follows top @pressgazette.co.uk work:
April 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.