Nathan Cardon
@ncardon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897) for OUP. Trying to write another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world. Bio: https://shorturl.at/wybsY
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I am heartbroken and horrified that the department where I received my PhD is under threat of closure. This is a dynamic and welcoming community that is at the forefront of American Studies in the UK. I encourage everyone to sign the below petition and rally behind our colleagues in Nottingham.
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I am heartbroken and horrified that the department where I received my PhD is under threat of closure. This is a dynamic and welcoming community that is at the forefront of American Studies in the UK. I encourage everyone to sign the below petition and rally behind our colleagues in Nottingham.
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Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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The BBC has also always been aligned with the establishment in the UK, and as that establishment becomes ever more illiberal its journalists find themselves lurching rightward in search of an ever more conservative definition of ‘balance’
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The BBC has also always been aligned with the establishment in the UK, and as that establishment becomes ever more illiberal its journalists find themselves lurching rightward in search of an ever more conservative definition of ‘balance’
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A few weeks ago, I met up with @dannycarrier.bsky.social from the Camden New Journal to talk about histories of London, the 1920s & 1930s, and my new book Songs of Seven Dials.
You can read more about the book and our conversation at edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
You can read more about the book and our conversation at edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A few weeks ago, I met up with @dannycarrier.bsky.social from the Camden New Journal to talk about histories of London, the 1920s & 1930s, and my new book Songs of Seven Dials.
You can read more about the book and our conversation at edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
You can read more about the book and our conversation at edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
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My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
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We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Really looking forward to reading this and assigning it in my History of Tech class.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Really looking forward to reading this and assigning it in my History of Tech class.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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A really great opportunity to receive funding to study for a PhD at one of the UK's leading Arts & Humanities colleges @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Applications due 27 February 2026.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A really great opportunity to receive funding to study for a PhD at one of the UK's leading Arts & Humanities colleges @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Applications due 27 February 2026.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
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Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
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ATTN: SHAFR grad students and early career scholars
Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1.
tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx
Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1.
tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx
Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy
The Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs aims to help build the next generation of men and women who will bri...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
ATTN: SHAFR grad students and early career scholars
Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1.
tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx
Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1.
tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx
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Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
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Based on current fatality rates, 106 people will be killed in crashes on Birmingham’s roads during the 2026 to 2030 council term.
We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?
We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?
Will you make Birmingham's roads safer?
Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Based on current fatality rates, 106 people will be killed in crashes on Birmingham’s roads during the 2026 to 2030 council term.
We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?
We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?
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Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry).
bit.ly/47aB0xO
bit.ly/47aB0xO
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry).
bit.ly/47aB0xO
bit.ly/47aB0xO
A really great opportunity to receive funding to study for a PhD at one of the UK's leading Arts & Humanities colleges @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Applications due 27 February 2026.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A really great opportunity to receive funding to study for a PhD at one of the UK's leading Arts & Humanities colleges @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Applications due 27 February 2026.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
This will be a huge benefit to the suburbs of Bournville, Weoley, and Northfield, creating a safe alternative for many of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social (south Brum's largest employer) staff who live along this corridor.
A refreshingly positive spin on a cycle route going to cabinet for decision.
How Brum Council's £22.5m project could transform key city route
Birmingham City Council wants to extend the A38 cycle route in a bid to cut dependency on cars
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This will be a huge benefit to the suburbs of Bournville, Weoley, and Northfield, creating a safe alternative for many of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social (south Brum's largest employer) staff who live along this corridor.
If anyone in Glasgow wants to hear me talk about the American bicycle and U.S. global power at the end of the 19th century, then stop by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 4:30pm-6:00pm on November 12th!
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If anyone in Glasgow wants to hear me talk about the American bicycle and U.S. global power at the end of the 19th century, then stop by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 4:30pm-6:00pm on November 12th!
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Nathan Cardon, Matthew Brown & Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social trace the flow of people/products/ideas concerning the bicycle's sports culture in a transatlantic triangle in the Journal of Sport History
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Project MUSE - At the Bicycle Races: Global Sporting Culture and National Belonging at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, 1899–1913
muse.jhu.edu
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Nathan Cardon, Matthew Brown & Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social trace the flow of people/products/ideas concerning the bicycle's sports culture in a transatlantic triangle in the Journal of Sport History
muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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Cannot be said often enough that the political figure who inaugurated our age of lawlessness, arbitrary power and authoritarianism was not Donald Trump but Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Cannot be said often enough that the political figure who inaugurated our age of lawlessness, arbitrary power and authoritarianism was not Donald Trump but Dick Cheney
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Glasgow is one of the few British cities taking on #UKCarCulture, and here is the result.
This could be your city too, if people with power weren't preventing it from happening.
This could be your city too, if people with power weren't preventing it from happening.
“In May 2025, Scotland’s largest city [Glasgow] reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland or Montreal do a double take: during the morning rush hour, there were more bicycles than cars traveling along Victoria Road, a major artery…” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America
Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Glasgow is one of the few British cities taking on #UKCarCulture, and here is the result.
This could be your city too, if people with power weren't preventing it from happening.
This could be your city too, if people with power weren't preventing it from happening.
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Also good to see @janerockhouse.bsky.social shining light on some disturbing developments in Alvechurch. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Birmingham flag wars erupt in quiet village as defiant dad faces death threats
Flags have appeared across neighbourhoods in and around Birmingham and it's divided opinion. For one resident, standing up to the flaggers has come at a cost.
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Also good to see @janerockhouse.bsky.social shining light on some disturbing developments in Alvechurch. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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Another tragic week on our streets. Five pedestrians hit by drivers in just seven days.
No one should risk their life just going about their usual business. We need safer streets, slower speeds, and a shift in priorities: people first, not traffic flow.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
No one should risk their life just going about their usual business. We need safer streets, slower speeds, and a shift in priorities: people first, not traffic flow.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Road safety crisis continues as five pedestrians hit by vehicles on our streets
A man was hit by a car on Bristol Road in Edgbaston in the latest incident on our streets
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Another tragic week on our streets. Five pedestrians hit by drivers in just seven days.
No one should risk their life just going about their usual business. We need safer streets, slower speeds, and a shift in priorities: people first, not traffic flow.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
No one should risk their life just going about their usual business. We need safer streets, slower speeds, and a shift in priorities: people first, not traffic flow.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
We continue to live in a city created by the Victorians and Edwardians. Yet, we've chosen to prioritize only one type of Victorian and Edwardian transport technology, the automobile. Today, I'm talking at the @thevicsoc.bsky.social on why this came to be, and how the cycling city can exist again.
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We continue to live in a city created by the Victorians and Edwardians. Yet, we've chosen to prioritize only one type of Victorian and Edwardian transport technology, the automobile. Today, I'm talking at the @thevicsoc.bsky.social on why this came to be, and how the cycling city can exist again.
