Peter Mandler
@petermandler.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
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Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
Comedy Writer Bought ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ Domain Names, Anticipating President Would Rename Institution After Himself: ‘Satire Became Unavoidable’
In August, former 'South Park' writer Toby Morton registered 'TrumpKennedyCenter' domain names, anticipating that Trump would add his name to the D.C. landmark.
variety.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
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Lovely Christmas present left on my doorstep today - it really is as amazing as I’d hoped -all 29 chapters. The illustrations look fantastic - big thanks to Lund Humphries and the editors. Never seen an academic book looking happier on a coffee table 🙂
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Lovely Christmas present left on my doorstep today - it really is as amazing as I’d hoped -all 29 chapters. The illustrations look fantastic - big thanks to Lund Humphries and the editors. Never seen an academic book looking happier on a coffee table 🙂
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#Booksof2025
8. The Modern British City 1945-2000 - Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler & Otto Saumarez Smith
An epic account of the rise and fall of British Modernism
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8. The Modern British City 1945-2000 - Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler & Otto Saumarez Smith
An epic account of the rise and fall of British Modernism
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December 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#Booksof2025
8. The Modern British City 1945-2000 - Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler & Otto Saumarez Smith
An epic account of the rise and fall of British Modernism
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8. The Modern British City 1945-2000 - Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler & Otto Saumarez Smith
An epic account of the rise and fall of British Modernism
www.lundhumphries.com/products/the...
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The increasing convergence of mainstream media organisations, clickbait and the far-right has been one of the worst parts of 2025.
They know full well it wasn't just some "anti immigration tweets". He called for people to join him on the streets, burn down migrant hotels and "start the slaughter".
They know full well it wasn't just some "anti immigration tweets". He called for people to join him on the streets, burn down migrant hotels and "start the slaughter".
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The increasing convergence of mainstream media organisations, clickbait and the far-right has been one of the worst parts of 2025.
They know full well it wasn't just some "anti immigration tweets". He called for people to join him on the streets, burn down migrant hotels and "start the slaughter".
They know full well it wasn't just some "anti immigration tweets". He called for people to join him on the streets, burn down migrant hotels and "start the slaughter".
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Belatedly caught up with @cjfaraday.bsky.social's great Radio 3 documentary on music in the glorious biographical portrait of Sir Henry Unton. It's my favourite early modern painting and Christina and guests bring it wonderfully to life. Ideal pre-Christmas listening! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Sir Henry Unton's Music
Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Belatedly caught up with @cjfaraday.bsky.social's great Radio 3 documentary on music in the glorious biographical portrait of Sir Henry Unton. It's my favourite early modern painting and Christina and guests bring it wonderfully to life. Ideal pre-Christmas listening! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
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Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
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Booking for the first @royalhistsoc.org Lectures of 2026 is now available: bit.ly/48N0CCY
> Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’
> Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'
> David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective'
#Skystorians
> Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’
> Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'
> David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective'
#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society lectures for early 2026 - RHS
The Royal Historical Society begins its 2026 programme of lectures on Friday 6 February when Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) will speak on ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Que...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Booking for the first @royalhistsoc.org Lectures of 2026 is now available: bit.ly/48N0CCY
> Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’
> Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'
> David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective'
#Skystorians
> Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’
> Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'
> David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective'
#Skystorians
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
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NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Wolverhampton School of Art (1966-70) has just been Grade II listed!
The decision saves the brutalist building from a proposed demolition; it follows a listing application by C20 and a vigorous local campaign led by artists, staff and students at the school.
The decision saves the brutalist building from a proposed demolition; it follows a listing application by C20 and a vigorous local campaign led by artists, staff and students at the school.
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Wolverhampton School of Art (1966-70) has just been Grade II listed!
The decision saves the brutalist building from a proposed demolition; it follows a listing application by C20 and a vigorous local campaign led by artists, staff and students at the school.
The decision saves the brutalist building from a proposed demolition; it follows a listing application by C20 and a vigorous local campaign led by artists, staff and students at the school.
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How history is done at Cambridge >
Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession.
Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️
Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession.
Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How history is done at Cambridge >
Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession.
Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️
Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession.
Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️
Now available: @camhistory.bsky.social anniversary lectures in original video and revised texts @historicaljnl.bsky.social, both found at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/how-his.... Not just about Cambridge but about the development of History: as a profession, a degree subject, a literature.
How history is done at Cambridge | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
www.hist.cam.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now available: @camhistory.bsky.social anniversary lectures in original video and revised texts @historicaljnl.bsky.social, both found at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/how-his.... Not just about Cambridge but about the development of History: as a profession, a degree subject, a literature.
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I would like to have words with Lord Viscount Stormant&the Earl of Hillsborough. They denied Henry Laurens the use of ink when he was in the Tower of London 1780-2, meaning his diary is written in pencil. Did their Lordships not consider how difficult this would be for historians to read?
December 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I would like to have words with Lord Viscount Stormant&the Earl of Hillsborough. They denied Henry Laurens the use of ink when he was in the Tower of London 1780-2, meaning his diary is written in pencil. Did their Lordships not consider how difficult this would be for historians to read?
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So much commentary on the right is just people making up stuff to get angry about.
No idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
So much commentary on the right is just people making up stuff to get angry about.
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In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
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Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
Obituary: Nick Salvatore - The Ithaca Voice
Nick Salvatore, 82, of Ithaca, New York, died on Saturday, November 29th after a period of declining health. He passed away peacefully, listening to music he loved and comforted by […]
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December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
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🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
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London (population 9 million) has had fewer murders year-to-date[1] than Birmingham, Alabama (population 200k)[2]
[1]: www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
[2]: www.bhamwiki.com/w/2025_Birmi...
[1]: www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
[2]: www.bhamwiki.com/w/2025_Birmi...
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
London (population 9 million) has had fewer murders year-to-date[1] than Birmingham, Alabama (population 200k)[2]
[1]: www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
[2]: www.bhamwiki.com/w/2025_Birmi...
[1]: www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
[2]: www.bhamwiki.com/w/2025_Birmi...
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Nearly four in ten people in Northern Ireland hold Irish passports. So if any of them get done for possession or shoplifting or drunk and disorderly the Tories are gonna put them in a van and chuck them over the border into Monaghan or Donegal? Hahahaha, thickos. factcheckni.org/topics/europ...
Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport? - FactCheckNI
831,779 Irish passport applications (2010-19) represents 44.7% of the Northern Ireland-born population living in the UK at the time of the 2011 Censuses. On the 29 January 2020, BBC Newsline made the ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nearly four in ten people in Northern Ireland hold Irish passports. So if any of them get done for possession or shoplifting or drunk and disorderly the Tories are gonna put them in a van and chuck them over the border into Monaghan or Donegal? Hahahaha, thickos. factcheckni.org/topics/europ...
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Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
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Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
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✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.