Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
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Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
The man who accelerated his car into a crowd of people in Liverpool admits simply to having “lost his temper.” The most recent example of what the Zetkin Collective called the “great driving right show” - the political, social and environmental debasement of the car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The man who accelerated his car into a crowd of people in Liverpool admits simply to having “lost his temper.” The most recent example of what the Zetkin Collective called the “great driving right show” - the political, social and environmental debasement of the car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
New @thedigradio.bsky.social, the left communist-democratic socialist synthesis you’ve been waiting for: it’s my ecumenical and anti-sectarian interview with Malcolm Harris on his lovely book What’s Left. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/what...
What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left...
www.thedigradio.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
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Not just for Scousers. For anyone interested in 20C Britain - and in a great city. #Liverpool
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Not just for Scousers. For anyone interested in 20C Britain - and in a great city. #Liverpool
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For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
So cool that the absolute ascendancy of banal reactionary historical platitudes is coterminous with the extinction level event unfolding in history departments on both sides of the Atlantic. www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
Let's hear it for The Rest is History
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
www.newstatesman.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So cool that the absolute ascendancy of banal reactionary historical platitudes is coterminous with the extinction level event unfolding in history departments on both sides of the Atlantic. www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
As more time passes, the thing that becomes historically interesting about the Rivers of Blood speech is not that it was said, but that it engendered such opprobrium. If Powell was alive today that speech would be delivered on Question Time to millions and be greeted with silent tacit approval.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As more time passes, the thing that becomes historically interesting about the Rivers of Blood speech is not that it was said, but that it engendered such opprobrium. If Powell was alive today that speech would be delivered on Question Time to millions and be greeted with silent tacit approval.
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#4 on my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast’s look back at the year is an outstanding history book (& one of the great books about Liverpool) @samwetherell.bsky.social discussing Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain newbooksnetwork.com/liverpool-an...
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#4 on my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast’s look back at the year is an outstanding history book (& one of the great books about Liverpool) @samwetherell.bsky.social discussing Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain newbooksnetwork.com/liverpool-an...
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Today’s news reminds me of @samwetherell.bsky.social’s excellent chapter on Hillsborough in his history of Liverpool (an excellent book, but I ripped the Band-Aid off and read about the football first)
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today’s news reminds me of @samwetherell.bsky.social’s excellent chapter on Hillsborough in his history of Liverpool (an excellent book, but I ripped the Band-Aid off and read about the football first)
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Wonderful, urgent essay by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the recognition and politicisation of care work in the long shadow of Wages for Housework. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wonderful, urgent essay by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the recognition and politicisation of care work in the long shadow of Wages for Housework. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Lovely sighting of @lauracforster.bsky.social’s Friends in Common in the Scheltema bookshop in Amsterdam. Come for the sociale wetenschappen, stay for the friendship.
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lovely sighting of @lauracforster.bsky.social’s Friends in Common in the Scheltema bookshop in Amsterdam. Come for the sociale wetenschappen, stay for the friendship.
Dutch tourist shops are inventing objects you could never believe.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dutch tourist shops are inventing objects you could never believe.
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Dutch friends! A reminder that I’ll be talking Liverpool and the remaking of port cities with a fantastic panel of scholars in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It will also be livestreamed. aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...
Port Cities: Racism, Urbanism and Resistance - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies - ACES - University of Amsterdam
This is the Amsterdam book launch of Sam Wetherell’s award-winning book, 'Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain' (Bloomsbury, 2025). The book explores deindustrialization, racial divides, decolonisati...
aces.uva.nl
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Dutch friends! A reminder that I’ll be talking Liverpool and the remaking of port cities with a fantastic panel of scholars in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It will also be livestreamed. aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...
Almost everyone I know under 40 is more radical now than they were at 18. To grow up, have kids, fight for stable housing and work in our present moment is to confront head on the scale of the economic and ecological crises we now face. Moderation with age was a generationally specific thing.
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Almost everyone I know under 40 is more radical now than they were at 18. To grow up, have kids, fight for stable housing and work in our present moment is to confront head on the scale of the economic and ecological crises we now face. Moderation with age was a generationally specific thing.
Dutch friends! A reminder that I’ll be talking Liverpool and the remaking of port cities with a fantastic panel of scholars in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It will also be livestreamed. aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...
Port Cities: Racism, Urbanism and Resistance - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies - ACES - University of Amsterdam
This is the Amsterdam book launch of Sam Wetherell’s award-winning book, 'Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain' (Bloomsbury, 2025). The book explores deindustrialization, racial divides, decolonisati...
aces.uva.nl
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Dutch friends! A reminder that I’ll be talking Liverpool and the remaking of port cities with a fantastic panel of scholars in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It will also be livestreamed. aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...
As always, the reference point for Britain's intensifying border violence is not elsewhere - Nazi Germany, ICE, Orban whatever. It is Britain's own history.
Wild how Britain can rampage across the world for much of the 20th century, incarcerating hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in Kenya and Malaya and then two generations later MPs like Stella Creasy can say that the arbitrary detention of refugee children is not "the British way forward."
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
As always, the reference point for Britain's intensifying border violence is not elsewhere - Nazi Germany, ICE, Orban whatever. It is Britain's own history.
Wild how Britain can rampage across the world for much of the 20th century, incarcerating hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in Kenya and Malaya and then two generations later MPs like Stella Creasy can say that the arbitrary detention of refugee children is not "the British way forward."
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Wild how Britain can rampage across the world for much of the 20th century, incarcerating hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in Kenya and Malaya and then two generations later MPs like Stella Creasy can say that the arbitrary detention of refugee children is not "the British way forward."
You know the government are in serious trouble when even the Today Programme are defending the rights of refugee children.
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
You know the government are in serious trouble when even the Today Programme are defending the rights of refugee children.
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Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!
Vote for the party that steals the watches and jewellery of refugees in order to keep the party that will steal the watches, jewellery and wedding rings of refugees out.
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Vote for the party that steals the watches and jewellery of refugees in order to keep the party that will steal the watches, jewellery and wedding rings of refugees out.
Alex Norris knowingly speaking misleading incendiary nonsense. The UK spends 0.014% of its budget on refugees. This is aside from the net economic benefits of migration. Painting this in zero sum economic terms is absurd - the cruelty is the point and these people should be haunted forever by this.
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Alex Norris knowingly speaking misleading incendiary nonsense. The UK spends 0.014% of its budget on refugees. This is aside from the net economic benefits of migration. Painting this in zero sum economic terms is absurd - the cruelty is the point and these people should be haunted forever by this.
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You're a Labour MP in a Labour government and these are the policies Labour are pursuing. If you're opposed to it, put your name to it or piss off.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
You're a Labour MP in a Labour government and these are the policies Labour are pursuing. If you're opposed to it, put your name to it or piss off.
Sorry but the Troy Parott tweets are better in the other place.
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sorry but the Troy Parott tweets are better in the other place.