Dr. William A. Booth
@williamabooth.bsky.social
Historian of Latin America, especially Mexico. Armchair for cats, short-order chef for children.
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Action taking place now at UCL to condemn complicity with GoogleDeepMind in genocide in Gaza.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Action taking place now at UCL to condemn complicity with GoogleDeepMind in genocide in Gaza.
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End UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register!
Dates below ⬇️
Dates below ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
End UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register!
Dates below ⬇️
Dates below ⬇️
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3. 'José Revueltas and the temporalities of the Mexican 1956' by @williamabooth.bsky.social
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
3. 'José Revueltas and the temporalities of the Mexican 1956' by @williamabooth.bsky.social
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...
Reminder: this is TONIGHT!
Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.
June 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reminder: this is TONIGHT!
Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.
June 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.
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Are you interested in Mexico and its politics?
Don’t miss this panel at UCL on 7th March 2025 at 6:30 pm.
Book your tickets following the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mexico-in-...
Don’t miss this panel at UCL on 7th March 2025 at 6:30 pm.
Book your tickets following the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mexico-in-...
February 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Are you interested in Mexico and its politics?
Don’t miss this panel at UCL on 7th March 2025 at 6:30 pm.
Book your tickets following the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mexico-in-...
Don’t miss this panel at UCL on 7th March 2025 at 6:30 pm.
Book your tickets following the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mexico-in-...
Revising an article on Mexico and the ‘Global 1956’ and it’s turned into an extended essay on why José Revueltas was (often) weird and (almost always) brilliant
December 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Revising an article on Mexico and the ‘Global 1956’ and it’s turned into an extended essay on why José Revueltas was (often) weird and (almost always) brilliant
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Kohei Saito to packed audience at Japan Institute in Cologne: „it‘s great the room is so full, but you should hire some Marxist professors in German academia!“
December 9, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Kohei Saito to packed audience at Japan Institute in Cologne: „it‘s great the room is so full, but you should hire some Marxist professors in German academia!“
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My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA...
www.thedigradio.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:19 PM
My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
This was a superb event
TODAY'S EVENT: Upholding humanitarian principles in contexts of impunity with Francesca Albanese, Dr Agnès Callamard and Dr Nimer Sultany. 📢
You've still got time to register to attend online: https://buff.ly/3ZgoZnv
(Interpretation from English to Arabic and French will be available.)
You've still got time to register to attend online: https://buff.ly/3ZgoZnv
(Interpretation from English to Arabic and French will be available.)
December 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM
This was a superb event
Booth & Son, purveyors of wonky little Tudor houses
December 1, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Booth & Son, purveyors of wonky little Tudor houses
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Fascinating this need to externalise the authoritarian turn in Western countries
History has shown that the west doesn't need an other to act in the most brutal and authoritarian manner
Ignoring this is deeply counterproductive
History has shown that the west doesn't need an other to act in the most brutal and authoritarian manner
Ignoring this is deeply counterproductive
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Fascinating this need to externalise the authoritarian turn in Western countries
History has shown that the west doesn't need an other to act in the most brutal and authoritarian manner
Ignoring this is deeply counterproductive
History has shown that the west doesn't need an other to act in the most brutal and authoritarian manner
Ignoring this is deeply counterproductive
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Absurd creature
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Absurd creature
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When the edibles finally kick in.
2024 PitchingNinja Award for Best Reaction after your team hits a huge Grand Slam. 😱🏆
Winner: Kodai Senga
Winner: Kodai Senga
November 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
When the edibles finally kick in.
Done multi week reading groups on Black Jacobins which always works well. Fifth Sun too recently. Making of the English Working Class one I want to do soon.
What history books might be worth spending a whole semester reading? (I am thinking of proposing a one credit class in which first years would read only one book). 🗃️
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Done multi week reading groups on Black Jacobins which always works well. Fifth Sun too recently. Making of the English Working Class one I want to do soon.
It’s freezing so we’re sharing the furry blanket
November 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM
It’s freezing so we’re sharing the furry blanket
Bluesky follows seem to have gone wild
November 15, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Bluesky follows seem to have gone wild
Feliz navidad, pendejxs. May all oppression cease. Black lives matter, trans joy is real, and free fckn Palestine!
December 25, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Feliz navidad, pendejxs. May all oppression cease. Black lives matter, trans joy is real, and free fckn Palestine!
@amnightingale.bsky.social that is a somewhat terrifying profile pic!
December 6, 2023 at 9:22 PM
@amnightingale.bsky.social that is a somewhat terrifying profile pic!
Digital humanities impact case study
December 1, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Digital humanities impact case study
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The National Security Archive has compiled a sort of “greatest hits” of primary sources involving Kissinger. Like Nixon, Kissinger loved secretly taping calls, which is why we know about his involvement in so many crimes.
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 30, 2023 at 5:17 AM
The National Security Archive has compiled a sort of “greatest hits” of primary sources involving Kissinger. Like Nixon, Kissinger loved secretly taping calls, which is why we know about his involvement in so many crimes.
Went on TV briefly to discuss Milei - thought I’d have longer to cover the horror but here’s what I got in www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wp...
November 20, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Went on TV briefly to discuss Milei - thought I’d have longer to cover the horror but here’s what I got in www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wp...
