Allan Burnett
@allanburnett.bsky.social
Academic historian. Apocalyptic imaginaries. Media history. Media and war. Pedagogical and political uses of war memory. Linköping LiU. Author of history books for children & dad of 3.
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Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
Hampden Park has hosted seismic, spine-tingling occasions in a storied history dating back to 1903. Add this one to the list. Scotland’s long, long wait is over. Steve Clarke, Andy Robertson, Scott McTominay, John McGinn; you shall go to the ball. So too Kieran Tierney, whose curler from 22 yards seemed to have sealed victory by the odd goal in five before Kenny McLean produced an even more spectacular fourth.
Almost three decades of frustration, during which Scotland have peered towards men’s World Cups from afar, were obliterated as Denmark fell to defeat in stoppage time. Grown men in kilts shed tears. Denmark’s participation in next summer’s jamboree depends on March playoffs. Clarke and a suddenly giddy football nation can start making concrete plans. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
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It began with a small idea and a few hunches. It grew through years of research in archives and libraries, reading the work of other great scholars, and seemingly endless writing and re-writing. Now it is finally published!
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820.
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820.
Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
yalebooks.yale.edu
August 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It began with a small idea and a few hunches. It grew through years of research in archives and libraries, reading the work of other great scholars, and seemingly endless writing and re-writing. Now it is finally published!
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820.
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820.
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Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
yalebooks.yale.edu
August 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress
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Got a new piece out, for those of you interested in urban warfare and military epistemics
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
The Emergence of a Military Urban in and of War
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates once again the vulnerability and significance of cities in war. In this article, and with inspiration from Ian Hacking’s historical ontology, I dra...
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Got a new piece out, for those of you interested in urban warfare and military epistemics
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
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Mitt senaste fynd på Bukowskis, Ellen Jolins Borgholms slottsruin från 1900.
April 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Mitt senaste fynd på Bukowskis, Ellen Jolins Borgholms slottsruin från 1900.
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fascinating thread on Janet Lane-Claypon and her pioneering use of retrospective cohort design, controls for confounding, t-tests & case-control methods - excerpted from a new book by Adam Kucharski
March 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
fascinating thread on Janet Lane-Claypon and her pioneering use of retrospective cohort design, controls for confounding, t-tests & case-control methods - excerpted from a new book by Adam Kucharski
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IMH Seminar Alert - 2nd April 2025
Dr Maria Småberg (Lund University) will present her historical research into "Swedish Aid to Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s."
Time: 15:00
Place: In Person and Zoom
For the link DM or email: mha.fhs@gmail.com
@forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
#Skystorians
Dr Maria Småberg (Lund University) will present her historical research into "Swedish Aid to Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s."
Time: 15:00
Place: In Person and Zoom
For the link DM or email: mha.fhs@gmail.com
@forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
#Skystorians
Forskarseminarium i militärhistoria: Frictional homebuilding - Swedish aid to Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s
Välkommen till militärhistoriska avdelningens forskarseminarium den 2 april.
www.fhs.se
March 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
IMH Seminar Alert - 2nd April 2025
Dr Maria Småberg (Lund University) will present her historical research into "Swedish Aid to Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s."
Time: 15:00
Place: In Person and Zoom
For the link DM or email: mha.fhs@gmail.com
@forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
#Skystorians
Dr Maria Småberg (Lund University) will present her historical research into "Swedish Aid to Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s."
Time: 15:00
Place: In Person and Zoom
For the link DM or email: mha.fhs@gmail.com
@forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
#Skystorians
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When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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As John said of his forthcoming work on Sun Tzu:
"I am close to finishing my “Sun Tzu Commentary.” It includes a new translation, but my pact with the reader is this: you may not agree with all of my translation choices, but you will at least know WHY you disagree."
Link via: mha.fhs@gmail.com
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"I am close to finishing my “Sun Tzu Commentary.” It includes a new translation, but my pact with the reader is this: you may not agree with all of my translation choices, but you will at least know WHY you disagree."
Link via: mha.fhs@gmail.com
🗃️
March 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
As John said of his forthcoming work on Sun Tzu:
"I am close to finishing my “Sun Tzu Commentary.” It includes a new translation, but my pact with the reader is this: you may not agree with all of my translation choices, but you will at least know WHY you disagree."
Link via: mha.fhs@gmail.com
🗃️
"I am close to finishing my “Sun Tzu Commentary.” It includes a new translation, but my pact with the reader is this: you may not agree with all of my translation choices, but you will at least know WHY you disagree."
Link via: mha.fhs@gmail.com
🗃️
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At North Lanarkshire Archives we are delighted to have received a small collection relating to Mollins Farm (Cadder) and the Laing family. It includes 2 diaries of trips to Canada by John Laing in the 1880s & a farm diary from the 1860s which details every day tasks on the farm.
March 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At North Lanarkshire Archives we are delighted to have received a small collection relating to Mollins Farm (Cadder) and the Laing family. It includes 2 diaries of trips to Canada by John Laing in the 1880s & a farm diary from the 1860s which details every day tasks on the farm.
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It it finally here, my and Svante Norrhem's brand new book about knowledge, mobility, negotiations and learning among the servants of the early modern Swedish aristocracy. Thanks to @routledgehistory.bsky.social and to series editors @svendupre.bsky.social and Wijnand Mijnhardt!
Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community
Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in ...
www.routledge.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It it finally here, my and Svante Norrhem's brand new book about knowledge, mobility, negotiations and learning among the servants of the early modern Swedish aristocracy. Thanks to @routledgehistory.bsky.social and to series editors @svendupre.bsky.social and Wijnand Mijnhardt!
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Seminar Alert!
We are honoured that @johnfsullivan.bsky.social will present his work on Sun Tzu and the importance of accurate translation & context for the use of military practitioners, historians & linguists. DM for Zoom link
19 March at 15:00 CET
A taster: thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
We are honoured that @johnfsullivan.bsky.social will present his work on Sun Tzu and the importance of accurate translation & context for the use of military practitioners, historians & linguists. DM for Zoom link
19 March at 15:00 CET
A taster: thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
Sun Tzu’s Fighting Words
These twin issues of ambiguous translation and lack of historical context combine to create an environment ripe for distortion. Nowhere is this problem more prevalent than in our amorphous belief that...
thestrategybridge.org
March 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Seminar Alert!
We are honoured that @johnfsullivan.bsky.social will present his work on Sun Tzu and the importance of accurate translation & context for the use of military practitioners, historians & linguists. DM for Zoom link
19 March at 15:00 CET
A taster: thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
We are honoured that @johnfsullivan.bsky.social will present his work on Sun Tzu and the importance of accurate translation & context for the use of military practitioners, historians & linguists. DM for Zoom link
19 March at 15:00 CET
A taster: thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
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Join us on Monday (18.00-19.00) for Marie Mianowski's seminar: Tracing Sarah Mary Fitton (1795–1874). Marie will be discussing her research on Fitton, an Irish born botanist, discussing both individual hurdles she faced & systemic difficulties that were typical for women scientists in the 19th c
March 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Join us on Monday (18.00-19.00) for Marie Mianowski's seminar: Tracing Sarah Mary Fitton (1795–1874). Marie will be discussing her research on Fitton, an Irish born botanist, discussing both individual hurdles she faced & systemic difficulties that were typical for women scientists in the 19th c
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These are four-year, paid positions and in a great department. PhD students have access to benefits like paid vacation & parental leave. International applicants are very welcome! Please share widely and Tell your best students and recent graduates to apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
These are four-year, paid positions and in a great department. PhD students have access to benefits like paid vacation & parental leave. International applicants are very welcome! Please share widely and Tell your best students and recent graduates to apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April
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I have the pleasure to collaborate with @hannahod.bsky.social on Lars Montin's colonial travel to Sapmi in 1749. Our first article is now available in the History of Anthropology Review (part of section ed by Uchôa, Müller-Wille & Mercer, on Histories of Ethnoscience: histanthro.org/notes/traces...
Special Focus: Histories of Ethnoscience
HAR editors are pleased to bring you this Special Focus Section, guest edited by Raphael Uchôa, Staffan Müller-Wille and Harriet Mercer. The pieces in this collection will be published on a rolling…
histanthro.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I have the pleasure to collaborate with @hannahod.bsky.social on Lars Montin's colonial travel to Sapmi in 1749. Our first article is now available in the History of Anthropology Review (part of section ed by Uchôa, Müller-Wille & Mercer, on Histories of Ethnoscience: histanthro.org/notes/traces...
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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.”
Opinion | A Day of American Infamy
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.”
As this analysis makes clear, it is not about the suit
It's about the mask
It applies equally to individuals who turn up very casually in formal workplace settings in an attempt to hide a personality that is no less an authoritarian bully as had they been suited up over oxford shoes
It's about the mask
It applies equally to individuals who turn up very casually in formal workplace settings in an attempt to hide a personality that is no less an authoritarian bully as had they been suited up over oxford shoes
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As this analysis makes clear, it is not about the suit
It's about the mask
It applies equally to individuals who turn up very casually in formal workplace settings in an attempt to hide a personality that is no less an authoritarian bully as had they been suited up over oxford shoes
It's about the mask
It applies equally to individuals who turn up very casually in formal workplace settings in an attempt to hide a personality that is no less an authoritarian bully as had they been suited up over oxford shoes
This analysis is spot on
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This analysis is spot on
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Perfect treasure trove to start your day!
The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc.
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
映像でみる明治の日本
動画一覧｜映像でみる明治の日本 The Meiji Period on Film - 祝！日本映画120年！「映像でみる明治の日本」を公開しました。芸能、文化、記録など多様な映像をご覧ください。
meiji.filmarchives.jp
February 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Perfect treasure trove to start your day!