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Andrew Popp
@andrewpopp.bsky.social
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Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
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Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled
Red berries on a bush, grasslands, and fall birch trees. Amager Fælled, Copenhagen Leaves of grass, Amager Fælled, Copenhagen Black and white image of a dense wood of silver birch tree trunks. Amager Fælled, Copenhagen. Selfie of bearded man who has just got out of the sea. Amager Fælled, Copenhagen.
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.
Photograph of a simple chair with black metal frame and plywood seat and back rest. The chair is a model 3060 designed by Børge Mogensen.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism
Box like stacked modular social housing units in Copenhagen
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I sway outside myself
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,

Theodore Roethke, The Rose
Image of sea and buildings at sunrise, November 1st. Svanemøllen Strand, Copenhagen.
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Danish election poster pulling no punches.
Photograph of an election campaign poster for the Danish political grouping Independent Greens that reads “Stop Nazi Capitalism.”
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Absolutely fabulous new article from @llchristyll.bsky.social on what crystallised in Copenhagen in 1970.
llchristyll.bsky.social Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 12d
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is truly, wilfully abhorrent.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Who amongst us has not speculated upon what sour cola potato chips would taste like?
A photo of a bag of Kims cola sour flavour potato chips. Kims is a Danish brand.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Having just finished Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent "Kairos," I enjoyed this greatly. How we & things & time all get inscribed into each other and how, in time, we & things & time can all get lost to one another. She writes with great historical consciousness.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘They disappeared when the wall came down’: German author Jenny Erpenbeck on the objects that contain vast histories
From the drip catchers of German coffee pots to the typewriter she used for her first works, the International Booker prize-winning writer reflects on the hidden significance of everyday items
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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OTD in 1762 Jos Wedgwood wrote to Thomas Bentley about all that he hoped for in their future friendship, including, beautifully "to help me form a probable conjecture of things beyond our kenn." In 1768, they went on to form on of the most brilliant partnerships of the Industrial Revolution.
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Read all about it! Swedish Cold War exposé!
entandsoc.bsky.social Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 17d
Hot off the press! In "The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War" Rikard Westerbeg shines a light on secret collaboration between the Wallenbergs and Sweden's Cold War intelligence establishment. OA of course! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War
www.cambridge.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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I don't form a culturally coherent group even when it's just me an no-one else.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Heron is patient.
A heron stood on a rock at the edge of the water shortly before sunrise, Svanemøllen Strand, Copenhagen.
October 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reposted by Andrew Popp
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#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...
October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Really looking forward to this, experiencing an author for the first time.
A picture of the cover of an English translation of “Money to Burn,” by Danish novelist Asta Olivia Nordenhof.
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Befriending the Dead: History, Friendship, and Talking Across Time
Abstract. People in Britain are lonely; Britain is also one of the most age-segregated countries in the world. These realities create generational antagoni
academic.oup.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Really looking forward to making something from this definitely not at all terrifying cook book.
Picture of the cover of Der Venetianske Køkken by Francesco Vitagliano, depicting a masked man holding a plate carrying, I think, lettuce, a fish and two lemons. A close up of the same book cover.
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Wonderful new paper from Amrita Roy on "Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India" in @entandsoc.bsky.social
entandsoc.bsky.social Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 29d
"How has caste influenced entrepreneurship in India in the past and how does it do so in the present?" Amrita Roy sets out to answer this vital question with a fantastic new paper in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Get it Open Access here, one click away.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India
www.cambridge.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I guess I should get a move on and publish that essay on what kinds of knowledge were *really* useful to C18th entrepreneurs (and where did they get it from).
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I saw this superb movie a few months ago & am pleased to see it getting a UK theatrical release & positive review. But I take issue with this epically bad final take. Far from "gaming" anything, anyone in Souleymane's position is completely trapped in a system mercilessly stacked against them.
October 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Got a food waste box on Wed: all the veg for a stir fry; tomatoes for a marinara; kale, corn, & pots in a kale & white bean soup; eggplant in a Turkish lentil soup; cucumber in tzaatziki; cabbage for malfouf. Still have lots of potatoes. Yippee for us! But our food systems are broken
Saucepan of Turkish sour lentil soup with eggplant and spinach. Preparing malfouf - Lebanese stuffed cabbage rolls. Cooked cabbage rolls ready to be baked in a tomato sauce.
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Of course it's the batshit techno-futurism & #entrepreneurialismasdiscourse as the only route to salvation that get all the headlines, but it's just another Gospel of Wealth. Here, Thiel says the quiet part out loud. Like so many of the very rich, he simply doesn't believe he should pay taxes
October 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Business and management history folks, and those in org studies, any suggestions for how to approach what looks like a fascinating source?
simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · Oct 10
I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.
Excerpt from handwritten zine-style text entitled "Burglar's editorial" Hand-drawn comic panel showing workman thumping a desk and shouting "I demand shorter hours" - the caption reads, "whadoya want then = fifty nine minutes" Hand-drawn caricature of Ernest Bevin, reading "Bevin says - even Russians read this paper"
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM