Clive Webb
@clivewebb.bsky.social
Historian and author, University of Sussex. Regular contributor to Shindig! magazine.
I am one of the speakers at this literary event on Saturday: shorehamwordfest.com/events/susse...
Shoreham Wordfest
Shoreham Wordfest - Celebrating literature, arts, and culture in Shoreham-by-Sea
shorehamwordfest.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am one of the speakers at this literary event on Saturday: shorehamwordfest.com/events/susse...
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I was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'The World this Weekend' show today about this week's coming political crisis in France
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BBC Radio 4 - The World This Weekend
Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'The World this Weekend' show today about this week's coming political crisis in France
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Still feels like summer in the garden
August 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Still feels like summer in the garden
Walking in West Sussex
August 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Walking in West Sussex
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My latest here for Britain at War Magazine on 250 years of US-UK relations. Read it here (behind a paywall) or get a copy of the magazine at your local newsagent: www.keymilitary.com/article/swor...
SWORN ENEMIES TO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
REVOLUTION 250 Dr Sam Edwards’ timeline explores the ups and...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My latest here for Britain at War Magazine on 250 years of US-UK relations. Read it here (behind a paywall) or get a copy of the magazine at your local newsagent: www.keymilitary.com/article/swor...
I discuss what would have happened had the USA not entered the First World War and also the Allied offensive in North Africa during the Second World War in the new issue of History of War magazine.
May 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I discuss what would have happened had the USA not entered the First World War and also the Allied offensive in North Africa during the Second World War in the new issue of History of War magazine.
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On Giles Brown's Let's Talk - from 10.00CET - Stephen Jakobi with 'The Baby Farm Murderer: The Story of Amelia Dyer, the Victorian Serial Killer', and @clivewebb.bsky.social on 'Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial'
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
On Giles Brown's Let's Talk - from 10.00CET - Stephen Jakobi with 'The Baby Farm Murderer: The Story of Amelia Dyer, the Victorian Serial Killer', and @clivewebb.bsky.social on 'Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial'
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My new Substack is out. A run through a bit of American history in the English countryside: runninghistorian.substack.com/p/the-kenned...
The Kennedy Curse
A Wartime Tragedy in the Skies of Suffolk
runninghistorian.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
My new Substack is out. A run through a bit of American history in the English countryside: runninghistorian.substack.com/p/the-kenned...
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Picked myself up a copy of this today by @clivewebb.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck in!
February 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Picked myself up a copy of this today by @clivewebb.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck in!
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Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820: From the Night Watch to Proactive Policing
www.history.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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The new issue of Shindig is out now!
I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.
I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.
February 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The new issue of Shindig is out now!
I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.
I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.
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Where I talk about ‘everything you wanted to know’ about British television history.
(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)
On @historyextra.bsky.social
(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)
On @historyextra.bsky.social
British TV history: everything you wanted to know
Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 26/01/2025 · 52m
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February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Where I talk about ‘everything you wanted to know’ about British television history.
(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)
On @historyextra.bsky.social
(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)
On @historyextra.bsky.social
My book, Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial, is in shops from today:
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
Vietdamned - Profile Books
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February 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My book, Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial, is in shops from today:
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
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Excited to say that the details for this year's Transatlantic Studies Association conference are now confirmed. We're meeting in the beautiful city of Lisbon, over 14-16 July. Full details (inc. the cfp) available here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/tsa-2025
TSA 2025 — Transatlantic Studies Association
TSA 2025
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January 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Excited to say that the details for this year's Transatlantic Studies Association conference are now confirmed. We're meeting in the beautiful city of Lisbon, over 14-16 July. Full details (inc. the cfp) available here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/tsa-2025
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At last! Marcus Garvey is pardoned. My take in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on removing the stigma from Marcus Garvey's name. I hoped Obama would have done so but he bottled it. This week Joe Biden did the right thing!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...
Joe Biden was right to pardon Marcus Garvey
In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of working-c...
www.spectator.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
At last! Marcus Garvey is pardoned. My take in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on removing the stigma from Marcus Garvey's name. I hoped Obama would have done so but he bottled it. This week Joe Biden did the right thing!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...
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My first book - Terror and terroir: the winegrowers of the Languedoc & modern France - is about what happens when a region of monoculture goes through an economic transition, & the intersections of regional, national, & European identities & structures
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
Manchester University Press - Terror and terroir
Terror and terroir - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Terror and terroir by Andrew W. M. Smith
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October 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
My first book - Terror and terroir: the winegrowers of the Languedoc & modern France - is about what happens when a region of monoculture goes through an economic transition, & the intersections of regional, national, & European identities & structures
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
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The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.
January 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.
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My latest Substack is now out. All about one of my favourite hill runs up near the Lancashire/Cumbria border. You can read it (free!) here: #running open.substack.com/pub/runningh...
The Knott
A Run with a View
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January 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
My latest Substack is now out. All about one of my favourite hill runs up near the Lancashire/Cumbria border. You can read it (free!) here: #running open.substack.com/pub/runningh...
The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.
January 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.
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Exciting times for scholars of #WW2 #internment British Internment & the Internment of Britons is now out in paperback! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Get yourself a copy at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-i...
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social
British Internment and the Internment of Britons
This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the c…
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January 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Exciting times for scholars of #WW2 #internment British Internment & the Internment of Britons is now out in paperback! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Get yourself a copy at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-i...
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social
I have a new book out on 6th February with Profile Books that tells the story of how Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals tried to hold the US government to account for war crimes in Vietnam.
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
Vietdamned - Profile Books
profilebooks.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I have a new book out on 6th February with Profile Books that tells the story of how Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals tried to hold the US government to account for war crimes in Vietnam.
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...
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Pick up a multi-award-winning book if you are out Christmas shopping this weekend.
December 7, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Pick up a multi-award-winning book if you are out Christmas shopping this weekend.
I am one of the guests discussing American socialist leader Eugene Debs on Radio 4 at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Five time socialist presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs picked by Reginald D Hunter.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I am one of the guests discussing American socialist leader Eugene Debs on Radio 4 at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...