Laura Beers
@fieryparticle.bsky.social
Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
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Excited to see draft programme for @thenacbs.bsky.social #nacbs2025 conference is available 📢. So many fascinating papers & grateful to #LSBU for funding my panel participation alongside stellar line-up 🤩 incl: @ruthdav.bsky.social @teadevotee.bsky.social @fieryparticle.bsky.social. #womensactivism.
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Excited to see draft programme for @thenacbs.bsky.social #nacbs2025 conference is available 📢. So many fascinating papers & grateful to #LSBU for funding my panel participation alongside stellar line-up 🤩 incl: @ruthdav.bsky.social @teadevotee.bsky.social @fieryparticle.bsky.social. #womensactivism.
Excited to add A Bright Cold Day to my summer reading list! @nathanwaddell.bsky.social
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July 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to add A Bright Cold Day to my summer reading list! @nathanwaddell.bsky.social
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Orwell’s Ghosts by Laura Beers is only $5.99 - BookBub
1984 hit shelves 75 years ago and went on to become one of history s most influential, widely read and misunderstood classics. Now, in the context of today s rapidly changing world, this New Yorker Be...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective.
Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright
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Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright
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April 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective.
Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright
sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/r...
Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright
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Made me proud to be a Princetonian 🐅✊
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 04/09/2025 · 39m
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April 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Made me proud to be a Princetonian 🐅✊
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Congrats to Laura Beers! ORWELL'S GHOSTS is the 2025 winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize awarded to books that "improve democratic governance through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy." wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Yes, come join us DC people! I’m really looking forward to talking about Mary’s excellent new book
Join me and @fieryparticle.bsky.social at East City Bookshop next Tuesday at 7 pm to chat about Pushback! register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-eve...
April 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yes, come join us DC people! I’m really looking forward to talking about Mary’s excellent new book
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🎉 Congratulations to @fieryparticle.bsky.social for #OrwellsGhosts being chosen as a finalist by @latimes.com
Book Prize for #Biography latimes.com/bookprizes25
Book Prize for #Biography latimes.com/bookprizes25
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Few writers are as clear and as misunderstood as Orwell, writes Lyndsey Jenkins in her review of 'Orwell's Ghosts. Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century', by @fieryparticle.bsky.social's
#Books #BookReview #Orwell
#Books #BookReview #Orwell
Review: Orwell's Ghosts. Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century, by Laura Beers
Few writers are as clear and as misunderstood as Orwell.
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January 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Few writers are as clear and as misunderstood as Orwell, writes Lyndsey Jenkins in her review of 'Orwell's Ghosts. Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century', by @fieryparticle.bsky.social's
#Books #BookReview #Orwell
#Books #BookReview #Orwell
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My annual Guest List podcast is live! Go check out #book recs from 2024 pod-guest like @zibaldoni.bsky.social, @fieryparticle.bsky.social, @birkerts.bsky.social, @leelacorman.bsky.social, @bcdreyer.social, @drooker.bsky.social, & more (incl. me!), so CHECK IT OUT: chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest...
The Guest List 2024
We asked the past year’s podcast-guests for the favorite books they read in 2024 and the books they hope to read in 2025 for our special year-end Guest List episode! Twenty-two guests partici…
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December 23, 2024 at 12:51 AM
My annual Guest List podcast is live! Go check out #book recs from 2024 pod-guest like @zibaldoni.bsky.social, @fieryparticle.bsky.social, @birkerts.bsky.social, @leelacorman.bsky.social, @bcdreyer.social, @drooker.bsky.social, & more (incl. me!), so CHECK IT OUT: chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest...
I’m really proud to have Orwell’s Ghosts included in the BBC History Magazine’s annual Best Books List. Thank you @leahredmondchang.bsky.social for the lovely review.
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Best history books 2024: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
It’s been another excellent year for history publishing, with new books that offer fresh insights into the past and help us make sense of the present. Here, a panel of historians recommend the titles ...
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December 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I’m really proud to have Orwell’s Ghosts included in the BBC History Magazine’s annual Best Books List. Thank you @leahredmondchang.bsky.social for the lovely review.
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The New Books countdown is almost as exciting as opening our Lego advent calendar. Proud to be included
December 12, 2024 at 1:12 PM
The New Books countdown is almost as exciting as opening our Lego advent calendar. Proud to be included
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(TW) #OTD 1910, 'Black Friday'. 300 women's suffrage campaigners marched outside Parliament before being attacked, and in some instances sexually assaulted, by male bystanders and police.
One of the most infamous images from the day later appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
One of the most infamous images from the day later appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
November 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
(TW) #OTD 1910, 'Black Friday'. 300 women's suffrage campaigners marched outside Parliament before being attacked, and in some instances sexually assaulted, by male bystanders and police.
One of the most infamous images from the day later appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
One of the most infamous images from the day later appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social and I have a new podcast episode on Social Democracy featuring @eunicegoes.bsky.social . Check it out below or on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
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Social Democracy with Eunice Goes - Progressive Britain
Host of the Progressive Britain History Project, Steven Fielding and Laura Beers, speak to author of 2024's Social Democracy, Eunice Goes.
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November 17, 2024 at 9:56 PM
@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social and I have a new podcast episode on Social Democracy featuring @eunicegoes.bsky.social . Check it out below or on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
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I’m not good with change, but the time has come!
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 PM
I’m not good with change, but the time has come!
I just got a message from my son’s middle school that they are going to start their health unit. I wonder how much it will resemble my 6th grade health class, which consisted of watching Degrassi High and 21 Jump Street episodes to learn not to get pregnant or do drugs 🤔
September 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM
I just got a message from my son’s middle school that they are going to start their health unit. I wonder how much it will resemble my 6th grade health class, which consisted of watching Degrassi High and 21 Jump Street episodes to learn not to get pregnant or do drugs 🤔
I am on here, and excited to announce that Orwell’s Ghosts has not one but two covers (UK left; US right). Coming next summer to a bookstore near you
September 20, 2023 at 10:02 PM
I am on here, and excited to announce that Orwell’s Ghosts has not one but two covers (UK left; US right). Coming next summer to a bookstore near you