David Finkelstein
@finkelsteind.bsky.social
Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Excited about launch of a new book series I'm co-editing for EUP, entitled Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press. Several contributions in the pipeline already, and we're on the lookout for potential additions. Get in touch! edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...
Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press
<p>The series<em> </em>showcases the latest research into Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonial and anti-colonial press and periodicals by leading and emerging scholars in the field. It offers cuttin...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Excited about launch of a new book series I'm co-editing for EUP, entitled Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press. Several contributions in the pipeline already, and we're on the lookout for potential additions. Get in touch! edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...
What a lovely gem of a book.
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What a lovely gem of a book.
This week's Hebridean flotsam and jetsam
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This week's Hebridean flotsam and jetsam
New look Edinburgh Filmhouse screen 1 ready to go!
June 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New look Edinburgh Filmhouse screen 1 ready to go!
Tonight's sunset view
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tonight's sunset view
Great quote in latest @lrb.co.uk correspondence page. "adjectives applied by George Orwell to aspects of British life between 1919 and 1939, which include ‘faecal’, ‘verminous’, ‘lousy’, ‘dim-witted’, ‘meagre’, ‘godless’, ‘sneaking’ and ‘Canadian’."
June 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Great quote in latest @lrb.co.uk correspondence page. "adjectives applied by George Orwell to aspects of British life between 1919 and 1939, which include ‘faecal’, ‘verminous’, ‘lousy’, ‘dim-witted’, ‘meagre’, ‘godless’, ‘sneaking’ and ‘Canadian’."
This week's reading. Let's see what all the fuss was about.
May 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This week's reading. Let's see what all the fuss was about.
Hello Oxford! Today's task, rummaging through old newspapers in the Bodleian Library.
May 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hello Oxford! Today's task, rummaging through old newspapers in the Bodleian Library.
Hello Berwick-upon-Tweed
May 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Hello Berwick-upon-Tweed
My news this week
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Honorary Professor awarded fellowship to study historical labour press reports on foreign migration
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May 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
My news this week
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Looking forward to reading this cracker of a novel.
April 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Looking forward to reading this cracker of a novel.
Thrilled to share that I've received a Curran Fellowship, securing funding for my upcoming research project on "British Socialist Labour Press Responses to Foreign Migrant Labour, 1890-1910." Excited for the opportunity to delve into this crucial historical topic. (rs4vp.org/awards/curra...)
The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thrilled to share that I've received a Curran Fellowship, securing funding for my upcoming research project on "British Socialist Labour Press Responses to Foreign Migrant Labour, 1890-1910." Excited for the opportunity to delve into this crucial historical topic. (rs4vp.org/awards/curra...)
A great read. Complex, keenly observed and startling in its conclusions.
April 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A great read. Complex, keenly observed and startling in its conclusions.
This week revisiting this novel published almost 25 years ago. Still a great read!
March 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This week revisiting this novel published almost 25 years ago. Still a great read!
A busy couple of days in store for me in Florence. Grateful for the invitation to be here.
March 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A busy couple of days in store for me in Florence. Grateful for the invitation to be here.
Passport control line in Schiphol Airport this morning for UK passengers flying to European destinations, stretching several hundred feet. Meanwhile EU citizens sailing through. That's the famous Brexit dividend in action I see.
March 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Passport control line in Schiphol Airport this morning for UK passengers flying to European destinations, stretching several hundred feet. Meanwhile EU citizens sailing through. That's the famous Brexit dividend in action I see.
Interesting and compelling study of an energetic set of journalists who reported on and shaped our understanding of the world in the mid-20th century
February 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Interesting and compelling study of an energetic set of journalists who reported on and shaped our understanding of the world in the mid-20th century
Nicely researched historical novel set in Elizabethan London theatre world. Good pacing, from co-founder of 1990s supergroup Suede, Mat Osman
January 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Nicely researched historical novel set in Elizabethan London theatre world. Good pacing, from co-founder of 1990s supergroup Suede, Mat Osman
Pleased to moderate this digital book launch session hosted by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, covering my co-edited volume on the Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals. Featuring lightning talks from 5 of our contributors.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) | In what has to be a record for me, a recording of our inaugural #RSVPDigEv for the year, hosted earlier today, is now live on YouTube | Facebook
In what has to be a record for me, a recording of our inaugural #RSVPDigEv for the year, hosted earlier today, is now live on YouTube!
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We kicked off the year celebrating the launch of the...
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January 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Pleased to moderate this digital book launch session hosted by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, covering my co-edited volume on the Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals. Featuring lightning talks from 5 of our contributors.
www.facebook.com/groups/49871...
www.facebook.com/groups/49871...
Last Hebridean walk of winter season. Hello curious seals!
January 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Last Hebridean walk of winter season. Hello curious seals!
Hebridean calmness 2025
January 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hebridean calmness 2025
Happy new year 2025 to all!
January 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Happy new year 2025 to all!
Hebridean flotsam and jetsam
December 27, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Hebridean flotsam and jetsam
A beautifully written narrative, set in small town Ireland of 1962, seasonally appropriate, of love, loss, redemption and words unsaid.
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
A beautifully written narrative, set in small town Ireland of 1962, seasonally appropriate, of love, loss, redemption and words unsaid.