Look what just arrived! An intellectual treat in the form of @singingarchives.bsky.social’s new social history of the modern voice.

I’ve just returned from Vienna, where I have been reminded that the politics of European tariffs are not a new thing.

The owl has no idea of the real total.

Delighted to receive my copy of this excellent book honouring Jon Parry. My chapter is about C19th efforts to distinguish more sharply between law and politics. This was fundamental to a distinctively British form of liberal governmentality and created our modern concept of ‘politics’.

21 years ago I became a fellow of Girton College. Emily Davies doesn’t look impressed.