📢New article out now in JBS!

📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

““It would be hard to identify a more apt emblem than Wong Kim Ark for the strange late-nineteenth-century career of Demolombe's brainchild, the soli/sanguinis binary.” It’s hard to remember so perfectly timed a historical article. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎙️ Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Miranda Melcher for the New Book Network. 📡 🤓 Check out our conversation about histories of international thought "without men" here:
newbooksnetwork.com/erased

Book discussion - The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism

If you are new to the HPC platform and don’t know where to start, why not try out our ‘lucky dip’ function. This allows you to view a random sample of material from across our different collections and to find yourself with unexpected people in unexpected places. 😀

hpcbristol.net/explore

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture?

We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.

Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians

Something I wrote for the LRB on how Who’s Who - and loose talk of ‘elites’ and ‘establishments’ - is not a good guide to who has power in modern Britain. But you knew that anyway…

I’ve shared this before, but was thinking again about Daniel Defert’s memories of Foucault’s working routines in an interview - "Christmas day without writing, that was impossible!" .https://progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/25/foucaults-christmas-2/