James
@jamesab2.bsky.social
Historian and lecturer; enjoys cooking and baking. Manchester/Sheffield
Pinned
Please, just a crumb of hope and a modicum of my life getting better.
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Please, just a crumb of hope and a modicum of my life getting better.
Reposted by James
Have a read of our recent thought-provoking article 'How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?' by James Brocklesby: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?
This paper examines the historical, administrative, and socio-political history of Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, which was compounded by the external threat of Frenc...
doi.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Have a read of our recent thought-provoking article 'How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?' by James Brocklesby: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by James
🎓 In a new article James Brocklesby asks "How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?" "The study contextualises Pitcairn’s position as a ‘problematic remnant’ of empire, [also] exploring ... the implications of nuclear testing in its vicinity".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?
This paper examines the historical, administrative, and socio-political history of Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, which was compounded by the external threat of Frenc...
www.tandfonline.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎓 In a new article James Brocklesby asks "How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?" "The study contextualises Pitcairn’s position as a ‘problematic remnant’ of empire, [also] exploring ... the implications of nuclear testing in its vicinity".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m giving an (online) paper next Tuesday at the Institute of Historical Research. If anyone is interested in smaller territories, BOTs and decolonisation, feel free to join.
www.history.ac.uk/events/echoe...
www.history.ac.uk/events/echoe...
February 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I’m giving an (online) paper next Tuesday at the Institute of Historical Research. If anyone is interested in smaller territories, BOTs and decolonisation, feel free to join.
www.history.ac.uk/events/echoe...
www.history.ac.uk/events/echoe...
Need to use this app much more. Anyway, here’s me and Hugo.
January 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Need to use this app much more. Anyway, here’s me and Hugo.
Need to stop buying cookbooks…
January 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Need to stop buying cookbooks…
Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).
December 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).
Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).
December 20, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).
Someone on Masterchef just cooked and dedicated a dish to Lady Gaga…
December 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Someone on Masterchef just cooked and dedicated a dish to Lady Gaga…
Your 30s are great they said
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Your 30s are great they said
Watched the Martha Stewart documentary; didn’t really get it before but kinda stan now.
Love to spend my dotage tending a garden and getting high with Snoop Dogg.
Love to spend my dotage tending a garden and getting high with Snoop Dogg.
November 29, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Watched the Martha Stewart documentary; didn’t really get it before but kinda stan now.
Love to spend my dotage tending a garden and getting high with Snoop Dogg.
Love to spend my dotage tending a garden and getting high with Snoop Dogg.
A real slap in the face during my lecture; someone laughed they weren’t born when 9/11 happened.
November 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
A real slap in the face during my lecture; someone laughed they weren’t born when 9/11 happened.
Enjoyed Wicked but one of the worst cinema experiences I’ve had. Why pay all that money to act like you’re in your front room?
November 27, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Enjoyed Wicked but one of the worst cinema experiences I’ve had. Why pay all that money to act like you’re in your front room?
This week, four students commented they love my module and teaching 🥹
November 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
This week, four students commented they love my module and teaching 🥹
Gran today: It's sad that John Prescott died, but he was a knob cos he kicked us off a table we booked at Chinese restaurant once, and his wife is a snob.
November 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Gran today: It's sad that John Prescott died, but he was a knob cos he kicked us off a table we booked at Chinese restaurant once, and his wife is a snob.
I’d like to see a national-marketing campaign on taking backpacks off on public transport.
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 AM
I’d like to see a national-marketing campaign on taking backpacks off on public transport.
Please, can a UK newspaper have their own version of connections. The American idioms do my head in.
November 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Please, can a UK newspaper have their own version of connections. The American idioms do my head in.
Gladiator 2 is ok but Ridley Scott has just kinda remade the first one.
November 16, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Gladiator 2 is ok but Ridley Scott has just kinda remade the first one.
Incred episode of drag race. If there was ever a week for no one to go…
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Incred episode of drag race. If there was ever a week for no one to go…