Kieran Hazzard
@kieranhazzard.bsky.social
Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
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Kieran Hazzard
@kieranhazzard.bsky.social
· Nov 11
14 The Clives at Home: Self-Fashioning, Collecting, and British India
14 The Clives at Home: Self-Fashioning, Collecting, and British India was published in Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 on page 223.
www.degruyter.com
My chapter on Robert Clive, loot, and the country house, can be found online via De Gruyter.
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With Karel Williams of Foundational Economy a call for a new way of doing things, starting with water ... www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Labour's conformism is crushing Britain
Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite
www.newstatesman.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
With Karel Williams of Foundational Economy a call for a new way of doing things, starting with water ... www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Over at the Oxford Union tonight: was the British Empire good or bad? If only there was an entire field of scholarship which could address this question! (Or tell you it's a silly question).
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Over at the Oxford Union tonight: was the British Empire good or bad? If only there was an entire field of scholarship which could address this question! (Or tell you it's a silly question).
Awesome discovery, and in county record offices!
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Awesome discovery, and in county record offices!
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Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants
The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
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“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
Me, every time Google suggests an AI summary.
August 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Me, every time Google suggests an AI summary.
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Publication day!!
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
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Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.
boydellandbrewer.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Publication day!!
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
"His former home, Powis Castle in Wales, contains hundreds if not thousands of objects that he took."
Not defending Clive, obviously. BUT he never lived at Powis and his collection of countably hundreds of objects contains a small amount of loot. Most was purchased or received as a (complex) gift.
Not defending Clive, obviously. BUT he never lived at Powis and his collection of countably hundreds of objects contains a small amount of loot. Most was purchased or received as a (complex) gift.
Labour peer calls for removal of Clive of India statue from outside Foreign Office
Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past ‘historically inaccurate’ bronze
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"His former home, Powis Castle in Wales, contains hundreds if not thousands of objects that he took."
Not defending Clive, obviously. BUT he never lived at Powis and his collection of countably hundreds of objects contains a small amount of loot. Most was purchased or received as a (complex) gift.
Not defending Clive, obviously. BUT he never lived at Powis and his collection of countably hundreds of objects contains a small amount of loot. Most was purchased or received as a (complex) gift.
One of those articles where you read it and keep saying 'yes, exactly!"
I've had it with data.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-po...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-po...
Against Polling
It's 90% Bullshit
www.unpopularfront.news
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of those articles where you read it and keep saying 'yes, exactly!"
Second journalist in the last week to assert that the empire meant nothing to the average Brit! That it was just an elite game.
Which is really WEIRD. Because historians have spent the last 30+ years proving the exact opposite!
Which is really WEIRD. Because historians have spent the last 30+ years proving the exact opposite!
August 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Second journalist in the last week to assert that the empire meant nothing to the average Brit! That it was just an elite game.
Which is really WEIRD. Because historians have spent the last 30+ years proving the exact opposite!
Which is really WEIRD. Because historians have spent the last 30+ years proving the exact opposite!
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We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) - RHS
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death, on Saturday, of Professor Peter Marshall, former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London and President of the Royal Historical Socie...
bit.ly
July 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians
I professionally hate this.
"Lady Henrietta, a 19th-century rock chick...at a time when it was virtually unheard of for a woman from the aristocracy to get her hands dirty, Lady Henrietta Antonia was a pioneer"
Though there are issues with the currently fashionable "imperial crimes DISCOVERED" article, it's better than this
Though there are issues with the currently fashionable "imperial crimes DISCOVERED" article, it's better than this
Laid bare the passions and obsessions of Lady Henrietta, a 19th-century rock chick
WITH an entourage of 700 people, 20 elephants and numerous bodyguards, the Countess of Powis was no ordinary rock collector.
www.walesonline.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I professionally hate this.
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all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
I was researching institutional colonial legacies in 2020 when many roles like this were created in the US & UK in response to the George Floyd protests. I worried at the time if there would be lasting a commitment to such research. Seems not.
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I was researching institutional colonial legacies in 2020 when many roles like this were created in the US & UK in response to the George Floyd protests. I worried at the time if there would be lasting a commitment to such research. Seems not.
Incredible collection of Indian art on display in Delhi at the moment. And happily beautifully reproduced online.
A Treasury of Life
A Treasury of Life Produced by Indian artists working for Western patrons (including East India Company officials) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Company paintings depict a bro...
dagworld.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Incredible collection of Indian art on display in Delhi at the moment. And happily beautifully reproduced online.
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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💷 I spoke with Andrew Marr @lbc.co.uk about how it would cost nearly £0 to put Thames Water into public ownership, not the £billions asserted by water company lobbyists.
💧 This is how we start to clean up our water.
Report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
💧 This is how we start to clean up our water.
Report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
June 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
💷 I spoke with Andrew Marr @lbc.co.uk about how it would cost nearly £0 to put Thames Water into public ownership, not the £billions asserted by water company lobbyists.
💧 This is how we start to clean up our water.
Report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
💧 This is how we start to clean up our water.
Report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
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Nicolas Sprenger delves into the structural violence of empire in this latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled: Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against 'Perpetrator' and 'Victim'.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against ‘Perpetrator and ‘Victim’
The categories of perpetrator and victim are hardwired into how historians have studied the violence of the British Empire. These categories, however, fail to capture the full spectrum of the viole...
www.tandfonline.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Nicolas Sprenger delves into the structural violence of empire in this latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled: Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against 'Perpetrator' and 'Victim'.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"What will they think of next: a festival of Cromwell?" Brilliant quote.
But also, this 'row' is a great illustration of how silly all nations and nationalisms are at their core.
But also, this 'row' is a great illustration of how silly all nations and nationalisms are at their core.
European year of the Normans reopens debate over Irish identity
Ministers approve Ireland’s participation in cultural initiative but Sinn Féin calls commemoration offensive
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"What will they think of next: a festival of Cromwell?" Brilliant quote.
But also, this 'row' is a great illustration of how silly all nations and nationalisms are at their core.
But also, this 'row' is a great illustration of how silly all nations and nationalisms are at their core.
What has he got against George I?
May 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What has he got against George I?
The framers of the US Constitution absolutely had Britain in mind when they wrote the Foreign Emoluments Clause. So it would be HILARIOUSLY apposite if Britain was the cause for impeachment.
Trump’s bid to host golf tournament in Britain could violate US constitution, experts warn
British government’s push for tournament to be at Trump-owned venue in Scotland is likely to seek favor with US
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The framers of the US Constitution absolutely had Britain in mind when they wrote the Foreign Emoluments Clause. So it would be HILARIOUSLY apposite if Britain was the cause for impeachment.
British media. Trump says something: a billion column inches. Two nuclear states threaten each other, and China says “go on, do it” to one of them: silence.
April 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
British media. Trump says something: a billion column inches. Two nuclear states threaten each other, and China says “go on, do it” to one of them: silence.