nickmegoran.bsky.social
@nickmegoran.bsky.social
Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“The scandal of a liberal arts education is that it’s not about giving people what they want. It’s about challenging the wants themselves, and ultimately to form and direct those wants and desires otherwise.” Superb essays on why we should not treat students as consumers.
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Been reading my copy of @ingridagnete.bsky.social 's new book, hot off the press. Superb account of the creation of 'the Arctic' as a region by peopled state bureaucracies.
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Daily Mail front page today get's Sweden in wrong places, forgets it is part of NATO, and totally misses out Norway. @ingridagnete.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Found this image from the 2019 general election in an old folder. Still hoping that the bright future will begin soon...
February 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Do churches promote peacemaking or exacerbate conflict? Join the conversation at St John's College, durham, on Feb 19th.
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Course it is, mate... Although you were very happy to tell me how many people died in the US invasion of Iraq. And of course you'd rather talk about something else.
February 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ways to make marking more fun: for each essay complete, move a penny from one pile to the other. Any other suggestions?
February 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM