Robert Peckham
@robertpeckham.bsky.social
Historian and author of 'FEAR: An Alternative History of the World' (Profile, 2023) + ‘Epidemics in Modern Asia’ (CUP, 2016). New York.
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So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Delighted to have spoken to Kevin Bennett about FEAR on The Big Smoke podcast.
The Big Smoke Variety Show: The Season of Fear
Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show!This week, we walk through the fog of fear, meet courage on the street corners of London, and follow the rivers that carry us home.First up, Kevin sits down wi...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Delighted to have spoken to Kevin Bennett about FEAR on The Big Smoke podcast.
Enjoyed reading ‘Modern Flu’ by @mcbresalier.bsky.social Review out in @isisjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1086/735752
doi.org/10.1086/735752
Michael Bresalier. Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890–1950. xxviii + 458 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Palgrave Macmillan London, 2023. €139.99 (cloth); I...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Enjoyed reading ‘Modern Flu’ by @mcbresalier.bsky.social Review out in @isisjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1086/735752
doi.org/10.1086/735752
Grateful to Tomasz Targański for the conversation about fear, published in the Polish magazine Polityka.
Krótkie dzieje strachu. Lęk to wielogłowa hydra, narzędzie władzy, potężna siła
Ludźmi od wieków rządzono przez strach, Kościół miał ich wyzwolić od lęku, a zaczął go podtrzymywać – mówi Robert Peckham, autor książki „Strach. Inna historia świata”.
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March 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Grateful to Tomasz Targański for the conversation about fear, published in the Polish magazine Polityka.
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Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities
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March 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities
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Ya lo dice @robertpeckham.bsky.social: La libertad da miedo. Y dejar que otros decidan por nosotros tiene sus consecuencias. Una entrevista al historiador británico para @elpais.com @elpaisamerica.bsky.social
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Robert Peckham, historiador: “La libertad da miedo”
El ensayista británico afirma que la gente prefiere que otros decidan por ellos. Sostiene que los temores que asociamos a la pandemia hoy se han diluido en otros nuevos
elpais.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ya lo dice @robertpeckham.bsky.social: La libertad da miedo. Y dejar que otros decidan por nosotros tiene sus consecuencias. Una entrevista al historiador británico para @elpais.com @elpaisamerica.bsky.social
elpais.com/ideas/2025-0...
elpais.com/ideas/2025-0...
The Polish edition of Fear is now out and circulating. Many thanks again to the translator Aleksandra Ożarowska and to the team at Znak.
November 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The Polish edition of Fear is now out and circulating. Many thanks again to the translator Aleksandra Ożarowska and to the team at Znak.
#Propagandopolis featured in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures
Drugs, war, apartheid and the environment are some of the themes covered in the book Propagandopolis, which charts a century of efforts to influence and control
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November 12, 2024 at 1:31 PM
#Propagandopolis featured in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Just came across this photograph of Lisandro Otero, James Baldwin and Arthur Miller in my grandfather’s archive, from a meeting on world peace held in the Soviet Union in October 1986, convened by the Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. #JamesBaldwin #WorldPeace
September 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Just came across this photograph of Lisandro Otero, James Baldwin and Arthur Miller in my grandfather’s archive, from a meeting on world peace held in the Soviet Union in October 1986, convened by the Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. #JamesBaldwin #WorldPeace
Delighted to have contributed an introduction (‘Fear, Truth and the Spectacular History of Propaganda’) to #Propagandopolis by Bradley Davies, published by the always-innovative FUEL and out 10 October. #propaganda #history #art
September 24, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Delighted to have contributed an introduction (‘Fear, Truth and the Spectacular History of Propaganda’) to #Propagandopolis by Bradley Davies, published by the always-innovative FUEL and out 10 October. #propaganda #history #art
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Paperback copies of Spectacles of Waste @politybooks.bsky.social have at last wended their way to far-off Sydney. Tempted as I was to send a picture from the beach, this will have to do. The 'excremental turn' in history of science and medicine and STS, gradually seeping out
#STS #histsci #histstm
#STS #histsci #histstm
August 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Paperback copies of Spectacles of Waste @politybooks.bsky.social have at last wended their way to far-off Sydney. Tempted as I was to send a picture from the beach, this will have to do. The 'excremental turn' in history of science and medicine and STS, gradually seeping out
#STS #histsci #histstm
#STS #histsci #histstm
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This timely and erudite study by Robert Peckham explores how fear has been used to both assert & challenge authority during the last 700 years: “fear becomes a lens for reconsidering what power is & how it works”.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Anne Michaels and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from a Booker-longlisted novel to a history of the Oxford English Dictionary
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September 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This timely and erudite study by Robert Peckham explores how fear has been used to both assert & challenge authority during the last 700 years: “fear becomes a lens for reconsidering what power is & how it works”.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...