The Imperial & Global Forum, Centre for Imperial & Global #History @ExeterClio. Blogging about all things imperial & global, past and present. @MWPalen, Editor
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31 Oct 2024
Anytown Joins Lobby For Fairer Deal For World’s Poor”: Mass Lobbies Against World Poverty in Thatcher’s Britain
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5 Nov 2024
The 1981 & 1985 mass lobbies represent a pragmatic & arguably effective effort by #NGOs, churches, & concerned citizens to challenge the government’s #neoliberal agenda.
Just how effective were these efforts? imperialglobalexeter.com/202… with @ExeterCIGH. #Twitterstorians #History
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4 Nov 2024
News! I am delighted to have been promoted to Book Reviews Editor @Global_IH. I will commission, co-ordinate, & edit reviews, review articles, book forum special issues, & more. If you are interested in reviewing a title, do contact me at my GIH email: tandfonline.com/journals/rgi…
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4 Nov 2024
The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today!
Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
4 Nov 2024
RJISSF Roundtable 16-11: Jonathan Hunt’s The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
“Hunt also explores the way in which the changed international climate in the era of decolonization provided openings and opportunities for smaller powers to leverage these negotiations” –Sean L. Malloy
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“possibly the best single-volume history on the subject.” 🥳👇👇
4 Nov 2024
The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today!
Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
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31 Oct 2024
Professor @RichardToye from @exeterclio appears in this new documentary about #Churchill, showing on @netflix next month
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30 Oct 2024
1/5 @RobertJenrick's argument that descendants of the enslaved and colonised should be grateful is a work of breathtaking doublethink.
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1 Nov 2024
I was delighted to be interviewed as part of this upcoming 'Churchill At War' documentary for Netflix. All four parts of Churchill at War premiere on Netflix on December 4 and you can view the trailer at youtu.be/w5Ot8acAbsg. #Churchill #NetflixDoc #WinstonChurchill
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31 Oct 2024
Anytown Joins Lobby For Fairer Deal For World’s Poor”: Mass Lobbies Against World Poverty in Thatcher’s Britain
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31 Oct 2024
#GlobalHistory #Twitterstorians
I’m delighted to officially announce - with my co-editor @CianTMcMahon - the publication of a double SPECIAL ISSUE of @JournlAmEthHist:
🌎’Globalizing Irish America’🌍
This issue consists of 2 conceptual themes #GlobalNetworks #GlobalCities
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28 Oct 2024
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History imperialglobalexeter.com/202… via @ExeterCIGH
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28 Oct 2024
From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. imperialglobalexeter.com/202… with @ExeterCIGH. #Imperialism #ImperialHistory #BritishHistory #Empire
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26 Oct 2024
From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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17 Oct 2024
I am a historian based in London and am available for freelance research work. If there are any documents you would like to consult in London archives but unable to visit, I am happy to photograph or transcribe them. Please contact me if you’re looking for a research assistant
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15 Oct 2024
New free online course: Masterclass PhD application. After this short course you should be able to:
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16 Oct 2024
What you are trying to avoid is a situation where the person reading the chapter gets to the end, reads your conclusion, and thinks, “Oh, so that’s what they were trying to tell me! Why didn’t they mention it earlier?” 👉 linkedin.com/pulse/how-write…. #PHD #PHDChat #PHDLife
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25 Oct 2024
The deployment of 10,000 North Korean troops to Russia is an embarrassing comedown for Moscow, bad news for Ukraine, and a very scary development for South Korea and the rest of the world, FP’s @KFJ_FP writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/23…
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