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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣Out now on #firstview! Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social on 'The Many Lives of Edmund Burke: A Historiographical Review' #History #Review #Politics #Thought #Evolution 📜 18thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This historiographical review maps and scrutinizes the interpretative traditions that have grown around Edmund Burke’s thought since the 1790s, identifying three distinctive strands of criticism: the Victorian utilitarian/proto-liberal interpretation, the Namierite analysis of Burke, and the North American natural law tradition. It then turns to the recent archival and contextual scholarship that has largely superseded these schemata – the biographies of F. P. Lock and Richard Bourke, the analysis of J. G. A. Pocock, and the imperial and global perspectives of P. J. Marshall and others – which relocates Burke within the political crises and colonial contexts in which he wrote. This reorientation has been underpinned by the modern editorial projects behind his Correspondence and Writings and speeches. Rather than adjudicating who Burke was, the review traces how successive generations have read, reframed, and instrumentalized his prima facie contradictions, suggesting that his resistance to classification reflects less a defect in the literature than the enduring richness of its subject.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New piece out in The Historical Journal (@historicaljnl.bsky.social ): "The Many Lives of Edmund Burke." Few thinkers have been so thoroughly reinvented by those who claim them. A short thread on why the historiography of Burke is as revealing as the man. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

St Leger Stakes at 250. First contested in 1776, the St Leger is the world's oldest classic horserace. The Marquess of Rockingham owned the horse that won the very first race and was one of the Festival's founders. In fact, the race was almost named the Rockingham Stakes.

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it. Franco’s formative years in Spanish Morocco | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/fra...

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Franco's formative years in Spanish Morocco

It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A light Sunday read on the blessings and evils of Namierite historiography regarding the eighteenth century.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Macmillan played Greece to America’s Rome. Wilson refused Vietnam. Thatcher fought the Falklands regardless of Washington. Blair surrendered for a seat at the table. Starmer inherits the “SR” language, not the leverage. My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

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Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is not a left-right problem. It is a legitimacy crisis. ✍️ Ioannes-Fabbri Chountis explains why commentators eager to look at the Gorton and Denton by-election through the lens of party politics are missing the real lesson. One common thread united the campaigns of both the Greens and Reform.

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The real lesson of Gorton and Denton

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Edward Gibbon’s 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' was published 250 years ago. Its arguments remain as pertinent as ever. Edward Gibbon’s empire | Sumantra Maitra engelsbergideas.com/essays/edwar...

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Edward Gibbon's empire

Edward Gibbon’s 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' was published 250 years ago. Its arguments remain as pertinent as ever.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Suez at 70. The standard morality tale blames Eden’s deception. But the deeper lesson is about alliance asymmetry: Britain discovered it couldn’t rely on the “Special Relationship” to simulate being a great power. My new essay for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Nietzsche believed in slow reading: attentive, effortful, and transformative. This was the essence of his philosophy of reading against the rush of modern life. @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A wonderfully productive day researching in the Wentworth Woodhouse archives, thanks to the remarkable staff and volunteers.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Researching and writing my next article in the library of the Oxford and Cambridge Club. What a privilege.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A 17th-century German physician in Nagasaki noticed something familiar: Japan’s shogun-emperor dyarchy mirrored the pope-emperor relationship he knew from home. My new essay for Engelsberg Ideas traces how different civilisations solved the same constitutional puzzles.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New Year’s gift: a first edition of Albemarle’s two-volume Memoirs of Ld Rockingham & his contemporaries. I can’t wait to get stuck into it.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A familiar affliction: study the eighteenth century long enough and people like Newcastle cease to be historical actors and become personalities, as Sir Lewis Namier observes here. You gossip about them, laugh at them, and, inconveniently, grow fond of them.

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Simone @monalunasimone.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Fashion plate from 1788 showing a man dressed in a green, yellow and crimson striped coat, moiré waistcoat with wide stripes, apple green breeches and striped stockings. Woman dressed in a redingote of white Pékin with green Pékin petticoat, hat 'au bateau renversé' #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory

Young man dressed in a striped coat and waistcoat. Apple-green breeches. Vertically striped stockings. Accessories: hat, walking stick, breloque, shoes with decorated buckles. Woman dressed in a white redingote and apple-green petticoat with white silk fringe. On her head a cornet a la Paysanne, on top of which a 'chapeau au bateau renversé'. Fan in hand. This print is part of the 19th Cahier, 3rd year, from the series "Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises." The series consists of 172 fashion prints, published by Buisson, Paris, 20 November 1786 - 21 December 1789.
Rijksmuseum. Object number P-P-2009-1668A

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Thanks for following, glad to connect! Fan of all things history. But mainly posting on eighteenth-century British political, imperial, and intellectual history, Edmund Burke, Whig political culture, and classical reception.

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Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, with every good hope that the season brings peace, warmth, and moments of genuine rest, and that the year ahead begins with clarity, health, and quiet happiness. 🎄

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2025. Books of the Year 2025 | Engelsberg Ideas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...

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Books of the Year 2025

Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2025.

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We rounded off the reporting period by welcoming a guest blog from @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social examining the importance horse-racing played, in particular at Ascot and Newmarket, in forging the first administration of the marquess of Rockingham... historyofparliament.com/2025/09/04/f...

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From Jockeys to Ministers: How Horse Racing Shaped Rockingham’s First Ministry - The History of Parliament

In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, we welcome Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri from the University of Aberdeen, who considers the importance of horse racing

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In our latest issue, @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social takes a novel look at Edmund Burke's opposition to parliamentary reform, in terms of partisanship and the interplay between domestic and imperial politics. Read free 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Parliament #History

Painting of Edmund Burke
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