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Stuart Carroll

@civsoc.bsky.social
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Historian interested in civil society, violence and emotions.

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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not the end of #Brexit. But it is the beginning of the end.
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Burnham stakes his future on care, electoral reform and Europe in emotional Labour conference speech
PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform in Labour’s manifesto
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If these guys were football hooligans the police would beating the crap out of them.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... In which Eisner uses the dramatic fall in the UK homicide rate in the last 20 years as proof for a Weberian interpretation of history. But isn’t this also the same period when police numbers were slashed and state capacity hollowed out? #skystorians
bbc.co.uk
The Great Crime Mystery - 3. Listen and Learn - BBC Sounds
The risk from violence is the lowest it's probably ever been; how can we keep it that way?
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, excellent piece, but misses the point that some disciplines now encourage the idea that it’s ok to make things up.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Feel sorry for Jason Arday. He’s obviously a smart guy who quickly learned how to work the system. There’s always been a lot of bullshit in academia. It was once mildly irritating. But now we’re telling students that it’s ok to make things up.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/education/ng... Nobody seems to be addressing the most important lesson of this affair. #Sociology is a feeble discipline, lacking intellectual rigour.
theguardian.com
Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Seems sensible.
theguardian.com
Readers reply: Some people want to break up the EU. Why not break up the US?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions looks at secessionary movements on both sides of the pond
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nice bit of sportwashing
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nothing unites the world more than #Argentina
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That #worldcup build up was excruciating let’s hope Public Enemy are playing at half time.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Banners claiming the duchy of Normandy and Guyenne were removed last night.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Enough said…
theguardian.com
‘Rifts began to appear’: Why many Latin Americans want Spain to beat Argentina in the World Cup final
A history of racism and ongoing footballing rivalries have made the choice of which team to get behind in Sunday’s final a charged topic
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I guess what sticks in the progressive craw about #Argentina isn’t the Falklands, but a colonial-settler mentality unable to reckon with its genocidal past, see also Zionists, Afrikaaners and the DUP. Plus they’re also cheats.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
there will always be an England
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
One of the best arguments ever for the British Empire.
theguardian.com
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche
Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Wake me up when the knockout’s begin.
theguardian.com
Germany 7-1 Curaçao: World Cup 2026 – live
Join Daniel Harris for reaction after the World Cup debutants were punished by the four-time winners after grabbing a shock equaliser
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Warning contains nostalgia for University Senate’s and ignorance of continental European systems.
lrb.co.uk
Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can’t wait. One of my few heroes (and a fellow SE Londoner).
theguardian.com
‘He’s inspired generations’: Stormzy to produce biopic about football great Ian Wright
The Crystal Palace, Arsenal and England striker says his life story – now in development with the rapper’s Merky Films – has ‘hard-hitting moments, but in the end I want it to give people hope and joy...
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Poor old #Calvin is much maligned and misinterpreted. A stoic pacifist, who abhorred slavery; an opponent of fanatical biblicism and political tyranny. Unlike #Hegseth he knew his Cicero, Plutarch and Seneca.
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran
The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hayden White…only a hundred years out on the historiography of the French Revolution.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The attraction of #Epstein for male academics apparently 👇🏽
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We’re hiring👇🏽
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York History Department - Academic Jobs
Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This podcast provides further statistical evidence and explains why, contrary to what we’re all told, elite violence reached its peak in England in the period, 1660-1720. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Duels, violence and conflict
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Comforted by Ranke after half my Special Subject failed to turn up yesterday. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Reform’s Carl Schmitt.
theguardian.com
‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments
Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check
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SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany @socresta.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This major Samurai exhibition curated by my friend and colleague, Oleg Benesch, is a must see.
theguardian.com
Samurai review: Japan’s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory
Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... This is definitely the end of #Brexit
theguardian.com
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland will face tariffs from 1 February
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
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Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Needs to happen…
theguardian.com
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just read Fukuyama’s brilliant Origins of Political Order. Guess what, cultural relativists, #earlymodern European states are historically unusual, and that matters today.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The sectarian left is, after all, sectarian.
theguardian.com
Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
👇🏽Martin Wolf’s answer is to rejoin the single market #Brexit
on.ft.com
How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Set piece boredom…
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SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany @socresta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)
Graph showing the number of remissions (pardons) for feuding in the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg in the 1500s.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Zoran Mamdani’s a gooner
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A reminder on your next trip to #China that slavery is not a historical problem.
theguardian.com
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is astonishing. More great reporting from the #ft
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Death toll rises to 119 in Rio de Janeiro drug cartel bust
More than 100 suspects arrested in police operation against Comando Vermelho narcotics gang
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Bravo. Doubt it’s possible to get economic history back into the curriculum though.
engelsbergideas.com
Joel Mokyr's economy of ideas
His explanation of the origins of the Industrial Revolution makes Joel Mokyr a worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Dump it on Farage. Put rejoining the Customs Union in the next manifesto.
theguardian.com
Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact
Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Rejoining the customs union is the best way to call out Farage and isolate Reform.
theguardian.com
We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins
With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Austrian History Yearbook (AHY) @ahy-history.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New on FirstView: Thomas Pert reviews @civsoc.bsky.social's recent book on Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Read about Carroll's important work online now and in print in our 2026 Austrian History Yearbook! #History #EarlyModern #AcademicSky #Germany #Austria tinyurl.com/AHYEnmity
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Stuart Carroll. Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 490. | Austrian History Yearbook | Cambridge Core
Stuart Carroll. Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 490.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Here's Timothy Snyder on why Trump tells so many lies. [SOUND ON 🔊]
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It’s interesting how feeble civil society has proved to be in the US.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
share.google/67AfzMLebCN5... York council. Stop pandering to Fascists.
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The curious case of Joseph Moulton and Flag Force UK | Searchlight
Flying the flag - Joseph Moulton When a 22-year-old presents himself as a seasoned business consultant with international defence sector links, eyebrows are ...
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
All those flags around are just a coincidence, right?
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
York now resembles the Shankill Road. It’ll barbed wire and watchtowers next.
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
An acute critique of cultural history, fashionable Whiggery and an article that has implications for #earlymodern history.
academic.oup.com
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914*
Abstract. This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England a
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Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My sons just released their first album #newmusic
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Captain Starlet
Captain Starlet · Album · 2025 · 7 songs
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