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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Join us tonight for our conversazione, GLOBAL HISTORY: WHAT NEXT?, at the Imperial and World History Seminar at the IHR, with Erika Melek Delgado, Richard Drayton, Toby Green, Chloe Ireton, and me - 5:30 pm, Pollard Room, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London. @ihr.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

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Chika Tonooka @chikatonooka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just set up Bluesky... because my book is now out in the US and as an e-book. (Coming to the UK on 1 December!) 30% discount code P329 at press.princeton.edu. @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Rival Civilisations

How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian power

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

THE SHAH'S GREAT TOUR has a cover (and please judge the book by it...) - out on 8 October! @lsehy.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

David Motadel - The Shah's Great Tour Global Monarchy in the Imperial Age À paraître en octobre aux Oxford UP

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Complete University Guide is a leading, independent online platform that ranks UK higher education institutions and helps prospective students choose universities and courses. See the rankings here: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table... #CompleteUniversityGuide #history #lse

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

THE SHAH'S GREAT TOUR has a cover (and please judge the book by it...) - out on 8 October! @lsehy.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely thrilled about the publication of the new edition of GLOBALE MONARCHIE by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung). Very affordable! The English translation of the book is in progress...: www.bpb.de/shop/buecher... @lsehy.bsky.social @bpb.de

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Stefan Ihrig @stefanihrig.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I didn't want to post about it while the war is going on, but the haters in Turkey are already running very hot... My new book, coming out in June, Germans and Turks—A Forgotten History of Europe (and it's very different from what the haters expect...) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/germans-a...

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Germans and Turks

German-Turkish relations form an integral backdrop to many of today's most pressing political concerns, including the absorption of refugees from the Middle Eas…

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last night we hosted our event ‘Global Capitalism: A Roundtable’. Two experts in the field, Sven Beckert and Alessandro Stanziani, joined us alongside our own Dina Gusejnova and David Motadel (chair for the event) to discuss their new books. #capitalism #history #event #lse

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Please join us this afternoon at LSE: GLOBAL CAPITALISM: A ROUNDTABLE: Sven Beckert (Harvard) and Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS) will discuss their new books ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Earth Capital’: Monday, 23 March 2026, 4-6pm, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, Room CKK.2.06: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Join us on Monday 23 March for an exciting roundtable discussion on the history of global capitalism! We have two world leading academics joining us to speak on their new books. Read more and register here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... #capitalism #colonialism #event #history #lse

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Looking forward to discussing the history of trans-imperial revolutionary networks in Eurasia, 1905-1909, at the Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar at Cambridge tonight, 5pm, with Kayhan Nejad. Please join! More infos here: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/lent

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Lent | Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminars for Lent Term 2026

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Lent | Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminars for Lent Term 2026

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s finally done. Absolutely thrilled to have submitted THE SHAH'S GREAT TOUR – my global microhistory of the epic royal journeys of Persia's monarchs to Imperial Europe – for production. May it reshape our understanding of monarchy and the world order in the imperial age.

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you Sadiah, remember our discussions about the book at the Birmingham research seminar - ten or more years ago:)

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you:) I look forward to reading your work!

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you, Alex - we should have a workshop at one point

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It marks the end of a 20-year odyssey, mining more than 50 archives across 15 countries; the result is a 400k word text, supported by 5k footnotes. My thanks to all who supported me on this journey. @wiko-berlin.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looking forward to launching @faisaldevji.bsky.social‘s "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam", with Karthick Ram Manoharan, in London today, Tuesday, 11 February, 5pm. Join us! More Infos here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wanin...

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Delighted about the publication of THE MAKING OF IRANIAN MODERNITY (Ilex via Harvard University Press), our Festschrift for the great Houchang E. Chehabi. @lsehy.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @bupardeeschool.bsky.social

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s) Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)

Book cover of “Islam and Nazi Germany’s War” by David Motadel

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MatHae @mathae.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Neuerscheinung: "Das gelebte Europa!" Ich freue mich übermäßig, dass dieses von Florian Greiner und mir herausgegebene Themenheft heute erschienen ist - mit fünf großartigen Beiträgen, von Abolitionskampagnen über Wein und Versicherungen bis hin zu faschistischen Netzwerken und Siedlerkolonien...

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A real pleasure! Thank you for your fantastic comment.

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Islam is part of European history www.byteseu.com/1555420 Edwin Lord Weeks’s Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba (1880). Image by Bridgeman Images In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, …

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Islam is part of European history - Bytes Europe

In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, lamenting that Europeans

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Anaclet Pons @clionauta-ap.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Today, the popular view prevails that Muslims have never been part of European history. It is an environment in which populist right-wing polemics critical of Muslim migration can reach a receptive a mass audience. By David Motadel www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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Islam is part of European history

Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions

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