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Edoardo Vaccari

@edoardovaccari.bsky.social
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I study ideas in history. Visiting fellow at @lsehy.bsky.social Pronounced ai·doh·aar·do

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In 'The “Ventotene Moment”: Revolutionary Federalism in World War II Europe', @edoardovaccari.bsky.social revisits one of the founding texts of European federalism and asks how it has been remembered—and misunderstood. Read in full here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #ww2 #europe #history #lse
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
very cool CfP on the history & historiographies of the New Left: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Do apply for the best graduate conference in the Eurasian landmass: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/plain-text-p...
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Call for Papers 2026
The 17th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Vice, Corruption, and Decay in the History of Political Thought Univeristy College London 11th-12th June, 2026 The pro…
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
How has the meaning of #revolution changed over time? The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Review by @edoardovaccari.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How has the meaning of #revolution changed over time? The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Review by @edoardovaccari.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
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How the meaning of revolution has changed over time - LSE Review of Books
The Revolution to Come by Dan Edelstein is a sweeping intellectual history of “revolution,” tracing how it evolved from ancient Greece to Leninist Russia.
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This was a fun one to read and review!
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Madeleine Milburn Agency @mmagency.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
SO excited to announce that INVISIBLE RIVALS by the brilliant @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social publishes today! 'Working across philosophy, evolutionary biology, public policy, and politics, Invisible Rivals is unlike any other book I’ve read.’ - Devi Sridhar
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History of Political Thought Graduate Conference @history-thought.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Our next panel is architecture and the state with papers from Thomas Griffiths (KCL), Bene Colenbrander (EUI) and Eli Frankel (Chicago).
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History of Political Thought Graduate Conference @history-thought.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces! The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June. Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
What is it we mean when we talk about "social democracy"? Here, Renewal editors past and present reflect on the meaning of social democracy, and what it means to be a social democrat. renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...
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Renewal editors reflect on the meaning of social democracy
Renewal is a journal of social democracy, but social democracy has always been a contested concept - and one understood variously as an ideology, a movement, a historical phenomenon, or even a desired...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 30/04/2025
As European nations discuss closer defence collaboration, a document proposing a federal Europe has become the subject of heated arguments.
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Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists
As European nations discuss closer defence collaboration, a document proposing a federal Europe has become the subject of heated arguments.
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Giorgia Meloni dismissed the Ventotene Manifesto as a socialist relic. The left rushed to defend it but both sides risk distorting its meaning. I wrote for The Conversation about the political struggle over one of Europe’s most contested historical texts theconversation.com/ventotene-ma...
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Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists
As European nations discuss closer defence collaboration, a document proposing a federal Europe has become the subject of heated arguments.
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Su Pandora Rivista trovate la mia recensione dell’ultimo libro di Mark Lilla: uno sguardo critico su storia, politica e idee. www.pandorarivista.it/articoli/ign...
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“Ignorance and Bliss. On Wanting Not to Know” di Mark Lilla - Pandora Rivista
Mark Lilla riflette sul perché sembriamo possedere un’inarrestabile tendenza a nascondere verità scomode dietro narrazioni artefatte.
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Becca Palmer @beccapalmer99.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
On the committee for this conference - should be a great two days of discussions!
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
An excellent new article by Max Fenner: "Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964," Modern Intellectual History (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social bit.ly/4jwDkEB
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Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964
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History of Political Thought Graduate Conference @history-thought.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We're delighted to share our Call for Papers for the 16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, on the theme of ‘States and Spaces' (19th-20th June, LSE). Deadline for submissions is 14 March! For more details: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers 2025: States and Spaces in the History of Political Thought
16th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Keynote speaker: Dr. Faridah Zaman (Oxford) Location: Room 2.06, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE…
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Join us this Wednesday at Senate House for the first History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar of 2025! We're thrilled to welcome Chris Cooper-Davies (Oxford) as our speaker. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/events/moham... @ihr.bsky.social
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Mohamad Jawad Chirri, the Lebanese Diaspora in North America, and the Politics of Global Shi’ism Before 1979
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social 's piece tackles 'the wall between history and philosophy' as the ultimate frontier to breach—a bold and intriguing challenge that historians must confront www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
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Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I’m thrilled to see that my first article, 'Britain’s Whiz Kids' is finally out in British Politics. I’d love to tell you more about what you can find in the article. 🧵 In brief: managerialism was introduced to Britain in the 1960-70s through the CPRS and PAR, not the 1980s. doi.org/10.1057/s412...
Britain’s whiz kids: the PAR, CPRS and managerialism in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s
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Abstract: Recent scholarship on managerialism in the United States has identified an alternative genealogy for concepts commonly associated with neoliberalism. This article uses this new lens and original historical research to re-evaluate two British administrative institutions from the 1970s, the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) and Programme Analysis and Review (PAR). Building on the existing literature on managerialism in Britain, the article argues for a revised periodisation that understands the CPRS and PAR as not just ill-fated administrative reforms, but rather as part of an early and largely successful attempt to import managerialist ideas into British public administration. This new analysis provides a more accurate account of these reforms and improves understanding of the actors, institutions and ideas behind the introduction of managerialism. The article frames managerialism as part of a wider political agenda, reflected in both privatisation and civil service reform, not a mere technocratic exercise. The active politicisation of these reforms in Britain had profound implications for the future of British governance.
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Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@jhideas.bsky.social www.jhiblog.org/2024/09/12/w...
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What Direction for the History of Socialist Ideas? Reflections from the Socialist Ideas of Europe in the World Conference at LSE
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