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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I refuse to believe that AI can come up with a tight alternate tracklist for Weezer's Red Album.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do find myself wondering where the world might be right now if even a -fraction- of the outrage at what is basically a party line argument with little material power had been levelled at the fact of hundreds of thousands being bombed, snipered, starved and maimed by massive material power.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ Happy to announce that "The Afterwar: Britain's Secret Battle Against Revolutionaries, Rioters and Russians after WWI" is now available to pre-order ‼️ 📚 Support indie booksellers by pre-ordering your copy before 27 Sept to get 20% off with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social @eandtbooks.bsky.social

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some incredibly exciting news! My book about how Liverpool's history makes us think differently about Britain's past, present and future has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One of the (many) silver linings of Starmer being ousted is that there will be a moratorium on interviews being described as ‘surprisingly personal’ when it’s just him lying and repeating the same soundbites ad nauseam.

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Jon Coburn @joncoburn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Actually I can’t let this drop - there must be so much self-loathing among history grads in government. Phillipson obviously feels she got nothing from her undergraduate degree - from Oxford no less - or else she’d be helping other poor kids from Gateshead have the opportunities she had.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A great day at the annual King’s History Teacher’s Network conference yesterday. Thanks to @jamescrossland.bsky.social (@ljmuimpact.bsky.social) for his keynote, and to all the other speakers! @kingshistory.bsky.social

James Crossland (LJMU) delivering his talk.

Ana Paula Lloyd (KCL) delivering her presentation.

Victoria von Conrad (Wembley Technology College) and Claire Hayward (The 6th Form College, Farnborough) during their panel.

Richard Kerridge (Cambridge OCR) delivering his lecture.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Discussing the most influential (and arguably worst) president of the nineteenth century. Give it a listen!

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I've been organising the @kingshistory.bsky.social annual History Teacher's Network conference, which will be next week! Excited to hear talks from teachers, academics and assessment specialists on how we enthuse students to continue studying history.

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Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

⭐⭐ It's publication day for 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South' published by @universitypress.cambridge.org! You can now buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... ⭐⭐

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Both in the same class, actually. They would argue over which side had sovereignty over the parking spaces.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think I taught a Spunklord-Chough once upon a time.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Inspiring stuff from the minister who is technically responsible for Higher Education. Universities may be crumbling but at least we'll be able to discuss it with an AI chatbot.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My review for Andrew Isenberg's 'The Age of the Borderlands' is now available in Slavery & Abolition - a great contribution to scholarship on US empire! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Age of the Borderland: Indians, Slaves and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850

Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2026)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ah, but I remember Very Sensible people saying that Mike Tapp was an important Labour voice? Can it be…?

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Reading people! I'll be speaking at the University of Reading's history seminar series on the 13th of May (4-6pm), with a talk entitled “The Cradle of Manifest Destiny: US Imperialism in the Florida Borderlands, 1783-1837". Come along and hear about some sickly Floridian newspaper editors!

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I have a lot of time for @kateosbornemp.bsky.social; she is a true ally. However, no explanation of the rise of discrimination and violence against LGBT+ people in the UK makes sense without acknolwedging the complicitly and encouragement of the Labour government. 1/

Post from Kate Osborne reading: "The hate is fuelled by Reform and their far right ilk, the media and yes some politicians - we must see it for what it is. Hate, deliberately designed hate to whip us against each other and we must call it out"

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Over the years, Osceola's name would grace such things as towns, a brand of tobacco, and most bizarrely, a chemical supply business. Osceola was absorbed into the settler canon, stripped of his Indigenous identity.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Settlers began to ascribe mythical qualities to Osceola. Fort Moultrie was damaged during the Battle of Fort Sumter, but the press marvelled that Osceola's grave was unscathed, implying some divine intervention.

"The famous Seminole Chief Osceola was buried in Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor. A press correspondent, who recently visited the place, writes: "Inside of Fort Moultrie is Osceola's grave, a plain slab of marble with an iron-rail fence. Everything round it had been knocked to pieces by our shells, but not one had touched it, or even clipped the flowers around his grave. The inscription on it was this: 'To the memory of Osceola, Indian Chieftain, died in Fort Moultrie, 1838.'"

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

He had wished to be buried in Florida, but his captors instead decapitated his corpse and buried him in a white tomb in the grounds of the fort. His head was displayed as a novelty item in a drug store. His grave was inscribed with 'Patriot and Warrior', avoiding mention of his Seminole identity.

'OCEOLA. Patriot and Warrior. Died at Fort Moultrie. January 30th 1838'.

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

While not a mēkko (chief), Osceola coordinated Seminole forces in the war until he was captured under a false white flag by U.S. forces. He was imprisoned at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, dying there in 1838. Before his death, George Catlin managed to paint this portrait of the imprisoned Osceola.

George Catlin - "Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction"

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Editing the final chapter of my book today, which analyses the actions of Osceola in the lead-up to the Second Seminole War. Osceola marshalled the Seminole confederacy to resist removal and personally killed a duplicitous Indian agent, sparking the conflict. Yet, he would become a settler icon. 🗃️

A depiction of Osceola in John Sprague's 'The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida War (1848).

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today, I became a REAL historian of the US (lost my sanity filing a US tax return).

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Pity the haters of the 19th century. With no means of posting scathing online reviews of books they detested, they were reduced to scrawling hateful comments in the front of the book.

'W. Gilmore Simms was the author of this amalgamation of history and romance, which like all hybrids, is a monstrosity.'

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🗞️ Show Me two Postdoctoral Fellowships (1 in history, 1 in political science) from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri!!

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University of Missouri - Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Postdoctoral Fellowships - 2x Postdoctoral Fellowships in History and Political Science | H-Net

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thanks to @jamescrossland.bsky.social for having me on to discuss this grifter. Particularly enjoyed our discussion of the most bonkers confederate statue ever erected and what it tells us about southern memory. Give it a watch!

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Maintaining my principle that I will only go on podcasts hosted by members of the LJMU History Department.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📢 New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS drops this Thursday - Nathan Bedford Forrest and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan. Spoiler: they were a shitshow. Links to podcast in bio 🎧 @edwardmair.bsky.social #history #america

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026 Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Any UK secondary school History teachers who may follow me on here: I will be organising the annual KCL History Teachers' Network conference that will take place this Summer. Get in touch if you want to be looped in! #EduSky

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Always thought there was an interesting American studies PhD in analysing the long shadow of Watergate through representations of Nixon (and other presidents) in The Simpsons.

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a cartoon of homer simpson in a space suit laying down

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson in a space suit laying down

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

When we already knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein, he was given: a cushy Times Radio show, influence over Starmer's Labour Party, the ambassadorship to the US - to name a few things. People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hello and welcome to the Sky News Shit-Hot Political Accountability Hour with me, literally Peter Mandelson’s best friend. Sadly there was nobody less obviously compromised who could host a current affairs show

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"I would claim the friend's privilege to tell Peter that he has been, at best, naïve and foolish, at worst, greedy and duplicitous."
@TrevorPTweets reflects on his friendship with Lord Mandelson amid controversy over the former ambassador's association with Epstein.

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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...

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Lecturer in Early Medieval History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Medieval History on jobs.ac.uk!

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is an example of the intellectual decline in York’s history department since I left!

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Is this because Ali wouldn’t give you a straight answer about the pizzas?

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Becca Palmer @beccapalmer99.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳

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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Perhaps the only thing that can save UK universities: protect jobs or risk more weirdo academics running in by-elections.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/01/2026

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

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