As someone with a Christmas book deadline, I can clearly no longer go into supermarkets—too triggering!
Innes M. Keighren
@inneskeighren.bsky.social
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Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
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![J'y ai quelque titre 1°. par tous les ouvrages que j'ai publiés, [????] écrits dans la vue d’être utile 2°. par le tableau que j'ai publié de la situation des anglois dans Les Indes Orientales, ouvrage qui a exigé des rechercher prodigieus et entrainé beaucoup de [frais?].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wcu4e3v45agqytvhfjk2od4d/bafkreiebhfiqjcjiud5n2sy4zvwmounkfqylgifyabslljgzpde23lbl4y)
