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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A glass of Uruguayan Tannat (with fond memories of Montevideo) helps when taking the second dozen of University Essentials courses online and preparing for Open Day (apparently a sunny Saturday...).

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the Scottish Borders in late August: Arnton Fell and Blackwood Hill near Newcastleton. Did not meet a single soul for a whole day.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Solar eclipse in Newcastle without special glasses, and then clouds ten minutes before the climax. Well, hope it will be better in 2090, and then I will definitely get these glasses...

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Honored to say the my book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea* (Viking) has been shortlisted for the Stone Book Prize awarded by the Museum of African American History (@maahstonebookaward.bsky.social ebookaward.bsky.social). www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/free...

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea — MAAH Stone Book Award

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excellent article on the often invisible attempts by young Iranians to test and shift boundaries and claim what they rightly claim is their: 'the dignity of living freely': www.persuasion.community/p/there-is-a...

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How the War Splits Iranians

U.S. attacks are a gift to regime hardliners.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

¡Viva España! There is justice in this world. The best team won (incredible passes), and what a deserved bronze medal for England! All the tricks to draw penalties, hostility on/off the pitch, and politicization of the game didn't help Argentina; it is possible to win & lose with class (like Messi).

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A little cooler today, but what a WE: climbing Glencoyne Crag (720m), White Stones (795m), Hart Side(756m), and Sheffield Pike (675m), with the Helvellyn Range always in view.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If England wins, let us also have fun and row for a bit to give credit to this classy Norwegian team.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Excellent article (in German): www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/wir.... Do not fight neoliberalism with neoliberal recipes, and do not plunder pension funds to publicly finance the enormous capital needs of the tech oligarchs' data centres. If that bubble bursts, 2008 would be pathetic reminiscence.

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Auf dem Irrweg

Mit neoliberalen Rezepten besteht Deutschland in der Wolfswelt nicht. Es braucht eine völlig neue Wirtschaftspolitik.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And this is the minister who comes from Sunderland and in whom universities had placed so much hope...

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

All host nations out. Sorry for the players, but only really for Canada. Horrible audience in Mexico: cheer on the own team, but do not boo opponents whenever they are on the ball. And then the big scandal; instead of helping the (innocent) US team, pol. interference seemed to have paralysed it.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New book by a leading scholar. See one chapter on constituent and political powers. @ruthhoughton.bsky.social

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What a long WE: first, announcement of 7th PM in 10 years, then 10th anniversary of Brexit (noo link, of course), and finally turning 39+ again. Almost died when climbing in Lake D. from Clough Head (726m) over Great (856m) Watson's (789m), Stybarrow Dodds (843m) to The Raise (883m) in the heat wave

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Congratulations on the 75th birthday, #StAnronysCollegeOxford!! Once an 'Old Antonian', always an (increasingly Elderly) Antonian😉. Great to see the College and its #LatinAmericanCentre again last March; what an impressive development! On the next 75+ years!

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nice Sunday after finishing a book section and large grant application: 1st hike in 8 months. Climb from Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales to Hag Dike Scouts Hostel with UK's highest chapel (467m), Great Whernside (704m) and Blackfell (699m); then steep descent at Tor Dike and up to Cam Head (500m).

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Samuel Huntington's thesis of a clash of civilizations revisited; interesting to read, but also sobering: www.persuasion.community/p/samuel-hun...

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It’s Ideology, Stupid

Why Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis is even more wrong today than it was in 1993.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Colleagues working on Colombia, can anybody help with an online link to Rafael Nuñez's full speech at the inauguration of J. Trujillo on 1 April 1878? I can only find the passage on 'regeneration or catastrophe' or paraphrased summaries. Thank you in advance.

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Manuel Martins @kyubahubba.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Entretanto, a minha dissertação já está disponível nas livrarias em formato impresso, com a colaboração do @nestrangeiro_pt e da Edições Colibri: wook.pt/livro/depois-d…

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Newcastle no longer your friendly airport, justa money machine: no longrr 15 min free parking, no ATM for free £ cash withdrawals, the quiet seating in front of the gates (even TV with flight announcements) gone. People sit on floor..

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Great to be back to Oxford. Happy time here 30 years ago.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My God, what great news! Eventually! How can anybody have ever deprived young people of this chance? Also long overdue step to help universities in an existential crisis that Labour has ignored so far. PM in front of Chairs of committees and not one question by the Education Committee on HE...

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Can anybody help? Which village 'near Breslau'(now Wroclaw) in Prussian Silesia could this be? The individual was born in 1845, and the document is from 1873. It should read 'Kontogg' comparing handwriting, but no such place appears on historical maps. Thanks for trying.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Short WE break between two book chapters during research leave: overcast and foggy, but wonderful to climb Buckden Pike (702m) and on to the War Memorial, Starbutton Hill, and, on a convoluted path, the isolated and moon-like landscape of Tor Mere Top (617m). Long, steep, and in parts peaty and wet.

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Highly interesting documentary on the implications of Brexit (with subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcgp...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won the @aseees.bsky.social Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, honoring the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, & East European studies in the humanities and social sciences! Explore here: hubs.ly/Q03LzMJ

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans

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Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When I order documents from various #c18th investigative commissions at the archives, I most often receive a modest assortment of protocols, petitions, and numerous letters. But occasionally, I get something like this. It’s only about 2300 pages (RA 236 F4-17).

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Big day. Stepping down as Deputy Head of School after 13 years and as Director for Postgraduate Research after 10 years and looking forward to research leave. It has been a pleasure to work with colleagues and our community of UK/international students during an eventful, at times difficult decade.

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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Today is the UK pub date for my book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalebooks.bsky.social‬)! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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I Have Avenged America - Yale University Press London

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rul...

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Today is publication day for my new book,The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, a fresh and deeply researched history of global politics at mid-century. Get your copy now!

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Horrible news, but symptomatic of the contempt for the Humanities.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"Modern Peru," edited by @paulodrinot.bsky.social & Alberto Vergara, offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/dOSbIpS #History #Peru

Cover of Modern Peru: A New History edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara. The design features a bold orange background with large text in white and yellow. In the center is a halftone-style image in burnt orange showing groups of people gathered along a road, with soldiers or police standing in the foreground and crowds in the background. A multicolored border in blue, green, and orange surrounds the image, giving the cover a layered, graphic look.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Save 30% on #NewBook "After Caliban" by Erica James, which examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. buff.ly/YJkZzd9

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Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just visited the unique and moving War Children Museum in Sarajevo, which records the memory of kids who lived through the siege of the city. Leyla, then 11, has failed to get in touch with her friend Astrid, living, in 1994, at 3 Warren Hall Court, Broughton Chester CH4 0SD...

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