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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📢 Looking for a book about empire, colonialism, & its long legacy for a course this autumn? Check out these new pbs from @alanlester.bsky.social, @mark-condos.bsky.social & @amalkc.bsky.social. @eriklinstrum.bsky.social, @garethknapman.bsky.social, @bickers.bsky.social, @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Paperback book covers for 'Prisoners of Empire', 'Empire with a Vengeance,' and 'The Truth about Empire' on a blue background.

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🇮🇷 R. Templer’s ‘The Shah’s Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed’ reviewed in the Aug issue of @historytoday.com: ‘Remind[s] us that, although the shah & Khomeini agreed on almost nothing, both understood the power of Iran’s cultural nationalism.’ Sample & purchase 👉 tinyurl.com/5ybcwy3a

Shows the print and ebook reader cover of 'The Shah's Party' by Robert Templer in black and gold featuring a b&w historic photo of the Shah lighting his wife's cigarette.

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

See Carla Kaplan’s biography of Decca Mitford, ‘Troublemaker’, finalist for both the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography & the National Book Critics Circle Award 'Book of the Year' @newyorker.com Read a sample & purchase here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc7w4jrw

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thanks to the @deutschewelle.dw.com team for the long interview on China's reusable rocket achievement, its wider lunar and space infrastructure ambitions, and what other major powers are doing in space. Conveniently it's stuff I go into more depth in Original Sin with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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China's new rocket challenges SpaceX | DW News

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Invention of Cultural Intelligence 'As Gearon notes, the Bureau commissioned many local writers. Its network “included Cairo-based journalists, Syrian and Lebanese émigrés, local intellectuals & strategic allies, a diverse ecosystem of information exchange.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/02/t...

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The Invention of Cultural Intelligence

Many years ago, Eamonn Gearon returned from an epic camel journey across North Africa. He nearly died along the way, surviving in isolation until finally

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

On the trail of the ‘CIA poison plot’ to stop England winning the 1970 World Cup

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am very pleased to say, “La guerra en la era del smartphone: Un nuevo campo de batalla al alcance de nuestras manos” ya está disponible hoy. 29 April 2026 cc: @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @esferalibros.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/0agxuwRm

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just got a really lovely (& unsolicited) review of my book from @matthewrr.bsky.social. It was so flattering that I couldn't help myself but share it. Many thanks Matthew. That made my week! cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/books/review...

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Very pleased to say that my book **War in the Smartphone Age** has made it onto the US National Security Space Institute recommended reading list. cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/PDTqO...

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2026 NSSI Reading List: War in the Smartphone Age

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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The first draft done, research done - the MS exists. Next phase: marking, pruning, compressing, and then handing over to editors/readers. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

'Readers will be spoiled for choice to find motivations for the revolution of 1978 that drove the monarch into exile, in this Tristram Shandy-esque narrative of venality, sycophancy, ineptitude, hubris and cultural myopia.' asianreviewofbooks.com/the-shahs-pa...

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“The Shah’s Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed” by Robert Templer

A worldly Hungarian informed me in 1976, as I was leaving to take up a scholarship in Iran, “I was at the Shah’s 2,500 year celebration.” Astounded, I asked him what it was like. “Like something ou…

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I have a soft spot for the architecture of Stockport. This is the Market Hall, designed and built in cast iron by the ironfounder James Heywood Jr. of Derby in 1861. St Mary's overlooks the marketplace and has a mediaeval chancel but is mostly a rebuild of 1813-17 by Lewis Wyatt.

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

'Prasad's 'THE DOOM LOOP: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder' contends that changes to the balance of power —the rise of China and India, the waning dominance of the West—have transformed the world economy into an engine for disorder.' HURST www.economist.com/culture/2026...

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Should globalists give up?

A riveting and depressing argument tackled in a new book, “The Doom Loop”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/02/2026

‘She was never content with the view, accepted not only among the aristocracy during her childhood, that “the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate” were part of a divinely ordered social structure.’ Rosemary Hill on a new biography of Jessica Mitford. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rosemary Hill · One of the Worst Things: Jessica Mitford’s Handbag

It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica Mitford called ‘the Mitford...

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

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The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant

Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant

Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Learn more about Theodor Meron's inspiring story 'A Thousand Miracles' here: tinyurl.com/4dx6326t

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is a glorious book by the way

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

www.the-tls.com/culture/food... ‘An infectiously enthusiastic herringist-in-chief, Graeme Rigby has produced a book that will doubtlessly convert others to the cause. . . Surprises and idiosyncrasies . . . are much of the pleasure.’— @thetls.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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An ‘infectiously enthusiastic’ history of herring

When, in the early 1950s, Birds Eye tested a new frozen fish product for the British market, the cod fish finger was only ever intended as a bland control

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The surreal drama of Helsinki’s history Henrik Meinander tells the story of a city ravaged by plague, fire, war and occupation being constantly rebuilt and resettled over five centuries. spectator.com/article/the-...

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The surreal drama of Helsinki’s history

In 1920, the young Finnish architect Alvar Alto flew over Helsinki for the first time. He was aghast. ‘An aviator can see where the monkeys have been and destroyed so very much,’ he recalled. Alto’s a...

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

'The domains of the Habsburgs formed a political and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.' Lovely review in the WSJ of luka Jukic's recent book on the history of Central Europe, from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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‘Central Europe’ Review: Continental Divide

The domains of the Habsburgs formed a political and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.

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Martin Thorley @methorley.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Received a special delivery: ‘All That Glistens: Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain’ with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social Expect to see some reviews and interviews next week. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/all-tha...

A box containing newly printed copies of “All That Glistens”.

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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Looking for a Christmas gift for a keen traveller, South America enthusiast or anyone interested in lost British histories? #SmallEarthquakes is available for half price in the @hurstpublishers.bsky.social sale until midnight tomorrow (9 December) 🎁 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/small-e...

The front cover of Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America

A graphic with info on Hurst’s 50% off sale

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

👀Troublemaker by @cktroublemaker.bsky.social is out of stock with some retailers. But you can order for immediate despatch at 50% off until midnight December 9th directly from Hurst (and support an indie publisher in doing so!) A @newyorker.com and Kirkus Book of the Year 👉 tinyurl.com/3z8zha7jA

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🐟 'Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring' is ‘A prodigious achievement, by turns erudite and great fun' @thespectator1828.bsky.social. It's out of stock with some retailers, but you can grab your copy at 50% off until midnight tonight directly from us ➡️ tinyurl.com/59kj4xxe

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In Unbroken Chains @hurstpublishers.bsky.social former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals the extraordinary length and scope of African slavery and how ingrained it is in many societies. iol.co.za/sunday-tribu...

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Africa’s shame: its hidden role in the slave trade

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals to the general reade...

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

What might the modern progressive learn from Jessica Mitford? This intriguing question is posed by Troublemaker, a new biography of the writer known to friends and family more simply as “Decca”. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/11/jess...

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Jessica Mitford: faux-progressive troublemaker

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

To the end of her life, Decca had the daunting blue gaze, pure upper-class accent and ruthless, exploitative charm of a true Mitford. Kaplan’s account is solid, even-handed and, in the end, impressive.' www.spectator.co.uk/article/jess...

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Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously

Can there really be any point in yet another fat book about one of the Mitford sisters? Their antics have been appearing in print since the late 1940s, when the eldest – clever, waspish Nancy – displa...

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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

'In this first-rate biography, professor Carla Kaplan re-examines the life of Jessica Mitford, a young woman born into wealth and privilege who traded her aristocratic position for communist politics.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social quillette.com/2025/11/25/r...

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Red Sheep

An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

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